Layers of fear 2 movie references
The game stretches across a protracted five acts, the middle three of which you spend mostly in flashback as a young version of yourself, running around drab environments that make your school boiler room look and feel like a high-viz '90s rave.
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Strange voiceovers ensue, a growly voice tells you about disappearing into acting roles, the mental strains of wearing different ‘masks’, and all the rest of it, and it readies you for a full-speed-ahead odyssey into insanity.But it’s all a bit of a bluff. It starts off promisingly, as you arrive on a lavish early 20th century cruise liner to shoot a movie. There’s something goofy and comforting in the inevitable repetitions of the genre, but the trick is to reconfigure and spread them out in a way that still manages to surprise us.Layers of Fear 2 exhibits a wide knowledge of these tropes, and of cinema history, but it fails to coagulate them into its own identity.Where its predecessor charted a painter’s descent into madness, here we’re teased with the possibility that we’ll go on an equivalent journey with a successful Hollywood actor. Layers of Fear 2 is slathered in horror tropes we’ve seen before, and that’s okay.
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First-person horror exploring the troubled memories and psyche of a classical Hollywood actor.Expect to pay £21/$27Developer Bloober TeamPublisher Gun MediaReviewed on Intel Core i7-6700HQ, GeForce GTX 1070, 16GB RAMMultiplayer NoLinkA brigade of mindless mannequins blocking your path, ghouls crawling out of televisions, and a susurrus of whispers drifting down the dank corridors of a cargo vessel.