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Fear the Spotlight review - lo-fi horror that's light on scares but big on heart
Fear the Spotlight is the least scary horror game you'll likely ever play, but there's a tenderness to its storytelling that cannot be overstated here.
Watch on YouTube It's a fitting conceit for Vivian's underlying struggle to expose and express her deeper feelings toward her best friend Amy, but steering clear of this wandering stage bulb is also how Fear the Spotlight keeps players on their toes between its brilliantly constructed Resident Evil-style puzzle segments. Taking place across just two floors of an old house - as opposed to the much larger school of part one - its puzzles are just as cleverly constructed in this smaller and more intimate setting, but it completely misses how to make its claustrophobic, box-riddled corridors work with its main baddie - which, yep, you guessed it, is a dripping, long-haired woman who's gone a little too far with her backcombing. Instead, it's the puzzles that really carry this section, and while each exhibits the same wonderful tactility of pushing and pulling levers with your mouse - twiddling dials, lifting lids and clunking big chunky buttons into place as they did in part one - its weaker story elements can't help but like it's undermining it all in the process.
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