![]() The madness is well represented by the last white canvas that threateningly stands in his studio player’s aim is to achieve his latest masterpiece, the one that will give him fame and success. It can be read as a journey into the diseased psyche of the main character, a painter who has lost his mind, has become alcoholic and has sacrificed his family and his loved ones to chase in vain his artistic dream and a fleeting inspiration. It’s what I call interactive environmental metamorphosis! I played very slowly, sipping every moment of tension and mystery but even when sometimes I went in a hurry, the environment transformations remained perfectly synchronized, giving me a deep sense of loss at the mercy of some kind of malignant and metaphysical entity. Walls, furnitures, rooms, etc., everything is trasforming and changing in real time while you’re playing: at one point you turn around: just a moment before there was a wall, now there is a door you walk around a rectangular hall, but at every turn you always find different furnitures you have just entered a room that has no other exit, then go back to find that the rest of the house has completely changed at one point you look up, and where before there was the ceiling, now you can see only an infinite number of floors endlessly rising up to the sky like a skycraper! A triumph of amazing AI, which completely fulfills the player’s actions. That’s all? Well yes, if it were not for the haunted mansion that seems to have a life of its own! Gameplay is mostly based on exploration of a Victorian mansion. In fact there are no monsters to fight or to run from puzzles to be solved, as well as objects and clues to be collected, they could be counted on one hand fingers. ![]() It’s a psychological horror with gothic environments and walking simulator ( wrong term indeed!) gameplay. Yes, luckily, because it is a genre that has made its days nowadays horror games have to look for new expressive dimensions and partly LOF succeeds in. Luckily, Layers of Fear is not a survival horror game. ![]()
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