There’s more than a little of traditional Japanese anime character archetypes about them, but that is fine, I accept those readily enough in well-done Japanese games, and they are well-acted here too, and genuinely amusing.Ī wrong turn at the highway, a bridge unexpectedly out, and faster than you can say “creepy looking statue” we’re in weird territory. We’re then introduced to the characters: a female teacher and four high school students, two boys and two girls, including protagonist Linda. The contrast to the horror theme of the game is well done. The game starts with an enthusiastically cheery title song that did make me smile.
It is more that once expectations have been set high, disappointment bites all the harder, and after a fantastic start, this game unfortunately lets itself down. I recall reading a newspaper retrospective on the film version of The Exorcist where the journalist authoring the article wondered if the movie’s reputation did it a disservice: for a first time viewer, how could a mere piece of story-telling on celluloid ever live up to that reputation? This is not to say that DreadOut is a hyped or famously scary game on the contrary, it’s a localised-to-English version of an Indonesian game that had the potential to be an unexpected gem.
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