Holy frick, this is maybe the best one I've played ever, WHAT THE FRICK?
This is literally a 5/5 in every way.
The story is told MASTERFULLY, the tone is set before you even start playing. This game saves automatically? You can't save yourself? WHY YOU GOTTA DO ME LIKE THAT?!?
And the way it's telling the before and after between the professor and him walking home, is its just fricking, its so enticing! Genuinely the most fluid story-telling I've ever seen in one of these, it's just, it's, ITS GREAT!
The visuals too, they're just, they're perfect! The TREES HAVE EYES, and nobody fricking asks questions? WHAT? And the silhouettes within the cabin talking, the pov makes it look like you're stalking them, its just, again, MASTERFUL! And the flashlight mechanics? Hello? Shining some things brighter than others depending on how far away they are? Holy polish? What? How even? What?
The music sets such a great tone, with the chilling ambience, the perfect transition to
THE VOICE ACTING! HOLY FRICK!
This is literally the only submission I've played where the voice-acting is a necessary, and GREAT thing, it didn't feel like I was listening to some guy/girl recording something, I was listening to a grandmother telling a story, its just so immersive, they gave their ALL! GAVE THAT GRANNY A GRAMMY!
And cinematography, like the visuals, is its just masterful! Walking forward, steadily creeping, KNOWING there's something waiting, just not knowing WHAT or WHEN, is its, SO FRICKING GREAT! Finding a pile of skulls is also amazing, its, everything about this is good! The ONLY thing I would change, is the opening cutscene I believe shows one of the monsters, but it would be SO MUCH BETTER to have it entirely up to interpretaion/imagination, completely cementing the psycological horror, no jumpscares, just pure imagined fear.
Anyways though, this is literally the only submission I've given a 5/5 for EVERY category, and holy frick it deserves it. I'm definately reccomending this to other people, and am pretty sure you're going to win one of the prizes, probably voice-acting frankly.
If you don't mind, do you think you could play mine, please? I'm trying to get feedback on it and to get it from you would be such an honor!
Anyways though, yeah this is just, AMAZING, everyone involved gave their A-Game, and HOLY FRICK WHY IS THERE ONLY 2 RATINGS WHY HAS NOBODY ELSE SEEN THIS WHAAAAAAAA