It's a bit of an emotional rollercoaster......
So, it's an adventure game, played over the shoulder like RE4.
It starts off in wtf mode (think twin peak's red room) and fairly quicky moves into full survival horror mode. Then all of a sudden, it's comedy time. And then back to the red room for some fear top-up.
The main characters in the town are awesome, each having their own theme tune and I'm sitting here grinning my face off at almost every encounter. It's just so funny, although if you didn't like twin peaks, you probably won't "get" this either - it's fairly wacky.
Where things like Silent Hill are relentless in their horror and bleakness, this switches around and is all the more enjoyable and atmospheric for it.
An example of something that made me laugh: He meets a hot chick deputy sherriff and starts chatting to his dual personality - right in front of her, clearly within earshot - about how he shouldn't go into too much detail about his obsession with female murder cases because she might think he's weird.
An example of something that made me scared: the noises, the music, the creatures in the woods.
I've been playing for an hour and have barely scratched the surface. I've smoked a lot of cigarettes, and drunk a lot of coffee though. And stared into the coffee to get predictions for the day. And stood around outside someone's window for a bit looking in.... heheh.
Combat and driving are ok, visuals are variable, music is nicely done with the contexts.
Very cool.
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