I found myself completed invested, while listening to two siblings adventures through the ship, going from the merriment and joy of childhood, to the sinister haunting truth of the ships past in, often, unsettling outcomes.īut it’s all well and good being spooked, atmosphere, it has in spades, but the actual gameplay is at times, uneven.
Some of the best story beats are garnered through the extra details, the snippets of the people that once wondered through the boat. Perhaps one of my favorite things about Layers of Fear 2 is its commitment to worldbuilding. There are also multiple endings, apparently, but to be honest the journey to these isn’t so clear and through my two playthroughs I received the same ending twice. Most acts are well paced, just tantalising you with new information to shed light on the overarching storyline, and although the middle acts are a little bumpy, it culminates in a genuinely interesting and satisfying conclusion. Layers of Fear 2 is all about presentation, but backing up fantastic level design is great storytelling and vibrant voice acting.
LAYERS OF FEAR 2 MANNEQUINS SERIES
Open one door, find an out-of-place well that the Ring’s Samara would be happy to find herself in, another, sends you into a monochrome series of hallways designed to really mess with your mind. You’d be hastened to think the confines of the boat could become repetitive (especially with the Groundhog Day looping of each act), but to Layers of Fear’s merit, it rarely becomes stagnant, after all, this is a horror game, and messing with the psych of the player is at the forefront of what it sets out to do.
LAYERS OF FEAR 2 MANNEQUINS FULL
Tight corridors, creaky doors, dilapidated film sets (complete with an abundance of creepy mannequins) – there’s a foreboding sense of dread throughout, made more intoxicating by a full voice cast, haunting soundtrack and developers unafraid to mess with the status quo. Split into five acts, each one beginning at the same location, each loop delves deeper into your creepy location and the director’s reason for sending you there.ĭrip fed over the eight hour adventure there’s enough crumbs of intrigue to keep you interested throughout, but the real winner in Layers of Fear 2 is the setting. Set on an (apparently) abandoned boat, you take on the role of an actor, sent to the ship to get a feel of your latest role in a serious case of method acting.
As a seasoned horror fan, I don’t spook easily, but once I’d begun unraveling the mysteries of the tense, claustrophobic setting, the constant jumpscares really began to catch me off guard.
If you’re reading this, there’s only one thing you want to know is Layers of Fear 2 scary? Honestly, yeah. Queue the Layers of Fear series, more specifically, Layers of Fear 2, which happens to be both a successful port, and a genuinely tense experience, one that pushes the series to the forefront of indie horror gaming alongside its contemporaries.īut let’s cut to the chase. It has decent ports of Outlast, Amnesia and Little Nightmares, but it’s swarmed with so much mobile-quality shovelware the idea of trudging through the eshop is a scary prospect in itself. When you think of Nintendo’s humble, family-friendly Switch, quality horror games don’t immediately spring to mind.
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