Layers of fear inheritance story6/7/2023 ![]() For those wanting a late checkout at the Madness Mansion Inn, there are multiple endings for you to achieve. ![]() Thankfully the DLC isn’t overly long and you can expect to complete your rendezvous with your childhood home in less than two hours. Besides, the middle of the room is brightly lit and if I cranked the brightness up I would expect Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven to start playing as if I ascended to the bright lights of the afterlife. I hear what you’re thinking: why not turn the brightness up? Because I have never needed to previously and I shouldn’t have to because of a poorly designed level. Couple this with the lack of direction in what you have to do and it can quickly become galling, especially in one sequence where you are tasked with finding a door (not that you know that) in pitch black darkness. For the most part the game’s atmosphere is aptly lit, however there are areas where the game is almost pitch black, forcing you to channel your inner Vin Diesel in Pitch Black. While I appreciate the attempt at trying to get the player to feel sorrow for the daughter, the terrible voice-acting only manages to evoke feelings of abhorrence towards the father, as he represents someone who the Sick Puppies song Asshole Father may be titled after.Īnother gripe I have with the design is the contrasting levels of brightness. The end of each flashback is dialogue heavy, and here you’ll learn just how far-gone the painter was and how ruinous the daughter’s upbringing must have been. The puzzles often resemble the flashback you’ll encounter or some aspect of the narrative. You simply have to explore your surroundings and eventually you’ll either piece together the puzzle through sheer happenstance or you’ll stumble on what you need to trigger the next step in the story. The puzzles (calling them is puzzles is a generous stretch) are merely trial-and-error as there is no real indication as to what you’re supposed to do. In these sequences the mansion’s furniture and architecture is warped and your surroundings become hard to navigate, and to make matters worse the longer you spend inside a flashback the more frustrating it becomes. The biggest offender is when you are reliving the memories from a child’s point of view, which resembles something that I would describe as an infant on acid (and not in a good way). Secondly, there are no real objectives given during the sequences, which doesn’t help given these sequences are terribly designed to start with. The jump scares that littered the main game have ceased to exist and Inheritance’s only real ‘horror’ element is its laughable soundscape of baby laughs and dog barks. Sadly they are some of the most lamentable video game sequences I have ever played.įirst and foremost, it is one of the most insipid horror offerings I have experienced, with next to no moments of bona fide tension or horror in general. ![]() These moments make up the game’s main sequences, designed to drive the story forward and help aid the daughter in her quest for solace. As you navigate the mansion you will experience several flashbacks – memories in which you vicariously relive the daughter’s experiences as a young child. The gameplay in Inheritance largely follows the same formula as the main game, in which you explore the mansion’s hallways in search of answers, or in the daughter’s case, forgiveness or justification for the antipathy felt for her father. As your father’s madness has already come and gone, there are plenty of signs of the struggle that ensued decorating the once affluent premises such as paint spatters and wall scrawlings aplenty. However this time around you play as the painter’s unnamed daughter revisiting your childhood home to face your past. If you already own Layers of Fear, Inheritance is a nice low $4.99 add-on through Steam, or if you’re new to it, you can pick up the set for $22.99, shaving a couple dollars off of the price of each bought separately.Inheritance starts off where the main game did, in the foyer of the mansion where your descent into madness began. Filling in the entire tale is still a puzzle, but completing each of these gives some great insight into the primary title’s own workings. It’s a touch on the short side, but makes up for this a bit by presenting three possible endings. Putting it simply, if you enjoyed Layers of Fear and wanted more, Inheritance is exactly what you’re hoping for. Several all-new pieces of the story also play in, of course, especially focused around the painter’s relationship with his daughter, and his desire to see her flourish as an artist in her own right. A fresh perspective does a lot to peel away at the clearly-distorted view of events presented from the painter’s own mind, and there’s quite a bit of exposition that dives into things you’ve already seen. For those familiar with Layers of Fear, Inheritance follows well behind the primary story.
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