![]() You meet your first NPC, Annika, chilling out in the periphery along with the glowy-eyed shadow people, which is a clear sign that something has obviously happened to her. It's not that scary in all honesty and the lack of death animations or variety with which you get "got" just leaves these shadow figures serving more as vapid boundaries within which you must wander about reading banal papers and articles until you find something that actually helps you progress. I actually sacrificed myself early on just to see what would happen if I got too close and got caught by the boogeymen, and apart from your vision going a bit hazy they very lazily grab you and start beating at you with a short fading-out and oddly low-energy animation. THOSE WHO REMAIN PS4 FREEAs you move around the rooms you quickly realise that the advice you have been given at the beginning is all the advice you need: "stay in the light." Flipping the switches on the walls illuminates each room and these shadow people vanish leaving you free to explore. THOSE WHO REMAIN PS4 MOVIEUpon entering you are exposed, for the first time, to the 50% opacity shadow figures that have corny glowing eyes and give off a droning horror movie tone the closer you get to them. For example, you find a barn in pitch dark, with rain lashing down, crows squawking and fields of corn swaying and rustling. The spooky vibes certainly do kick in at times, but it's more the waiting for something you know is going to happen than what actually happens. THOSE WHO REMAIN PS4 SERIESEventually, you find what you need and carry on your merry way to see what the next scene has in store for you. Entering the motel room, you are met with yet another mystery and another series of mundane and clichéd things to do in order to progress, such as answering a phone that you checked and found it had no dial tone, and turning on and off lights in front of a TV that blatantly has a set of eyes watching you from within. As you make your way to the reception and scan around for information, it's apparent that people have generally gone missing and the world is in a state of spooky suspension. Currently, you're on the brink of ending it all but you now want to break up with your latest squeeze, Diane, at one of Golden Oak's motel rooms, which is in the middle of nowhere. You begin this tale as Edward, a man with perhaps fewer issues than the game in which he stars, and you quickly learn that you had it all, lost it all. Those Who Remain feels like a super basic '90s PC title that has haphazardly been blown from that era, finding itself a fully-modelled 3D effigy of itself in 2020. Made in Unity often used to mean a reasonable standard of gaming, for fun, simple titles but more recently developers have been bumping up the abilities of this toolset and really crafting some amazing experience. Unfortunately for me, I found this game monotonously obvious and tiringly chore-like. Those Who Remain plays on your fear of the dark, tried and tested inner monologues and tries to eke out something that is worth more than the sum of its parts. These days we have seen it all. We know the ropes, we know the tropes, and we expect something more. Noir-style games are edgy, cool, and gritty-or at least they were when they first hit the video game scene. ![]()
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