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With barely over a week left before halloween, I figured its about time to do some horror gaming. I usually stay my lane and play my favorite series Fatal Frame or Silent Hill because they're great speed runs for me and I just adore both series.
Though there's tons of games I really would love to play that I haven't yet. This isn't my entire hitlist for horror games I haven't yet dipped my toes into yet, but its a small list to start from as they're games I do have on deck that I haven't quite touched yet.
Calling (Hudson Soft)--Wii
First up is one I really have been sitting on for years since a friend bought it for my birthday years ago. She knew I liked horror games, and I've been itching to scratch this off a backlog.
Something like a mix between classic J-horror, Fear.com, and One Missed Call, this game sets a collection of characters investigating a paranormal webpage and using their cellphones to navigate and speak with spirits.
I'm a sucker for odd paranormal investigations tools in games, like cameras, vacuums, and of course cellphones, so this tickled me immensely. I also enjoy motion controls, which to me is just an easier VR system without the associated threat of motion sickness (the opening party scene alone in Cloverfield was hard for me to get through due to my motion sickness).
Firing up the wii (yes, I still have mine, plugged in to boot!) for this little gem seems like a great diversion this week.
Resident Evil 7....BUT IN VR! (Capcom)--PS4
Well, as aforementioned, there's a pretty good reason why I actually haven't played this entirely (I've tried the standard version for roughly 30 minutes when a friend lent it to me): I get violently motion sick sometimes. Even watching long full throughs of this game is a bit hard on me.
But fuck it, if I'm gonna have motion sickness, I might as well go whole hog right? We sadly don't have a unit anymore for the PS4 currently but its not as if I couldn't borrow one. Of all the games available in VR, this is the one I really want to be immersed in.
Maybe its just me, but I really LOVED everything about 7, and I felt it was a great stepping stone and hardware/software experiment that led to making RE2 Remake looks fucking outstanding. As i like to joke, its a better PT than PT. The lighting effects alone are stellar.
Lookit that happy family.
Lunacy (Atlus)--Sega Saturn
Of all the games on this backlog, this may well be the oldest, as this came out in NA back in '97. Its more of a suspense game, more in the vein of Myst rather than an outright horror game. Its a pretty good teaser into games like D, which I also would LOVE to play one day if I could get my hands on a copy.
This game has literally sat in my game shelf for over a decade when I picked it up at a second hand seller years ago. My Saturn usually gets dusted off twice a year, and usually only for NiGHTS.
Fred the amnesiac has to figure out what is going on around him and find the fabled City of Moons. FMV point and clicks weren't really games I played when I was younger but I would like to one day try a few out.
Luigi's Mansion (Nintendo)--Gamecube
I actually never played the first game for the Gamecube, but I did play the second for the DS, Dark Moon. I used to be a huge Luigi fan when I was a kid, so when I heard he'd have his own game (nope, never tried Mario is Missing either; my SNES was a JRPG mule back then XD), I was pretty psyched. I never ended up picking it up
though since my GC actually became dedicated to multiplayer RPGs and eventually an Animal Crossing only machine (who can blame me XD).
Sucking up ghosts with a vacuum was ingenious and I think cameras are the best supernatural weapon to happen to horror games XD. I do plan on popping the GC game in at some point, and I'm of course snapping up the 3rd game when it hits the Switch near the end of the month.
Until then, I guess I can sate my thirst on playing it in the arcade, which Choco and Decon can attest: that game is harder than House of the Dead. XD!
Detention (Red Candle Games)--Switch
Its been on my Switch wishlist for awhile, and I just might snap this up today after some Inktober. A slightly different take on the horror genre, which one draws on real world events that are arguable much more horrifying than evil spirits. This game takes place during Taiwan's White Terror events, which draws on the martial law period the country had gone through between the late 40s to the late 80s.
A side scroller, this one looks really promising, with chase sequences and terrifying mysteries. I'm really excited to try it hopefully very soon.
I also am very intrigued to experience Taiwanese myths and culture through this game, since it plays a lot of the political atmosphere and mythology close to the heart. Not having very much experience of knowledge of either, I'm keen to learn more as I play and maybe do more research on it. I've heard there was a novel and a live action film based on it, so I hope to track those down too one day.
I'm excited to get these onto a docket, and while I may not finish them by Halloween, I'm happy to at least get a taste of them. :3
--Dio (10/22/19)
Detention image from Nintendolife.com.
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