Slender: The Arrival

hoes are like slenderman they only want a mf when hes getting paper

Buttermilk Cornbread
INGREDIENTS:
1 1/2 cups cornmeal
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup sugar
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon kosher salt
2 cups buttermilk
1 large egg
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and divided
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Place an oven-proof 10-inch cast iron skillet in the oven.
In a large bowl, combine cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
In a large glass measuring cup or another bowl, whisk together buttermilk, egg and 3 tablespoons butter. Pour mixture over dry ingredients and stir using a rubber spatula just until moist.
Remove skillet from the oven and add remaining 3 tablespoons until heated through, about 1-2 minutes.
Working carefully, immediately scoop the batter into the hot skillet. Place into oven and bake for 25-30 minutes, or until a tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Let cool 5 minutes.
Serve warm.

I'll cut straight to the point. I'm recommending this game because it's fun.
Don't get me wrong. If you're looking for a game with a perpetually on-edge atmosphere, an implied plot heavy on horror, and some very nice-looking scenery, Slender: The Arrival has those things, too, and does them quite well. The story centers on Lauren, newly-arrived in town to help her childhood friend Kate sell her house. When she reaches the house, the front door is open, the windows are broken, the walls are covered with threatening graffiti, and Kate is nowhere to be found. Following the literal paper trail Kate left when she vanished, Lauren sets off into the dark forest, hoping to discover what's become of her friend.
The thing that makes this no-frills plot work so well is how subdued it is. There's a reoccurring theme of abduction, and it's framed so seriously it wouldn't feel out of place in a police procedural. Yeah, the culprit's a supernatural being, but having your child snatched from a few feet away from you in broad daylight or going to visit a friend only to find them missing from their visibly-rifled house are things that could otherwise happen exactly as presented. This ratchets up the tension in every chapter because instead of relying on “even if something bad isn't happening now, something bad might happen at any moment,” it goes for “even if something bad isn't happening to you, something bad is happening to someone, and there may be nothing you can do about it.”
But like I said, what I enjoyed most about The Arrival is how well it plays. A lot of games have tried the “find x randomly-placed items to proceed” formula, and most of the time it's as exciting as a grocery list, but Arrival avoids that nicely. The primary way it avoids that is the lack of backtracking. Locations may be randomized but you'll only need to visit them once to pick up what you need, and while you'll need to familiarize yourself with the territory to plot the best path through the level and might need to circle around if a stalker decides to guard an item, there's otherwise very little repetition. You don't have to dodge the same enemies in the same patterns, either; as you gather things, your stalkers will get stronger, faster, and smarter, forcing you to adapt with them. In Genesis, the environment even changes, becoming darker and foggier. This creates a feeling of progress other randomly-generated “scavenger hunts” are missing.
Furthermore, Lauren controls wonderfully. She's a believably limited protagonist, so you can't run her perpetually, move at max speed when she's injured, or fight back at all against supernatural creatures, but the controls are responsive and smooth, and there are plenty of ways to give yourself enough of an advantage to pull through, even on the highest difficulty setting. Bugs and bad RNG can happen, but they're unusual, and I didn't feel like the game was unfair, even on Hardcore (as a matter of fact, Hardcore wound up being my favorite setting). Throw these characters into some creepy levels designed to make them feel insignificant in their vastness, add a stalker or two (each with different tactics), and it makes for the most fun I've had with the game part of a survival horror game since I got to customize Fatal Frame's ghost-hunting camera.
Complaints? There is a bug that can happen if you change the game's aspect ratio to 2560 x 1440 (and perhaps some others; I was only able to trigger it on this one, though) and then try to play the Homestead chapter; the game crashed so hard during the chapel chase sequence I had to restart the computer, and it kept crashing there until I changed the aspect ratio back to the 1280 x 720 default, after which I could finish the level. Also, one of the stalkers, the Chaser, has a bit of a funky hurtbox; she works fine if you encounter her head-on, but if she comes at you from the side, she suddenly gains telekinetic Sith Lord powers that let her clothesline you from eight feet away, something not even Slenderman can do. That said, she usually attacks head-on, so this is much more minor than it sounds. And speaking of minor complaints, considering how different the three stalkers are, and how well Slenderman and the Chaser worked together in the Abyss chapter, I was a little disappointed there was never a chapter where you had to avoid all three.
Still, if you want a ghostly horror game with an intense plot, a suspenseful atmosphere, and creepy, disorienting levels, that's this game; and if you want a virtual dead man's bluff that plays great and pits you against some worthy opponents without the backtracking and mindless repetition that's hindered other takes on the same subject, that's also this game. Recommended.

why is crepy white man chasing me

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A very polished, short horror game at an amazing discount price.
The jumpscares definitely overstay their welcome but they do not reach that point where they are outright annoying and insulting. The game shines in atmosphere, environment design and sound design, it really didn't have to rely on making you jump so much, the buildup is creepy as hell as it is.
The length of the game really made me wish for more, it lasts 2 hours at best, but you'll probably end up beating it in even less time.
All in all, very decent horror that fell short because it was too short. Irony
Still recommend it though, it may be short but the difficulty settings and collectibles will keep you coming back for more.

this why i love indie games
perfect jump scares
amazing levels
slender is one of my favorite horror games