Slender: The Arrival

Boring af and I wasn't scared once, walking and searching simulator without any thrill. The game bored me so much that i don't have sanity to reach the end.

Firstly, I'm going to start off by saying that Slenderman is probably the greatest creepypasta entity conceived by the hand of man but was fu♥king ruined by the abhorrent YouTube scene at the time and by how cringey his fanbase eventually became, as well as that god-awful 2018 movie. In theory, if he was done by anyone who had a modicum of respect for the horror genre, he would be amazing. I am utterly convinced that Slender: The Arrival is one of the most eerie and underrated horror games; it is also the best depiction of Slenderman that we've had, but also one that definitely has its problems. [h3]The Good Stuff[/h3] The opening segments, the build-up, the atmosphere, the music selection and the visual design are brilliant, especially with the Unreal Engine graphical update they did for the 10th anniversary. Honestly, this game looks fu♥king gorgeous. The story's biggest strong point is the mystery surrounding the Slenderman. I like how it doesn't give any specific details about his origins because his strongest point as a horror entity is that he is inherently incomprehensible. You cannot understand him. You only get clues as to where he may or may not have come from, but even then, it is open-ended enough that these clues might not actually be reliable sources of information. Everyone in this game, all these notes you come across—they're all written from the perspectives of unreliable narrators. It's interesting and reasonably well thought out. I'm glad that they didn't go into any bullsh♥t explanation. [h3]Where It Falls [/h3] What I didn't like is the part where, after you get out of the mine section, the pacing goes to sh♥t. Because after the mine segment, the game is basically already over; you just have to go through the burning woods section, and you're basically at the radio station, and the game is already over. Now the extra hour of content they added to the game, I very much appreciate it; the problem is that it doesn't fit with the rest of the game whatsoever, especially the hospital section. I can definitely appreciate having more content and more stories added to the game, but the hospital section does not really add anything to the overall lore; it's kind of just "all in le head, lmao, some guy burns his house down after escaping a mental institute," and that's basically it. The other bit of added content, where the guy goes snooping around the sketchy ass farmstead like in Resident Evil 7, where it's like any reasonable person would have fu♥ked off as soon as that crackhead showed up. The lore in that segment is interesting; it's just how we come to unravel that lore. Surely they could have redesigned the game and its level design to incorporate these things more naturally, instead of just "Oh hey, here's some VHS tapes; break up the pacing of the game completely; fu♥k you."  It's really unfortunate because this game is full of excellent concepts; some of the delivery hits reasonably well and has a small amount of replay value due to the random placement of the notes and generators in the mine segment, especially. But most of the time it just doesn't hit. It's sad because there is plenty more they could do with the formula if they just added more gameplay variety; they just took the base Slender: The Eight Pages gameplay and basically did all they could with it, which, you know, hats off to them; it just feels underwhelming, like it was rushed, and that's crazy to say because they've had 10 years to work on this game.  [h3]Overall[/h3] So, overall, I really enjoyed it, but to be fair, it has a lot of problems. Short length and unfulfilled potential are the two biggest things that are holding this game back from being great, but everything I did play was actually quite good. Take this type of game, give it more content, triple the length, and don't mess up the pacing as much with those damn VHS tapes. But still, I can respect them for sticking out the development time for Slender: The Arrival for so long; hats off to them. That's very impressive, and it's clearly a labour of love for the developers, so in spite of my criticism, hats off to them absolutely; they clearly had an undying love for the source material, and I'm sure they did everything they could to make this experience the best it could possibly be. So I'm going to give this game a 7/10 for what's here. [h1]7/10[/h1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2KbnCvEsVY

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МНЕ НЕ ПОМОЖЕТ ВАША ЖАЛОСТЬ - ЗАСУНЬТЕ СЕБЕ СВОЕ ПЕЧЕНЬЕ ГЛУБОКО И НАДОЛГО Несомненно, оригинальная Slender: The Eight Pages стала первопроходцем в категории инди-хорроров, наводя страх и ужас на ютуберов и зрителей. Конечно, по нынешним меркам, спустя целых 10 лет, все это смотрится крайне… наивно. Если говорить конкретно о Slender: The Arrival, то, увы, атмосферы страха ждать не стоит, даже играя ночью в наушниках. Нечастая, но назойливая рябь в виде эффекта камеры, и большая часть времени, светлые локации вместе с тонной собирательного хлама (которые не раскрывают и без того скудный лор вселенной) не способны напугать. В этой игре буквально головоломок пара штук, и большую часть времени мы просто бежим по прямой. Игра явно не стоит своих 710 рублей. А что особенно обидно и странно, что в Steam версии (на 20.07.2025: 3.0) нет так называемых "расширенных" уровней (и разобраться, как их разблокировать, невозможно), и обидно - что даже классический уровень (БЕЗ СПОЙЛЕРОВ) с 8 записками после прохождения всего сюжета не пугает, как в ванильной версии. То есть, авторы даже не смогли сохранить то, что работало в оригинальной игре! Графически, игра, возможно, и лучше первого одногодки Outlast, но она совершенно не способна полноценно погрузить и напугать. Slender: The Arrival - это попытка нажиться на ностальгии, которая, к сожалению, не удалась. Лучше пересмотреть старые летсплеи оригинальной Slender: The Eight Pages и вспомнить былой страх, чем тратить деньги на эту ерунду. Не рекомендую.

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played on xbox many moons ago. a really solid story-focused horror game.

Slenderman? More like SLENDER ♥♥♥♥!!!