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[h1]"ALTERNATIVE TITLE: WRONG TURN!!"[/h1]
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2778832912
[u] Here's The Thing:[/u]
You are the not-so-little Red Riding Hood on your way to gammy’s house through the usual misty and killer-infested woods. How the elderly woman is still not butchered to this day is miraculous! But alas, she must have misplaced the directions or is up to her haughty self… That’s why we’re in this bloody mess~
[h1][u][+] PROS;[/u][/h1]
[h1]:) A BASKET CASE GONE WRONG~[/h1]
This is a running simulator; bet that caught you off guard. Try it, you just can’t walk… From a red mist/wall (whose existence absolutely makes no sense, but whatever!) and killer, specifically… or if I’m being completely transparent, to avoid [i]running into[/i] the killer!
It’s also a memory simulator where there’s a bunch of signage, forks and crossroads to turn you around. But hold your horses, the routes are already pre-determined and won’t change with each death. It’s designed for you to throw caution to the wind; but if you hoof it fast enough or meet your maker many times, you’d just might be able to backtrack at the sight of the predator lying in wait.
It’s actually a surprisingly short one. About 15 minutes or so, even 5 minutes tops. If you know the way, that is. Or maybe you had the good(?) fortune of stumbling halfway through unscathed. BUT then wait, you had your ears ambushed by the way-too shrill huntsman (who is totally not from [b]Dead by Daylight[/b]) consequently forgetting which paths you had gone down… True story. Then I could see how that $6 pays for itself~
[h1]TIPS:[/h1]
1) Get a paper or one of them newfangled memo apps, start noting down where you went wrong. Literally!
2) Or… actually there are certain tells as to which routes are the [i]inevitably bad[/i] ones.
[h1]:) HIT-OR-MIST![/h1]
Let’s be honest, for once. Setting-wise, there isn’t much going for it. Besides your typical neck in the woods schtick which you will get sick of probably by the fifth or sixth run. If you’re real resilient… wait for it; TENTH, be still my beating heart! However, I will say it has some nice wispiness to it with the slasher staple moonlight jutting from the tree tops.
The dense fogginess that does not welcome you in any way, a point the killer may gladly dispute. But which will envelop your vision and swallow you whole. There’s a certain air of the place being out-of-touch and I’m not simply referring to its dark storybook vibe. More that it reflects a child’s way of visualizing the foreign and grotesque stranger danger of a world. How I wish there was more of that~
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2778833552
[h1]:) HOOD THAT BE AT THIS HOUR?[/h1]
The story is one most would be overly familiar, what with being from their childhood and all. So the dangers that follow won’t be a surprise. But, to see it updated for a modern slasher audience was quite pleasant. Instead of a literal wolf, it’s a creep behind a mask because of course it is! Minus the animal conversation, deceit and foreplay- this just goes for the kill right away.
There isn’t much in the way of fleshing out the narrative beyond that, but the killer has a certain towering and sharp mystique that begets questions to run amok in your mind! I never realized- more like I forgot really, how losing one’s way can be so catastrophically traumatic… Especially for a child, and more so when there’s a madman on the loose~
[h1][u][-] CONS;[/u][/h1]
[h1]:( SIGNS OF TROUBLE.[/h1]
Brevity is the only way it could have been pulled off. However, it’s not strictly about a matter of length as it is replay value. It has that dreadful feeling akin to a minigame that took the place of an already-shelved and fuller final product or a mobile title like [b]Temple Run[/b] where it pits your endurance to the test.
You’ll experience everything it has to offer in like the first fifteen minutes. Or rather, first few deaths. It also lacked a gratifying and meaningful conclusion… In that it ends so abruptly like you’re on a picnic just about to sit and bite into an apple but someone yells “we gotta go” or it suddenly rained~
[h1]:( THERE’S NOTHING LEFT, RIGHT?[/h1]
Much like the game’s direction, it felt a bit aimless and even ends up going circles around itself. Not implying the game is unfair at all, but just that it skimped and missed out on what could have been something more memorable. The wall of red’s only purpose is to throw you off, trick you into making a fatal decision… And the main masked threat gets sic on you if you trigger its detection radius and it hacks you three times in the same gusto and torque each time. Both fall flat in raising any tension at all, except for the one going on between your keyboard and fingers…
I would have preferred perhaps a more dynamic sense of scaring the players. For instance, instead of an immediate kill right away and having no means to struggle back. A chase ensues until you reach the next signpost! A more elaborate version is… let’s assume you’ve already settled down a path. But then you see a silhouette in the thick mist ahead- naturally prompting you to turn the other way.
Only to have the killer spawn behind you and yet another chase gets initiated, in true slasher fashion! These would be more in line with the “don’t stop moving” core philosophy. Another alternative is tormenting the player by falsely getting you worked up on a path that you could have sworn was 100% safe. Which drums up hesitance on your part- and you don’t realize the sea of red closing in until too late~
[h1]:( NOT THE APPLE OF MY EYE…[/h1]
The sound design similarly lacked grace and careful orchestration! Aside from the main theme, the rest come off one-note without much variety. You’ll hear the same identical, rhythmic heavy breathing whenever you begin to run. And the forest ambiance discernibly loops over and over! Every plod of your footstep has that done-to-death crinkling of grass.
The killer’s “alerted” ominous sting is utterly piercing that I just didn’t bother to hear anything else it has… which mind you, is nowhere near atmospheric for starters. Why not add a hum, rustling of shrubbery to give the illusion of being watched?! Just give me anything~
[h1]BUGS:[/h1]
x No red flags!
[h1]NITPICKS:[/h1]
~ No actual chase scenes… HMPH!
~ No saves, which is irritating no doubt. But I can’t see any way around it.
~ No settings option to tweak anything at all.
~ The two props you carry become so ingrained to your vision. They are obviously useless! Why not use an apple or something to mark the paths?
[h1]"- SONG TITLE: AXES AND OH-NOS…"[/h1]
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2778833891
[u]Last Words?[/u]
No-nonsense running simulator in the guise of Little Red Riding Hood. Cheap thrills at a dear price. Could be scarier had it not get routine fast with no payoff. Just decent; sometimes that’s enough~
If you like horror games that don’t have any of those fluffy stealth sequences and instead you just want pure adrenaline, up to a point! If you love to test your intuition and memory, all while running for dear life. Then The Red Hood has a spot for you, just not for very long~
[h1]6 / 10[/h1]
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