
Your phone also doubles as a puzzle-solving device, especially during the early phases.

Only a few enemies require you to do anything special to defeat them, including a prostitute ghost that can only be stopped by snapping a pic of the hole on her back. No waiting around for just the right moment you can even "rapid fire" your camera and harm your foes without much fuss or muss. The phone's screen provides an obvious tell with a wide window of opportunity when it's time to take a shot, and you need only to capture the pic to deal damage. Unlike Tecmo's tough survival-horror franchise, this game's combat is a little more lenient. Thankfully, DreadOut is basically Fatal Frame Lite, where you fight spirits by taking photos of them using your smartphone. And before you can piss your pants, the thing ambles after you, your only weapon being that aforementioned device. A quick snap of a picture with her phone sets the mound in motion, revealing it to be a massive boar with a human face and a key around its neck. Linda enters the structure to find her friends, and comes across a huge, pulsating lump in the middle of a hallway before long.

Hell, even if you aren't dealing with ghosts and demons, you shouldn't be kicking around a dilapidated building because of more practical and realistic safety issues. They obviously didn't hear me through the screen. Night falls and most of them unsurprisingly go missing while checking out a ruined school, leaving behind protagonist Linda. They all traipsed into an abandoned town without thinking, "Huh, maybe this place is empty for a reason and we need to get the hell out before whatever calamity befell it claims us as well." I tried to warn them through the monitor, because I knew from looking at DreadOut's header on its Steam page that some supernatural force now resided there, and that they would be lucky to get out alive.ĭid I mention this game also transpires in Indonesia? If you're even a little familiar with that country's various tales and folklore, then you know of the pure nightmare fuel that's is in store for this unfortunate group. They reached in impasse in their journey where a bridge had collapsed, and thus decided to wander away from the car in search of a way around the roadblock.

Recently, I had the opportunity to yell at a teacher and her students during an apparent field trip. However, if we were in their shoes, we wouldn't do things any differently. We say it all the time because we have the gift of foresight going into these affairs, knowing what greets these ignorant folks as they unknowingly step into their graves. Don't mess with the obvious seals holding an unspeakable evil at bay. We sit on the outside of horrifying events, looking inward and telling the cast of characters not to do things as if they'll hear us.
