When trying to open drawers, which were usually stacked on top of each other, two to four at a time, the cursor had a very hard time settling on the drawer you wanted it to. It seems like it’d be easy enough to move it around and click things, but a majority of your clicking in-game is clicking and pulling open doors and drawers, so it’s a combination of clicking and moving the analog stick back to pull. It’s almost like everything else came before the audio, and it’s too bad that it seemed that way.Īnother thing that drove me absolutely nuts was the cursor in the game that you control with your analog stick. I was pretty disappointed with most of the audio experience, especially since audio is the one thing you don’t want to slack on in a horror game.

In one level, there is a rat scurrying around the hallway and it was the same exact rat sound effect every single time and it was dreadfully louder than other sound effects.

Also, the volumes of the sound effects were mismatched with some sounding way louder than others. This also happened sometimes with the dialogue of the characters or sound effects in-game. For example, the audio of the creepy whispering that would come out of the PlayStation 4 controller would cut off suddenly just because I moved to a different side of the room or someone started talking. To me, one of the most important aspects of a horror game like this will be the audio and how well the audio sets the mood. Was this recommendation.The first thing that stood out to me immediately when I started playing Layers Of Fear was how troubling the audio was at times. All of the in-game dialogue is spoken in a fictional language, thus the story is conveyed through actions, gestures and expressions. Should either brother fall from a great height or get injured, the game restarts at a recent checkpoint. The player progresses by manipulating the two brothers at the same time to complete various puzzles, often requiring the player to manipulate both brothers to perform differing functions (such as one distracting a hostile non-player character while the other makes their way around). The older brother is the stronger of the two and can pull levers or boost his younger brother to higher spaces, while the younger one can pass between narrow bars. The controller triggers also cause the respective brother to interact with the game world, such as talking to a non-player character or grabbing onto a ledge or object. The brothers are moved individually by two thumbsticks on the controller. Was this recommendation.?īrothers is presented from a third-person view overlooking the two brothers. Susan's journey takes her on a roller-coaster ride between the world of the living and the world of the dead, where the only way to survive is to overcome her biggest weakness: her own self. Something that'll give her life a purpose. Something that'll help her find an unlikely friend. But she's hanging onto that thin thread of hope, that in the end, as promised, there's an elusive reward waiting for her. She can't fight and has never fired a gun in her life. She has little faith in others and hardly even cares about herself. Susan's few weeks journey doesn't take her across the world and won't turn her into a hero. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future.One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything.But those five, 'The Parasites', are also the most ruthless, deranged and cold-blooded bunch of psychopaths the city has ever known. Susan Ashworth, known in her neighbourhood as the crazy Cat Lady, is a lonely 40- year old on the verge of suicide.

Layers of fear horror game