Ellis has a walkie-talkie and a cell phone, both of which can be used to communicate with a small pool of people, and while the walkie-talkie is more plot-centered, offering less in the way of free communication, the Nokia allows for the player to call a number of people in Ellis’ address book at any time. There are other characters, of course, but in keeping with the fashion of aforementioned psychological horror game tropes most, but not all, of them are relegated to voice-only appearances. He’s a good boy, and pretty much the only physical contact with a friendly character the player has throughout the entire game. Like Dogmeat in Fallout 4, Bullet can also be instructed to go search for clues or to follow a trail, and can even squeeze into small spaces that Ellis can’t in order to retrieve items. He can be fed treats, petted, told to stay close, and scolded. As Ellis’ assigned companion, Bullet acts as a comfort animal, helping to calm the player down when things in the forest get too stressful. Pointing out enemies isn’t Bullet’s only use. Quick and dangerous, these monsters are hard to spot in the dark, and players must rely on Bullet’s growls to point them in the right direction. Just as Alan Wake would have to aim his flashlight at enemies in order to defuse their shields, Ellis can point his light at the creatures in order to scare them away.
Instead of a gun Ellis is armed with only his flashlight, which, along with its obvious use, is his only defense against the weird, blurry monsters in the woods. A simple search for psychological horror indie titles on Steam will reveal hundreds, if not thousands, of these types of games.īlair Witch does have combat, but those moments are few and far between, and much more along the lines of Alan Wake than Resident Evil. While the idea of taking combat out of a game in order to instill a sense of fear and helplessness was once thought of as a novel concept, soon it became clear that many under-skilled developers were simply taking advantage of that fact in order to do less work.
BLAIR WITCH PS4 MOVIE
In much the same way that The Blair Witch Project, while not the first found footage movie but undeniably the one that kicked off mass interest in the genre, spawned countless lesser iterations of the same concept over the years, games like Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Slenderman have led to an overabundance of similarly-paced horror titles. Related: Blair Witch Gamescom Trailer & Hands-On Gameplay Impressions Accompanying Ellis on his journey is Bullet, his loyal canine companion, as well as an era-appropriate Nokia phone, and, because it wouldn’t be a Blair Witch title without it, a camcorder. Developed by Bloober Team, the Polish game company that created past psychological horror titles Observerand the Layers of Fear series, Blair Witch takes place two years after the events of the original movie and sees players stepping into the shoes of Ellis, a man who joins a search party in order to help find a young boy lost in the woods of Burkittsville, Maryland.
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