Perception

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If there’s something that fascinates me in short stories, it’s the way the character is guided into the twilight of memory. The beginning of the story is spontaneous, without distinguishing what the past was like. Although it doesn’t resort to amnesia but to the confrontation of a bitter memento, whose outcome it’s gotten from an out-of-place perspective. Cassandra goes to a manor and at the end she’s looking at it as a model, as an omniscient character she causes trepidation in me.
When I watched some gameplays, I paused to play on my own. The gameplay caught my attention, she’s a blind character. The story tells something like this: It's about Cassandra or Cassie. She visits the mansion located in Gloucester, Massachusetts, as an inexplicable voice and a vision of a tree are calling to her. Upon arrival, she unearths the past of the house, where a long time ago a woman accused of witchcraft used to live. After her death at the stake (or gallows), a curse falls there. Everyone who resides in the house dies tragically. So Cassie will do everything she can to get rid of the evil living in the mansion.
The story is interesting, I don't reject it. Each chapter narrates a different epoch —death and jinx— for every one occupant. It occasioned me feel like a journey back in time, the mansion transforms depending on its context of the past. The horror adventure is retrospective, where people, the echoes of ghosts, recount their tragic precedent. The chapters give a feeling of partaking diverse stories, but they’re always related to Susannah Martin's past. I liked idea of everything happening in the mansion but at different times. The memories in some objects and Cassie's brief soliloquy consent us to come into that dark world in its double meaning: the blindness of the protagonist and the curse.
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The game is a walking simulator. Although that’s one of its difficulties, because it can be transformed into the actions of seeking and hiding. This has double gameplay. If you want the narration, Cassie will talk more frequently. On the other hand, if you want gameplay, the sound of the enemy will be important. Although she hardly speaks except in narrative moments, so the game is set in the silence of darkness. Almost everything is partially dark.
Since the character is blind and therefore there’s an absence of colours and light, echolocation plays its important part. With the cane being hit against something, it allows you to glimpse the environments for a moment. The only bad thing from my point of view was the misinterpretation of the resonance of the objects. Hitting something against metal or glass will not be similar, in the game the opposite happens. However, although it’s narrative, the character automatically has an app on her mobile phone to scan some things and thus know what they are. As I said, they’re narrative, they’d have been better utilized and developed to provide an unique gameplay experience that expresses Cassie's perspective.
The app is interesting: scanner and help from the community. But everything was reserved at the narrative layer, a script that could be better. Interaction with objects reveals fragments of the story. It’s also possible to see where to go through the sixth sense, that is, the ability to highlight things. Though, when the difficulty is changed there’re spots where the player can hide from evil creatures (the Presence). She’ll be left in the dark; although there’re also other sounds produced by her footsteps, speakers playing or dripping water with which you can temporarily glimpse the surroundings.
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The game has a few colours, while it’ll always immerse you in darkness. It was a good idea, but the proposal, the gameplay and the thoughts created on what the inside of a blind person is like were needed to be further developed. Everything will become monotonous, without great details if you’re used to colours. If so, despite its noteworthy narrative, I don’t recommend it for everyone. This game requires patience, sympathetic and understanding.
Sighted everything in black and blue tones with the shapes of the objects being emphasized caused an impact of new experience on me just as the story accompanied it. Just as silence predominates on many occasions, sometimes you’ll hear choral pieces of music (or music performed on piano with a melancholic air). The style of the game mainly brings back memories of Amnesia. Due to the gameplay or the story, this game has an unconventional point of view with the way of holding your hands into the heart of the night.
Recommendation: 7/10

Scary and fun. This game has a very unique concept and I think they did it well. I will say it is a bit short so I would recommend to get it on sale.

TL;DR Halfway decent story and premise makes for a decent play but consider additional issues.
I got this game a long time ago because it was for a class on the subgenre of horror. Gave up brcause of fear and a deadline and watched a playthrough. I enjoyed the story enough that I wished to play it myself and get all the details.
Now have finally gotten around to playing it. It's pretty ok. I enjoy the story plenty and the mechanics of the game is pretty interesting. But if you're the type that wants all the achievements, maybe not for you. There seems to be some bug issues with a couple achievements, and since the game was patched the touchstone items needed for certain achievements are now in different locations or possibly removed.
I would say the biggest down side is the fact it doesnt allow you to manually save. It's very frustrating when you are just missing one touchstone in a chapter, trigger the next chapter, but can't go back for that last item. The game also tends to be laggy, but I dunno if that's due to the game itself or my less than perfect laptop running it.

It took me about 5 hours to beat the game. I did not get all the achievements. I am not sure how I missed all of the achievements. I felt like I explored every each of the game. Clearly I missed a lot.

You see by tapping you cane, however, that alerts the presence in the house as well. It's different, however, it's enjoyable.

This game makes for a unique and interesting bite-sized horror experience. The concept of playing through the perspective of a blind person in a haunted house is absolutely genius, and I think it was executed as well as it could have been. The mechanics are on point, limiting your vision enough to enhance the fear factor while still giving you the tools needed to navigate adequately. It CAN get confusing at times, but thankfully the game implements a waypoint system that points you to the very general direction of your next objective.

My critisims are few and minor:
-The voice acting of the protagonist, while very good and believable, is a bit distracting. I personally would have preffered to play as a silent or mostly silent protagonist, but that's very subjective.
-I also didn't like that we see the silhouette of the primary monster. For a game that prides itself in limiting visual information to the player, we get too good a look at the primary monster and it's really not that scary a design in my opinion. I think it would have been scarier if it were more like Bird Box in that we never actually see what it looks like and use sound design to imply when it finds you, except maybe in the end sequence.

Will it scare you?
There are a few jumpscares, but nothing like a goofy looking face jumping in front of you and yelling "ooga-booga!" The sound design is masterfully crafted to make the atmosphere feel realistic despite not seeing much of it. This all helps to immerse the player and make them feel like they're in danger. As mentioned before, I didn't find the actual design of the primary monster to be that scary, but the dread of knowing it's there is what really supplied the fear factor for me.

Overall, great game. 8/10, legitimately scary to those who can get immersed in the atmosphere. Due to the factor of limited vision, you probably won't want to play more than once, but it's absolutely worth a try.

Great game! A unique walking simulator with minimal visuals and good (sometimes overly loud) sound. Very original.

Brilliant. Voice acting is, superb. Realy loved this game. Big up to the Devs.