![]() It’s also a fascinating journey through the history of cinema, drawing on imagery from everything from The Wizard of Oz to The Shining as it delves into this actor’s broken mind. ![]() The question of “who am I?” can be a terrifying one, especially when you can’t find an answer to it, and it’s this existential dread that Layers of Fear 2 leans into. A nightmare trip that starts with a seemingly abandoned cruise liner becomes a journey through film sets and disjointed memories, slowly unfurling the story of an actor who so embodies the characters he plays that he loses his own sense of self. ![]() To recap what I said of the PlayStation 4 release, one of the things that makes Layers of Fear 2 so effective is the way it uses the imagery of cinema and role of an actor to tell a haunting story about losing sight of reality. And even with the jump to a less powerful, handheld-focused console, the latest release loses none of that impact. Layers of Fear 2, originally released for other platforms in 2019, and now making its way to Switch, is an especially potent case study in how the a surreal, eerie atmosphere and the fractured, tragic story of a broken psyche can combine to create something truly terrifying-not just in momentary frights, but in the sort of dread that crawls under your skin and stays there. Few game developers have quite the mastery of psychological horror as Bloober Team.
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