Demo review

[zork1974]

Overall, I like this demo. I am really getting some Fatal Frame vibes from this, and that is a good thing. I automatically turn off head sway. Any type of head sway in first person games gives me a headache. Thank you for making it a player control in the options menu.

When turning my head/view, the performance suffers. I fixed it by turning the speed of camera turn to very low. I was able to win the 10-yen game. Very nice challenge. Even better that you give us many tokens to try.

I hope you put in many more documents that tell little pieces of mythology and story behind both real Japanese culture and fictional monsters for this game. I love those types of documents to read.

Overall, I am impressed. Very nice demo. I hope you can improve engine performance and put in more mythology documents, please. Please continue.

[abysss24]

Yes it was a nice demo, I just finished it. Great graphics, atmosphere, and the overall vibe and realistic mood. Just lovely.
The only critic I may have it that everything strives for realism, except the hair, when seen up close it'y very poligonal-looking, on that enitiy at the end of the demo this is very apparent, but that's my only critic about the demo. I'll be surely getting this one when it comes out.

[black409dar]

nice demo

[Cthoolhoo]

the thing that i dont understand: japanese folklore is full of entities and creatures, but all horror game contains the same overused long black haired female figure repetitively

[abysss24]

Originally posted by Cthoolhoo:

the thing that i dont understand: japanese folklore is full of entities and creatures, but all horror game contains the same overused long black haired female figure repetitively

I think we can blame Japanese ghost movies for this, especially the ones that were remade in the USA. :)

[zork1974]

Not that I'm an expert, but I remember a documentary on Japanese horror theory saying that Asia in general has a different focus than the west. They were about karmic cycles and reincarnation. So, the "system" of the afterlife and the "flow" of energy is all-important. They were less afraid of injury and more afraid of what a ghost represented. A ghost is not supposed to happen, so it means that something REALLY BAD is disrupting karmic flow and thus preventing reincarnation. So, even being touched by the ghost could corrupt your own soul even if you were a really good person. The sheer unfairness of the situation helped the horror along because your choices don't contribute. It makes the living humans less important and thus deeper horror. I can see this point of view. Westerners care more about injury or sickness because their focus is one life and done. No cycle to disrupt.

[🌸🌈Pink Queendom💄🍒]

Originally posted by zork1974:

Not that I'm an expert, but I remember a documentary on Japanese horror theory saying that Asia in general has a different focus than the west. They were about karmic cycles and reincarnation. So, the "system" of the afterlife and the "flow" of energy is all-important. They were less afraid of injury and more afraid of what a ghost represented. A ghost is not supposed to happen, so it means that something REALLY BAD is disrupting karmic flow and thus preventing reincarnation. So, even being touched by the ghost could corrupt your own soul even if you were a really good person. The sheer unfairness of the situation helped the horror along because your choices don't contribute. It makes the living humans less important and thus deeper horror. I can see this point of view. Westerners care more about injury or sickness because their focus is one life and done. No cycle to disrupt.

Asians, I mean far-east part of the people, are more afraid of something they can’t see, but it’s there( ghost) than monster creatures whom look terrifying, but you can either run away or find a weapon to retaliate it. Also, according to far east culture, the spirits are generally believed appearing in another dimension comparing to where we are living. The fear of being dragged alive to their dimension and suffer is far worse than encounter a sinister creature in the world where we belong to. A great example is Silent Hill games. Despite it’s created based on ghost stories which happened in U.S, the methods of making horror couldn’t be more typical of an Asian concept of terror( the inner world-another dimension)

It’s both a culture difference and how we see the approach of an unnatural phenomenon towards us :)