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Layers of fear inheritance story7/11/2023 ![]() Like in the first adventure, our hero(ine) wanders the gloomy corridors and rooms of the manor in search of fragments of memory, with an always present feeling of being watched or stalked by something. However, the Bloober Team were able to shape things up and give us some interesting topics. To start with, our new protagonist’s memories are based on more or less agreeable ones from her childhood. Usually, whenever I personally play a new DLC, the fear of lack of originality is always present. Graphically, the game is still as beautiful and well detailed, with almost a sense of optimizing the engine that powers shadows and lights and a very important addition to the core narrative. Layers of Fear: Inheritance obviously is built like its predecessor: a murky adventure (more like a walking-simulator), with a spooky soundtrack and a mature storyline that still requires the reflection of players. The daughter will explore the different rooms of the manor (destroyed by the folly of her father) and will start having flashbacks of her past, deranged as her father, which brings the theme of Inheritance in a smart way: the daughter didn’t just inherit her father’s manor, but his mental problems as well, unless the house is the reason. In any case, the game will offer like the original three different endings for you to discover. In Layers of Fear: Inheritance, you play as the daughter of the painter, who decides to return to her childhood house in order to face her past. Having played the main story which I liked – but didn’t really enjoy gameplay-wise – player re-discover the house that got us so scared before. While many players have tried to unravel the many mysteries behind the painter’s true motive, the Bloober Team has decided to lift the veil on some Inheritance. Probably one of the best survival horror of the year (also due to lack of other new games in the genre) Layers of Fear‘s main story takes us the through the mad mind of a painter, seeking to complete his masterpiece. The Fablelands were by far my favorite part, and I didn’t realize how much I missed the first time I was there.Following the success of Layers of Fear, independent studio Polish Bloober decided to extend their horror “walking Simulator” by offering us a brand new DLC by the name of: Inheritance. After my first play through, the game was a lot easier to manage when I had a lay of the land and a general idea of what was going on. There are puzzles in rooms that you’ll completely miss, there are times where you’ll die but sometimes you have to die to continue the story, and so on. There is no clear direction, and you just have to explore until a memory pops for you. Out of the three endings, I didn’t really feel fulfilled by any of them. I felt like maybe there was a bigger picture, but there was a lot of beating around the bush and it was lost on me. You experience memories and find notes and drawings that are loosely connected. Not only was it not scary, I felt like the story, or lack of story, in Inheritance didn’t do anything to further the story in Layers of Fear. I played the game through several times and only remember jumping once. The game just isn’t as scary or intense as its predecessor. Unfortunately, I found the DLC pretty lacking. I was able to get all the endings and achievements in one sitting, and it was pretty cool to experience the game in its entirety. My playthroughs lasted anywhere between 45 minutes to an hour, but it feels like a lot more. It provides a new perspective that made me a little more sympathetic toward the painter.Īnother positive note, I felt like it was the perfect length. ![]() I thought this was really smart to get the chance to see the house in a somewhat normal light. In the DLC, you see the toppled over bookshelves with nothing but the wall behind them, and the paintings with codes are torn apart. For example, there are bookcases with “secret passageways” behind them in the office and paintings with special codes in the first game. As you walk through the home, you immediately see that everything you experienced in Layers of Fear was in the painter’s head. What new horrors will you discover in the mansion? Great AmbianceĪs someone who really enjoyed Layers of Fear, I really appreciated the way they used the environment. ![]() ![]() In Layers of Fear: Inheritance, you play as the painters’ daughter returning home after her father had passed. Price: $4.99 (After buying Layers of Fear). As he traverses the ever changing mansion, he is constantly finding things related to his past and the true horrors that were committed in this house. You play as a painter slowly descending into madness alone in his home. For those of you who didn’t play, this is a psychological indie horror game with multiple endings. Layers of Fear was one of the best horror games I have played this year.
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