Trekking through autumnal forests and rummaging through homes that actually feel lived in make the world of Slender an interesting environment. Some of the better-lit areas look genuinely great. Instead of a dark forest, you’ll wander through abandoned homes, creepy mines, and sunbaked hillsides.
The world he haunts is larger and denser, as well.
You can't fight him, only run from him, and that in of itself makes him more frightening than most game monsters. Though his iconic design may be simple, I still got freaked out every time I spotted his silhouette in the distance. The Slender Man himself still stalks you with the same terrifying persistence he has in the original, exuding a menacing presence that evolves throughout the story in some unexpected ways.
In a storytelling tool unique to videogames, you become an unreliable narrator of your own tale.Most importantly, The Arrival remembers that the core of any good horror lies in its boogeyman. Your journey occasionally reveals a mysterious figure, whose presence is announced by jarring changes in your sound and vision lights flicker, colours warp, sounds screech and distort. There are shades of The Blair Witch Project (for better and for worse) as you watch the horrors unfold through the lens of a video camera. Ominous notes are scrawled on paper and walls with pleas such as "don't let him in!" You find frequent reflections of a community ravaged by an unknown force. Surrounded by darkness, you spend much of your time seeking sources of light – like the similarly themed Alan Wake (without the shooting). They each amount to exploring a foreboding area (such as a house, an abandoned park, or a mine) and finding clues to flesh out the story, usually in the shape of loose pages. (It's a big week for revamped re-releases.)Įach level in Slender feels like a part of a horror short-story collection. Originally a PC game, it's finally making its arrival on next-gen consoles. Slender: The Arrival is not just a harsh lesson in real estate, but a popular first-person survival horror. If it wasn’t for the terrifying spectres that haunt it, it’d be worth looking into. It has lots of space, it’s grandiose house is for sale at the moment, and there are few noisy neighbours. Oakside Park sounds like a nice place to live. Available On: Xbox One,PC,Playstation 3,Xbox 360
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