Horror is one thing that Blumhouse does very effectively in its motion pictures, so with its newly based gaming department, it stands to cause that its first launch, Worry the Highlight, would observe go well with. From small gaming studio Cozy Recreation Friends, this can be a love letter to a retro horror gaming style from years previous.
Worry the Highlight stars Amy and Vivian, two stereotypically very totally different women. Amy is your normal goth, obsessive about the occult, with Vivian repping the goody two-shoes nerd to a tee – she even works within the library. One fateful night time, Amy and Vivian break into their faculty after hours to check out the Ouija board within the library’s occult show, and issues go horribly flawed as Amy goes lacking.
Enjoying as Vivian, you’re tasked with discovering Amy, traversing by way of the college and fixing puzzles to unlock new objects and areas. When you full Vivian’s brief playthrough, you’ll be able to then expertise the entire sport once more by way of Amy’s eyes, and discover out what actually occurred to her whereas she was gone.
The puzzles themselves are largely the identical format all through the sport; discover a clue in a single room, journey again to the opposite, full the conundrum, obtain the reward, and discover a approach to the subsequent space. This components does put on fairly skinny after some time because it seems like numerous forwards and backwards; to make issues worse, each women appear to maneuver at a snail’s tempo.
After all, this forwards and backwards isn’t with out consequence both, as each women have a villain of their respective areas who they have to keep away from or have their well being depleted; in Vivian’s case that is her lung capability (due to course she’s asthmatic), and for Amy this is a rise to her stress ranges.
Worry the Highlight actually performs on atmospheric horror somewhat than soar scares or something too psychological, and it does this with nice impact: creepy sounds within the distance, disturbing notes from classmates – every thing provides as much as a bigger, extra unsettling story which actually performs on the thoughts of those that expertise it.
The horror ingredient is extraordinarily effectively carried out all through the sport, and paves the best way for an attention-grabbing story as you progress by way of the sport, however issues can verge on tedious because the gameplay model does really feel very forwards and backwards all through. Luckily, with every run lasting only a few hours, it does not overstay its welcome, and so comes really useful in the event you like this period of horror video games.
