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Topic	THE Snake Ranks Anything Horror Related (Vol. 5) 5th Anniversary RANKINGS
Snake5555555555 10/17/20 3:36:31 AM #202:	70 Song of Horror (game) (17 points) Nominated by: v_charon (1/5 remaining) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndyXfnUZBwQ Importance: 2.5 Fear: 7 Snake: 7.5 Wait a minute, does classic survival horror live on? With flavor text, cheesy voice acting, fixed camera angles, and obtuse puzzles solved by backtracking? Please let it be so! Survival horror has been awash with throwbacks and homages over the past few years, that it can honestly be tough to keep up with. Remothered, Capcom's remakes, Back in 1995, any Puppet Combo game. I'm sure Song of Horror slipped under the radar for many people and it's understandable. Fixed camera games went out of vogue right around the time REmake first shipped. This is now a niche gameplay element, and I'm in that niche and then some. Song of Horror is an indie game, and yet designed like a big-budget original. The game looks amazing and its camera angles show off the world's rich detail that seems easier than it is to pull off. Games like Back in 1995 seem to use it just because that's how it was done (well, that game is a whole commentary on this genre, but still...) but Song of Horror delivers in a way almost NONE of the throwbacks accomplish, with flavor text on almost anything you can examine in the environment which is almost always my favorite part of any survival horror game, cameras giving you clear view and the exact information you need to figure out what you have to accomplish. One slightly disappointing aspect is that the game doesn't have combat, it's a hide-and-seek deal, which I don't typically mind but I don't think it suits the vibe the game was going for. That's not to say it's totally devoid of tension though, there's a darkness that serves as the game's main threat and you have to carefully listen for distinct sounds it makes, and it actually reacts to and gets smarter from player decisions. Listening at doors quickly becomes a prayer for safety, and what initially seems like a gimmick becomes something you dread over the course of your time spent playing. I don't have much to say about the story, but it does feature a ton of playable characters across 5 episodes with a perma-death element, and the Song of Horror isn't just an ominous title, it's about a real song that drives the listener mad when they listen to it, kind of like the Hanged King's Tragedy. Luckily the game has perfect sound design to go with this. This game is easily worth a shot if you love old-school survival, it's extremely well-made and just makes me feel like I'm home again. --- And it's gonna be a long October, and I don't have reasons to believe, in much of anything, alright https://imgur.com/1e1e70S <cite>Snake5555555555 posted [p:945953096] in THE Snake ... [t:79012032]...</cite> <quote>70 Song of Horror (game) (17 points) Nominated by: v_charon (1/5 remaining) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndyXfnUZBwQ Importance: 2.5 Fear: 7 Snake: 7.5 Wait a minute, does classic survival horror live on? With flavor text, cheesy voice acting, fixed camera angles, and obtuse puzzles solved by backtracking? Please let it be so! Survival horror has been awash with throwbacks and homages over the past few years, that it can honestly be tough to keep up with. Remothered, Capcom's remakes, Back in 1995, any Puppet Combo game. I'm sure Song of Horror slipped under the radar for many people and it's understandable. Fixed camera games went out of vogue right around the time REmake first shipped. This is now a niche gameplay element, and I'm in that niche and then some. Song of Horror is an indie game, and yet designed like a big-budget original. The game looks amazing and its camera angles show off the world's rich detail that seems easier than it is to pull off. Games like Back in 1995 seem to use it just because that's how it was done (well, that game is a whole commentary on this genre, but still...) but Song of Horror delivers in a way almost NONE of the throwbacks accomplish, with flavor text on almost anything you can examine in the environment which is almost always my favorite part of any survival horror game, cameras giving you clear view and the exact information you need to figure out what you have to accomplish. One slightly disappointing aspect is that the game doesn't have combat, it's a hide-and-seek deal, which I don't typically mind but I don't think it suits the vibe the game was going for. That's not to say it's totally devoid of tension though, there's a darkness that serves as the game's main threat and you have to carefully listen for distinct sounds it makes, and it actually reacts to and gets smarter from player decisions. Listening at doors quickly becomes a prayer for safety, and what initially seems like a gimmick becomes something you dread over the course of your time spent playing. I don't have much to say about the story, but it does feature a ton of playable characters across 5 episodes with a perma-death element, and the Song of Horror isn't just an ominous title, it's about a real song that drives the listener mad when they listen to it, kind of like the Hanged King's Tragedy. Luckily the game has perfect sound design to go with this. This game is easily worth a shot if you love old-school survival, it's extremely well-made and just makes me feel like I'm home again. --- And it's gonna be a long October, and I don't have reasons to believe, in much of anything, alright https://imgur.com/1e1e70S</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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