Horror video games are experiencing one of the best periods in their history. Recently, the genre’s reference franchises have come back into vogue, as is the case with resident Evil and so on silent Hill. Others, taking advantage of the absence of these representatives, have debuted or are about to debut. In the second group of games, in fact, there is an experience that starts to make too much noise, because it looks more than intimidating: paranormal tales.
During this week, paranormal tales attracted public attention through impressive and terrifying promotion. When you see it, you will surely think that the project has a lot of resources and a studio behind which there are many professionals. There’s nothing further from reality, well paranormal tales is being developed by two horror enthusiasts. Yes, you read that right, only two people are involved in its creation.
paranormal talesFurthermore, clearly inspired Fri -even the initials match-, that creepy demo that anticipated Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro’s vision of the future silent Hill. Unfortunately, a series of unfortunate events forced Konami to close the project. The Japanese creative eventually left the company and quiet hillswhich starred Norman Reedus, has died.
The Horror Cam Committee, as the two responsible dubbed the studio, notes that paranormal tales it’s so scary that some people might not make it to the end of each level. Although this is not a game per se, but a set of experiences consisting of videos, setting, shots and presented phenomena is enough to make you freeze.
What is the purpose paranormal tales if it doesn’t offer interactive elements? Just, test your character. Can you stay until the end of each experience to find out what happened to its main characters? Although the trailer shows a wooded area and a spooky house, the developers say that there will be cutscenes whose locations are completely different. So there will be no variety.
In addition to the terror component, which a priori looks very well done, there is another section that attracts a lot of attention from the outside. paranormal tales are its impressive graphics. The above is made possible because the Horror Cam committee uses Unreal Engine 5, the latest generation engine from Epic Games. Of course, each experience is rendered in real time, just like any video game.
“The game is designed with a hyper-realistic feel to create a visually stunning and memorable experience on Unreal Engine 5.”
This is related to the above paranormal tales It already has the minimum requirements to “enjoy” it on PC. You can check them out on their Steam page.
Without a doubt, the best time to jump on the bandwagon of horror games or experiences. In addition to paranormal taleswhich is still in development, remakes Resident Evil 4, Silent Hill 2 D dead space. On the other hand, we cannot ignore Callisto Protocol and to numerous projects silent Hill this will happen in the next few years.
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