{"id":687,"date":"2010-11-06T18:42:54","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T01:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islemaster.wordpress.com\/?p=687"},"modified":"2010-11-06T18:42:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T01:42:54","slug":"ifcomp-2010-one-eye-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/ifcomp-2010-one-eye-open\/","title":{"rendered":"IFComp 2010: One Eye Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Psychic<\/a><\/p>\n

“One Eye Open” by Colin Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine<\/p>\n

Had you known the bloody history of Corona Labs, you would never have signed up as a test subject. But now, plunged into that history, surrounded by the damned and the dying, you must find the truth. Perhaps you will even survive it.<\/em><\/p>\n

More horror. I’m not thrilled, but I do hear potential in the blurb. I’ll be spoiling below. <\/p>\n

\nPlease be advised that One Eye Open<\/em> is a horror game. It contains mature content (including blood, gore, human injury and death, mild language, tobacco reference, violence, and violent references.)<\/p>\n

We do not recommend this game for a younger audience.<\/p>\n

Would you like to proceed? (y\/n) >\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, no, I say again no! Believe it or not, I’m not a fan of horror. Having been offered a choice, I’m tempted to answer NO and give this an NR.<\/p>\n

For completeness, I’ll give this a try.<\/p>\n

Hmm. Bleeding photographs. Fake trees becoming real trees. We’ve got some drugs\/insanity\/unreliable narrator stuff going on. This is so much<\/em> like the last game I played that I’m thoroughly discouraged. Must… keep… going…<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Well, I failed once. I guess it was pretty stupid to open that interior door. I’m done for now, but my opinion of this game has almost entirely reversed since I started playing.<\/p>\n

I think this is the best execution of a horror setting that I’ve seen this year! Though the mature content warning is merited, the extreme imagery is used with great skill – a general sense of claustrophobia and doom is punctuated by frightening discoveries. And curiously, the horror mixes insane demonic visions with classic slasher flick – and it kind of blends together okay.<\/p>\n

The slight psychic ability of the protagonist gives you a little control over the situation. I assume my objective is more or less to collect all of these papers I find lying around, and to escape the insane hospital if I can (needs a light source?). It took me a while to get a feel for my ability to ‘see’ the past, but gradually getting a grasp of that worked really well.<\/p>\n

I didn’t finish the game, but I really want to go back and give it another shot. I want to find out what could possibly be bringing the building to life with giant fangs and also eating people from the inside out. That’s saying something, since I don’t really like this genre.<\/p>\n

Verdict: A-<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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