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this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2023
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I'm honestly surprised at the audience praise, but I'm not at all knowledgable about the lore. I have fairly low standards for horror, especially around Halloween, and my expectations for this were really low: all I wanted was a guy working as a night shift security guard seeing a lot of spooky stuff. After the early sequence with the throw-away characters, I felt like there really just wasn't any horror. Once there was a threat, it was fairly immediately dispatched.
I don't mean to be a downer for anyone who enjoyed it, I just loved the idea and really wish I had liked it.
I wrote a snippet about it here but you can skip that. It wasn't my thing either so I would not feel alone. I thought Lillard was wonderful but a lot of it was uneven. I felt more time with suspense and animatronics would have made it better. Outside of that, things often felt hamfisted. I gotta day again though, loved Lillard. I don't know the games but I wished he were the lead and it were a simpler story set just in there.