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TopicThe Great 2018 Video Game Challenge (Topic Two)
Mega Mana
07/10/18 12:34:56 PM
#20:


Moved Life is Strange from 30 (Female Lead) to 43 (User's Favorite)
Moved Final Fantasy X from 43 (User's Favorite) to 14 (jRPG)

30. Beat a game with a female lead.

Gone Home


- That was short but sweet. The only things I knew going in were that is was going to be fairly short, creepy house exploration, and not going to be what you expect it to be. It was right on all three counts. The first half of the game was definitely waiting for the other shoe to drop... dark and scary house, completely empty, noises in the walls, ghost stories about the uncle, secret panels, twitching and blinking out light bulbs, time travel fiction, nearly every single scrap of paper I could find dated no later than October 1994...

...and then, as the exploration continued and nothing jumped out (there were even hints of a cat and yet no jumping cat!), I began to really appreciate what kind of game it was. It really got that depth of fear and paranoia when going into an unknown place and things aren't what they'd seem. All the scary and tense moments had explanations: Sam is as bad as her sister at leaving lights on all over the house; it's old wiring so sometimes stepping a certain place shorts out a wire; mom and dad went on an anniversary trip and have been too busy to unpack or set up for Katie; the blood splatter is really hair dye) etc. There was so much minute lore that the place felt really lived in and you could get a good sense of who these absent characters were, what they liked, what they were going through, their pasts... it was keen. Sam's story and journal entries and the adventures of Captain Allegra (and her reproductive story)... that was fun. It subverted expectations of what a horror game can be, and I was very happy to have played it.
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