Faith (2017 game)

I had hoped “Faith”’s retro horror approach (it looks like an Atari 2600 title at a glance) would satisfy my sweet tooth, but it gets just as much wrong as it does right. The sparing use of fluid character animations coupled with the feat that is walking through its unnerving woods hint there is substantial frights to be had with this aesthetic, so it’s unfortunate that this is all in service of a tale that aims to be reverential in its references but instead lands on paint by numbers (seriously, you’ve already successfully guessed the story). Interesting but hardly inspired.

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