But it's clearly old, too, even if you have a working battery and don't, like me, need to keep it connected to the mains. It's still a lovely machine, with a bright screen and a real sense of luxury to it. The PSP is perfectly placed to feel like the future and the past. I realise this has probably put you off completely, but you should play it.īertie Metal Gear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel, PSP I couldn't find a decent vid for this, so here's the Death Stranding trailer. The Mortuary Assistant is so often like that. Actually, spiders are a really good reference, not because there are spiders in the game but because of how they move, so quickly and silently, so gracefully - there one moment, gone the next. All of a sudden, something is just there, and just as quickly, it's gone, scuttling away like a spider back down a hole. There's rarely any fanfare attached to it for starters - it's not like you get a whack of orchestral sound just to make sure you jump out of your seat. And I've lost count of the times Mortuary Assistant has pulled a similar trick.īut it doesn't feel like a trick. And those photos I always find creepier because I don't see the thing the first time around - it's something to do with the vulnerability of being in the presence of something but not realising it, I think, and it shakes me up. Think of those creepy photographs where you don't see the face at the window until you look again: it's like that. This game is a master at making almost imperceptible changes very quickly and then leaving them up to you to discover them. And you might think that really limits what Mortuary Assistant can do, the stress it can put you under, but it doesn't. Really, you're just there to observe, and it's a design decision I cling to like a life raft in those moments, believe me. There's no combat in the game, you see, so you don't have to defend yourself when something frightening appears - you're not under that kind of threat. And it wasn't the middle of the night or anything - it was late afternoon and RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under was blaring in the background - but it didn't matter: I shuddered.Īnd OK, I'm an easy target, but there's something about the way this game handles scares that fascinates me. All my hair stood on end and I was sweating and my heart was thudding. I had a proper creep-out playing The Mortuary Assistant the other day. Watch on YouTube Zoe takes Ian along for her first shift in The Mortuary Assistant.
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