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Fear the Spotlight
Released On: Oct 22, 2024
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8.5
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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82% Positive
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18% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
84
82% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
18% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Fear the Spotlight is a short but fantastic classic Survival Horror experience. Filled with an intriguing story, great characters, fun puzzles, this game delivers lots of tension and a lot of love, care, and passion for the games that we grew up with as kids. I cannot recommend this enough if you are a fan of the genre.
Fear the Spotlight masterfully captures the look and feel of a classic PS1 horror title while leveraging modern concepts and gameplay features to produce an atmospheric and nostalgic experience that every lover of horror should enjoy.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 User Ratings
8.5
72% Positive
13 Ratings
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28% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 User Ratings
8.5
72% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
28% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
0% Negative
0 Ratings
0 Ratings
Un juego que me sorprendió mucho para bien, me trajo muchos recuerdos de la época de los Survival Horrorde PS1. Es corto pero el contenido es muy disfrutable la historia y gameplay son interesantes. Igual me emocionaba encontrar referenciasa otros títulos de terror.
El dualsense es bien aprovechado para la inmersión este juego.
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PlayStation 5
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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PlayStation 5
Blumhouse Games is off to a great start with Fear the Spotlight. A creepy PS1-era horror game with a great story, incredible atmosphere, and puzzles that will make you remember those fun times back in the day.
Fear the Spotlight delivers a nostalgic, classically-inspired horror game that places story, its sense of place, and the breadcrumb trail of a mystery you pursue ahead of combat while maintaining a true sense of unease throughout. From the moment our trembling hands touched the planchette, we were spirited away on one hell of a thrill ride.
At the end of the day, what’s even more important than aesthetics and game mechanics is: Did I have fun? And the answer is yes. I had a great time playing Fear the Spotlight. It was a fun, relatively short survival horror game that is great for anyone who wants a retro throwback, or just a plain old fun spooky time. Plus, it’s priced at just $20, so as far as video games go, it’s a relatively cheap investment and is perfect to complete over a single weekend.
Fear the Spotlight offers horror movie and video game enthusiasts a pleasant (perhaps too much, considering we’re talking about horror) five-hour experience spent in a simple story that cleverly reinterprets classic tropes with some interesting visual ideas and excellent progression. The aesthetics are a perfect balance between the nostalgia of PlayStation-era titles and modern rendering. Its underlying romanticism, along with combat dynamics that are not quite on point, prevent it from being truly scary. However, it still manages to touch on unsettling themes and disturb with some well-crafted imagery.
Cozy Game Pals delivered a sweet experience perfect for those who want an effective short Halloween story and have a place in their hearts for how games used to look a couple of decades ago.
Fun classical and entertaining, feels like I'm back playing PSX horror again.
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PlayStation 5
An average (by today’s standards) old school style horror game. Low budget but not downright bad or anything. You’ll have fun with it for a short time then quickly forget it.
In today’s gaming market, I give it a 7.5.
If this was 10+ years ago, I’d give it a 6.0.
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PlayStation 5
We've seen a metric ton of these de-rezzed ps1 style horror games recently, and this isn't the best one I've played but it's far from the worst. There's something you should know going into this and it's critical so I don't consider it a spoiler - there are two totally independent campaigns hidden within this single game. The initial campaign is decent - the story is mysterious and compelling, the run and hide gameplay is solid, and the art style is probably the best I've seen of this type. It only takes a couple hours to finish and when it was over I was thinking that if it was a browser game or one of those 99 cent Steam games it would be one of the best around, but the $20 price tag is a bit much. But then you unlock a completely separate 2nd campaign, and this thing is waaay scarier than the first game and therefore way better in my opinion. It's got the same cool visuals and similar puzzle solving which I thought was kind of mid in both games, but with a completely different setting and a horrifying new villain. It was an odd choice to lock the best part of the game behind the 1st playthrough, but if you take both into account I'd say it's almost worth 20 bucks, maybe pick it up on sale?
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PlayStation 5
A very average and barebones PS1 era horror adventure game. It maybe needed to be a little more difficult or intricate cause its not very fun or interesting to play.
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Summary You and your friend Amy sneak into school after hours to perform a séance. Things go horribly wrong and you become lost and separated. In search of Amy, you explore a section of the school that was condemned long ago because of a tragic fire. It's up to you to explore the decrepit halls, unravel the mysterious past, and save your friend...
Rated T
for Teen
Platforms:
- PC
- Xbox Series X
- Nintendo Switch
- Xbox One
- PlayStation 5
- PlayStation 4
Initial Release Date: Oct 22, 2024
Developer:
- Cozy Game Pals
Publisher: Blumhouse Games
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