Absolute Fear -AOONI- / 最恐 -青鬼-

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妈的bug一大堆，镜头一直动来动去，反正不修复就不要买

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its not much better than the escape the backrooms type games except it doesn't even have liminal spaces and theres only 1 weird guy

Welp, it looks like our favorite blue demon finally made his debut onto Steam... and, spoiler alert, it's not a very good one. Let's dive right into why Absolute Fear flops as both a game and an attempt to rehash Ao Oni into the spotlight it was in back in 2011. But first of all, let's get the only redeeming factor out the way here - the story. The story is alright. While the game doesn't really try to take advantage of environmental storytelling and will often just spoonfeed little bits of lore through pieces of paper in the finale, for what it goes for, it's not a bad story. Fairly generic, yes, but not entirely uninteresting, which is more than what can be said about the rest of the game. Honestly, I'm surprised it took 16 years for an Ao Oni game to actually get a backstory for its titular monster. I'm even more surprised that the developers took the time to write up and implement a backstory when they can't even get the number of years Ao Oni's even been around right. Ao Oni 1.1 saw the light of day way back in 2008. Doesn't exactly scream 20 years, does it? All passive aggressive praise out of the way, let's put our focus back on why Absolute Fear was Absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. What better way to bash this trash than to look at what originally made Ao Oni so stupidly hard for teenaged me back in the day, the puzzles? Welp, suffice to say, they have not improved one bit. Look at Chapter 2.7, for example. How in the actual ♥♥♥♥ am I supposed to know what to do with the bear when A just stands there at the wall I'm supposed to throw it at? Well, you're not gonna believe this, but you're supposed to just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ walk right by her, crouch behind the barrels, and then throw the bear at the wall. This was the most annoying thing about the game, but another one was just how easy most of the other puzzles were. They're either so frustratingly easy or ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hard that I questioned who the hell the demographic for this whopping pile of Oni ♥♥♥♥ even was. Oh silly me, how could I forget? Obviously it was made as slop for livestreamers as reaction bait rather than an attempt to create a halfway decent reimagining of a beloved franchise. Don't believe me? Look in the damn store page. Maybe this game would have more points gained if the environment wasn't so barren for most of the game. ♥♥♥♥, even the original games had more to them than just the floors, walls, ceiling, and basic puzzle elements. Absolute Fear, on the other hand, hardly even tries. The most it gets to is in the finale, where for some reason it tries to be ♥♥♥♥♥♥' Slender The Arrival like we're back in the early 2010s - oh wait, I forget that that's the time period Litmus is forever stuck on anyway. The only difference is that Slender the Arrival actually tried and succeeded in making a compelling project out of its bland source material. And then about 9 years later after Slender The Arrival we get Absolute Fear. And you wonder why people make videos on YouTube questioning why horror games aren't fun anymore. Gee, I sure do wonder. I also wonder why dying in the finale causes you to die at the end of the game - at that point A's sister already solved the problem of A, so why does she just suddenly die? And another thing, why do A's arms come out of her mouth when it's stated that A IS the Oni, not someone stuck inside it? And where the hell does A's sister go after the true ending? It's not like her mom or dad are alive for her to run back to, so why does the game just close off on her story like the developers don't care enough about her character to properly conclu- oooooh, right, they don't. Silly me. Maybe I gave the story too much praise at the start of the review. Well, all in all, Absolute Fear is an Absolute Trainwreck. Getting all the achievements was an Absolute Pain in the nutsack for me, so I hope that me leaving a review here as a cautionary tale to not buy the game was worth it. For the same amount of money you could get the Ao Oni 6.23 remaster on Steam and have a lot more fun. I know I sure did have more, rather than whatever the ♥♥♥♥ this was. 2/10