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So, since I am generally enjoying horror games and played a lot of them already, I decided to give horror in minecraft a try and even recorded it. After thinking about it, I decided not to upload my playthrough though.

Review in short:

Pros:
+ Well chosen ambience sound in the beginning
+ Texture pack created a nice mood
+ being a bit slow made it feel like the character is being cautious

Cons:
- Couldn't see anything
- not much to do really
- not much happening really
- annoyingly loud ambience later
- Spelling errors
- confusing end

Long Review:

So I started this, not expecting too much, since I doubted horror would work in minecraft.
At the beginning I was surprised by the nice mood the texture pack created and the chosen sounds. The blindness and slowness bothered me a little bit first, but I expected that to be okay, once used to it. The Slowness was actually not to bad. Made it feel like tevery movement was cautious like it should be in a horror situation. At the same time though, I knew there was no threat since I was supposed to play on peaceful. So I went into that building and couldn't see anything two blocks away from me. Later in creative mode I saw that there were graves in the first area. Didn't see them at all, cause I would have had to stray from the path and potentially never find it again. That also makes me wonder, what the reason for the low render distance was. Either way: I basically just kept hugging the walls, cause I would have had no idea where I was going otherwise. Eventually found a key to get another key to get another key... Yea, basically it was just go from A to B. That in itself would be okay, but nothing happened. Then there was finally a random jumpscare with an extremely loud noise. I think I would have been actually scared, if there wasn't a noise like that. I just got startled, laughed and moved on. Then there was more not-seeing-anything and grabbing 2 or 3 more keys with very annoying and pointlessly dramatic ambience playing and then there was the end. Before speaking about that a little comment on the books though: At first they were fine, but there were some very rough mistakes in later books, which kinda broke the mood a little. Then finally the end: So I couldn't move and got teleported for like 10 times. No clue what was going on. I used that item I received on the plate below me, got some text and heard some random screaming. Ironically I completely missed the face that was supposed to startle me. I only saw a tiny part of it, before getting to the end.

So... ye... It started promising, but then there really wasn't much to it.