OK/NORMAL

I adore this style and angle, faux-PS1 graphics attached to games that eventually dissolve into madness, so I was expecting to adore this. There’s something appreciable here, sure, but it got lost in all the walking to nowhere with no landmarks, and many of the scary beats have either been done better somewhere else before or otherwise land with a thud thanks to its predictable setup. I have no problem listing games that do this better, such as “Paratropic”; heck, even the creator’s own “SEPTEMBER 1999” has greater thrills in its six minutes. Boring, paint by numbers, and overall tame.

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