So much of the success of any given horror film relies on
a few aesthetic elements: its atmosphere, its ability to play with light and the shadow, and, of course, location -LRB-... location, location — as real estate folks would add for effect).
Not exact matches
In the end, there isn't much of a difference at all other than the color and a
few aesthetic design
elements.
The still, sequential style makes for some really tense moments where you're not sure what's going to happen next where, unlike a real comic book, you can't accidentally catch a glimpse of the next
few panels.The heavy subject matter and somewhat gruesome
elements won't be for everybody but if gritty crime drama is your thing, and you like the
aesthetic, it is a very engrossing adventure game.
With just 70 stages, and some of these just lasting a
few seconds, there's not a huge amount of game here but that's probably for the best as the unchanging
aesthetic does get a bit tired and the game doesn't ever throw any significantly new gameplay
elements at you.
Here are a
few videos showing off the games
aesthetic and revealing some of the gameplay
elements:
To find the most refined
aesthetic expression of these technologies, the team integrated multiple complex systems into relatively
few architectural
elements.