As the saying went, all fear came from insufficient firepower. After Cheng Tian opened a video of this month's newly released Silent Hill F, he understood that truth more deeply.
This steel pipe passed down through generations of my family wasn't exactly flimsy either!
No matter what kind of horror game it was, as long as the player could pick up a weapon, the nature of the game changed dramatically.
And once the weapons available to the player reached a certain level of firepower, the monsters should be the ones feeling afraid...
When it came to horror games like Silent Hill, Outlast, and the first Resident Evil, Cheng Tian could honestly say that rather than never having played them, he had simply been too scared to.
Embarrassing as it was, Cheng Tian truly hadn't dared to play them back then. Even the sight of the first Resident Evil being played by the shop owner while he lingered outside a game store—the infamous turning-back smile—had been etched into his mind for a long time.
When he was young, he simply hadn't dared to play. Now, though he did dare, the changing times had made him less interested in them.
The racing heartbeat a mere horror game could bring was nowhere near the moment, back in his student days, when he casually turned around and saw his homeroom teacher's face through the back window of the classroom.
Or rather, if he had free time, he would probably go to an arcade and play some fighting games with others instead of letting horror games torture him all over again.
So he basically got through such horror games by watching videos... uh, except for the Fatal Frame series, especially Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water. Those who knew, knew. Cheng Tian had quite the