At times, you’ll step through a door and find yourself walking on the wall or ceiling. Walk to the end of a long corridor lined with locked doors and when you turn around, you can find yourself in a totally different room instantly. At times you’ll be exiting a room only to walk right back into the very same room you just left. Layers of Fear 2 achieves this confusion by shifting and changing the environment as you move through it. By the end of the movie, you can’t be quite sure where you are or even if it’s real and it works well to disorientate the player.
You can be opening up a watertight door right on to a street scene packed with animatronic characters.
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What’s more, because parts of the ship are cordoned off for the film crew, there’s movie sets to explore too. Passenger rooms, cargo holds and kitchens in different states of repair make for an immersive environment to skulk around in.
Claustrophobic corridors with art deco furnishings make way for the industrial bowels of the ship.
The game is early in the 20th century so the ship has a Titanic vibe. While ships aren’t exactly the most original location for a horror game, the cruise liner in Layers of Fear 2 is a little different from your usual fare. There are moments when the plot here can be very unclear but thankfully, by the end of its 7 hour run time, there’s a satisfactory conclusion no matter which of the 3 endings you receive. Underneath this though, there’s a symbolic plot exploring internal conflict, transsexualism and accepting one’s inner identity. At face value, it’s an actor with a traumatic past that’s using it as motivation to give the performance of a lifetime while also maybe losing their marbles a tad because of a difficult director. Layers of Fear 2 is one of those rare games when its story can work equally as well when taken literally or figuratively. If you wanted to look deeper at the plot here, you could do. Is this all part of the film production? Is the actor imagining this? Are the details I’m uncovering true or a story within a story? You’ll get answers but you’ll likely have more questions before the game ends too. By the time the third act arrives, in which the scares take a back seat so the game can deliver some of the more nuanced narrative beats, you can’t really be sure of anything. A formless horror stalks the actor through the ship. By the second act, that focus has changed. This director acts as a kind of narrator to the game, whispering gruff nothings in your ear as the actor experiences all kids of weird and unnerving things. At first, you’re lead to believe that the enigmatic director likes to put their performers through emotional trauma in order to “get the best out of them”. Separated into 5 acts, the plot to the game has – coincidentally – quite a number of layers. Much like the original game, Layers of Fear 2 has a strong narrative. What follows is a jump scare filled jaunt through the bowels of the boat as well as a sinister trip down memory lane for the protagonist. It doesn’t take long to discover that something isn’t quite right on set though. Employed by an inscrutable movie director with a bad reputation, the actor is aboard this ship in order to star in a mysterious new movie. Swapping the haunted house of the original game for a creaking cruise liner, Layers of Fear 2 puts the player in the shoes of a Hollywood actor.
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Do the chills carry over in a portable form? Or is this one nautical nail biter we should let drift away? Let’s get into it. Originally released back in 2019, Layers of Fear 2 is now creeping onto Nintendo Switch. Probably their most well-known franchises is the Layers of Fear games, the second of which is the focus of this review. They’ve specialised in physiological horror games with high production values like Blair Witch, Observer and The Medium. The Finger Guns Review.įor the best part of a decade, Bloober Team have been carving a little niche for themselves in the gaming industry. Bloober Team’s physiological horror sequel Layers of Fear 2 brings portable scares to the Nintendo Switch.
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