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Topic	THE Snake Ranks Anything Horror Related (Vol. 5) 5th Anniversary RANKINGS
Snake5555555555 10/03/20 7:40:26 PM #60:	122. Pagui (Taiwanese Horror) (10.5 points) Nominated by: ihatethiscpu (3/5 remaining) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1FyWV_qKfw Importance: 1 Fear: 5 Snake: 4.5 Yet another example of horror in another culture, one I'm slightly more familiar with thanks to the likes of games like Detention & Devotion, but one that could definitely use even more exposure than it already has. I'll give it to the game: when it wants to, it certainly builds up an effectively creepy atmosphere with its haunted town setting and various granny jump scares that work as well as they do thanks to surreal lighting & a dream-like texture to their events. Playing from a child's perspective, you even imagine that not everything you see is what's actually happening, adding another layer to the horror. These are all fine qualities to the game, but where the game really drags is in its pacing and general gameplay. Dialog sections are appreciated for being fully-voiced, but the way they are presented are such a drag, it's like being spoken to by a droney professor. Of course, this game also has stealth sections, which are too easy to be challenging or scary, and too slow to offer any sense of dread or tension. Now, you do get a sword to combat spirits directly too, but this is very unsatisfying & not very complex, but it does make an attempt with spell & magic attacks. You can definitely make a game hard to control to enhance the horror, but I do not think that was the goal or intention here. This is ultimately a game I wanted to like, even love, more than I do. I feel the passion here, I do, but the execution is just too flawed to look past. The idea of the story (based on real life events) seems interesting but the dialogue is botched; combat could be engaging, but it's floaty and momentumless; even the character & designs just don't really pop out for me. It kills me because the game still actually finds the time to prepare & set-up its scares, and sudden jolts of horror are effective, but it's not few and far between for me to recommend to anyone but the most completionist of survival horror fans. --- Is this girl the cat or is she the canary? https://imgur.com/1e1e70S - https://imgur.com/XObpAjw <cite>Snake5555555555 posted [p:945419668] in THE Snake ... [t:79012032]...</cite> <quote>122. Pagui (Taiwanese Horror) (10.5 points) Nominated by: ihatethiscpu (3/5 remaining) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1FyWV_qKfw Importance: 1 Fear: 5 Snake: 4.5 Yet another example of horror in another culture, one I'm slightly more familiar with thanks to the likes of games like Detention & Devotion, but one that could definitely use even more exposure than it already has. I'll give it to the game: when it wants to, it certainly builds up an effectively creepy atmosphere with its haunted town setting and various granny jump scares that work as well as they do thanks to surreal lighting & a dream-like texture to their events. Playing from a child's perspective, you even imagine that not everything you see is what's actually happening, adding another layer to the horror. These are all fine qualities to the game, but where the game really drags is in its pacing and general gameplay. Dialog sections are appreciated for being fully-voiced, but the way they are presented are such a drag, it's like being spoken to by a droney professor. Of course, this game also has stealth sections, which are too easy to be challenging or scary, and too slow to offer any sense of dread or tension. Now, you do get a sword to combat spirits directly too, but this is very unsatisfying & not very complex, but it does make an attempt with spell & magic attacks. You can definitely make a game hard to control to enhance the horror, but I do not think that was the goal or intention here. This is ultimately a game I wanted to like, even love, more than I do. I feel the passion here, I do, but the execution is just too flawed to look past. The idea of the story (based on real life events) seems interesting but the dialogue is botched; combat could be engaging, but it's floaty and momentumless; even the character & designs just don't really pop out for me. It kills me because the game still actually finds the time to prepare & set-up its scares, and sudden jolts of horror are effective, but it's not few and far between for me to recommend to anyone but the most completionist of survival horror fans. --- Is this girl the cat or is she the canary? https://imgur.com/1e1e70S - https://imgur.com/XObpAjw</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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