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Alone in the Dark review – a perfunctory romp that doesn't quite live up to the hype
Our review of Alone in the Dark, a game with great ideas but a lot of jank.
Along with the fixed camera angles and tank controls were the bugs and the glitches and all that lovely jank, as much a part of survival horror's storied beginnings as Resident Evil's "itchy tasty" memo. There are only a handful of jumpscares (the same one got me twice, once each playthrough), the enemies you encounter are weird, sure, but ultimately underwhelming, and slowly opening up the mansion – and the other places to which it sends you – is genuinely thrilling, especially when it goes full Haunted House mode, and the rooms switch and rearrange themselves when your back is turned. Throw in an added layer of sophisticated psychological horror with the individual storylines – the story has been penned by SOMA writer Mikael Hedberg, and it's a good one, if a touch predictable – and there's a lot here for horror-lite fans to get excited about.
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