Layers of Fear 2 is all about presentation, but backing up fantastic level design is great storytelling and vibrant voice acting.
#Layers of fear 2 gameplay series#
Open one door, find an out-of-place well that the Ring’s Samara would be happy to find herself in, another, sends you into a monochrome series of hallways designed to really mess with your mind. You’d be hastened to think the confines of the boat could become repetitive (especially with the Groundhog Day looping of each act), but to Layers of Fear’s merit, it rarely becomes stagnant, after all, this is a horror game, and messing with the psych of the player is at the forefront of what it sets out to do.
#Layers of fear 2 gameplay full#
Tight corridors, creaky doors, dilapidated film sets (complete with an abundance of creepy mannequins) – there’s a foreboding sense of dread throughout, made more intoxicating by a full voice cast, haunting soundtrack and developers unafraid to mess with the status quo. Split into five acts, each one beginning at the same location, each loop delves deeper into your creepy location and the director’s reason for sending you there.ĭrip fed over the eight hour adventure there’s enough crumbs of intrigue to keep you interested throughout, but the real winner in Layers of Fear 2 is the setting. Set on an (apparently) abandoned boat, you take on the role of an actor, sent to the ship to get a feel of your latest role in a serious case of method acting. As a seasoned horror fan, I don’t spook easily, but once I’d begun unraveling the mysteries of the tense, claustrophobic setting, the constant jumpscares really began to catch me off guard. If you’re reading this, there’s only one thing you want to know is Layers of Fear 2 scary? Honestly, yeah. Queue the Layers of Fear series, more specifically, Layers of Fear 2, which happens to be both a successful port, and a genuinely tense experience, one that pushes the series to the forefront of indie horror gaming alongside its contemporaries.īut let’s cut to the chase. It has decent ports of Outlast, Amnesia and Little Nightmares, but it’s swarmed with so much mobile-quality shovelware the idea of trudging through the eshop is a scary prospect in itself. When you think of Nintendo’s humble, family-friendly Switch, quality horror games don’t immediately spring to mind.
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