When the monster chasing you can teleport right in front of your face, you'll be left with one of two reactions: A scream of fear that Slenderman has you, or a cry of anger at the game being cheap and not playing fair.Ī lot of the game's 'scare factor' relies on the player knowing the Slenderman mythos, and more importantly, 'buying into' it. In it, you play a woman who visits a friend only to find the friend has been taken by the eponymous baddie.Ĭalling this game a first-person shooter isn't quite accurate first-person explorer is a better term. Slender: The Arrival is not the first game to star the first popular Internet-mythology monster Slenderman, but it is the best of the lot. A monster hasn't made its mark on pop culture until it has a came made about it. While it's far from the best general horror game ever made, it's a must-play for fans of the Slender Man subgenre, and the most ambitious take on the new urban legend that we've seen in gaming yet.There have been videogames based off of monsters. While many of the other Slender Man games essentially amount to one-note, adrenaline-spiking experiences best played with a roomful of friends passing the controller around, Slender: The Arrival actually tries to draw you in to an affecting story, adding personal stakes and specificity to what can often feel like a boilerplate experience. While the atmosphere and vibe remains the same - you're all alone with a flashlight, and boy are you in trouble if the Slender Man catches you - the player's goals and the enemy's behavior are frequently changing depending on what level of the game you're on, keeping things tense throughout the playthrough. But for your first one-on-one game of high-stakes tag with the Slender Man? No, absolutely not.Īs might be expected, Slender: The Arrival is just about the most polished game in the entire digital Slender Man oeuvre, sporting a lot more gameplay variety than its fan-made freeware contemporaries. Is it worth playing? Maybe eventually, just to see a buggy variant on the classic Slender gameplay. It's functionally a copy of what came before, so how could it turn out to be so inferior? The devil is in the details, and the details here are all strange.īuggy and lacking polish, Night Shadows is full of so many little wonky graphical and gameplay aspects - from cascading autumn leaves that fall impossibly from the sky, physical objects you can walk right through, and an odd green wavy effect alerting you to Slender Man's presence instead of the typical static buzz - that the game actually loops back around to being bizarrely entertaining, precisely because of its unpredictable design. Developed and published by Basilic Apps, Night Shadows takes almost every move it makes from the playbook Slender: The Eight Pages established: get in the woods, use your flashlight, grab some shiny things, run for your life.
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