How Audio Creates Horror: The Heilwald Loophole
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video, I analyze how a game like the Heilwald Loophole is able to create a terrifying atmosphere almost entirely using it's sound design!
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I'm seeing a couple comments on here that misunderstood what I meant when I said this game's special gimmick was going back to previous locations, and I feel like that's because I explained it quite poorly here. What I meant is that you quite literally time travel back to previous locations after acquiring new items to use them in points in time where it wasn't possible. I just wanted to clear that up so there wasn't any misinformation about this game.
Thats a whole genre called metroidvania
@@Pootisbird69
Metroidvanias are about backtracking, not time travelling with your new items like a flashback in a Batman Arkham game.
oh ok i didnt know that was how it worked thanks
hey play roblox doors its a horror game
Thanks for clearing that up, very professional of you !
I feel like the nurse’s section is especially interesting since it doesn’t involve finding an object or an exit, but instead it asks you to overcome the fear that it presents you instead of escaping from it, like every other game. It’s an unorthodox twist but an appreciated one nonetheless.
Lovely
We need more unorthodox twists in games, if done right they're very unique and interesting
Its basically making you be ready to accept your fate
Something I also really like is, for the doctor as example, that it switches to actual English instead of the sound bits that are supposed to be language (I assume it's just things played in reverse instead of mimicing anything in paticular). It kind of has that "the doctor is talking directly to you, the player" vibe I find.
And the 'WHERE ARE YOU GOING?' Randolph gave when I played startled me so bad I completely lost my bearings, only for him to immediately be calm again when he caught up to me since I didn't move. That high tension uneasiness didn't let up once after that.
He said “ *C O M E B A C K H E R E N O W* ”
@@Tomato3njoyer I think he says them both, because I absolutely remember 'WHERE ARE YOU GOING?'. I might need to watch someone play through it again, but I do remember that.
@@Tomato3njoyer Yeah, I just checked ManlyBadassHero's demo play through! At 2:05, he immediately says the 'WHERE ARE YOU GOING?' line, so he does say both.
@@Tomato3njoyer "come back here now" is the 2nd time
oh god i got so freaked out hearing that-i never played this game but i watched izzzyzzz’s video about it as background noise; it caught me so off guard i had to pause it 😭
I'm not much of a horror fan, but the quality of your videos are phenomenal. Keep it up!
The juxtaposition thing was done really well in Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion. I've always really loved how strange it is that calming music plays whenever Specimen 4 chases you.
I love these videos because they feel like someone just having a conversation with me telling me about something they're really interested in and I just love feeling like I could just join in talking.
For anyone who still not understand about the ending, the protagonist actually is dr Randolph, stuck in hellish loop after his death, falling from the building (dental clinic i think) that still under construction.
It is his punishment. Wake up with no memory about his identity and forced to feels every horrible treatment he was give to his patients.
*That “GET BACK HERE NOW” almost made me throw my phone you bastard!*
The talking reminds me of Yugsly/ Yugo Limbo's work on Smile for Me and their "Oh! He's sick" video. Yugo's work on Smile for me is kinda horror esque, definitely has horror elements, if you haven't looked at it you should. It's a great game, great characters, and the soundtrack and sound effects add to the game
average pastra banger video. i can't word it that well myself but i think audio design in games is so damn cool, you described it really well! :]
The Sheeding is another game based on sound and the atmosphere is so creepy, despite the game is like 10 min long.
I discovered from my reading of horror stories even the description of sound is usually more terrifying than whatever horror the author is describing
The only time i was ever scared reading Lovecraft was when some monster began rattling a locked doorknob- or when the soft patter of hooves began to get closer and closer
Same goes for when I was reading the Shining: a thump against the floor only to see that the old fire hose had fallen right in front of you. The Sound of snapping twigs as the topiary seemed to change everytime you looked back to it. The soft crumpling of leaves inside a cement tunnel. Again the turning of a doorknob, and the whirling of an elevator as it went up and down the floors of the hotel with no one inside.
Terrifying
Everytime I see someone or hear someone talking about terrifying audios, I always think of the tripods from the war of the worlds and their siren.
"it steals" have a amazing audio design too
from the way you described Heilwald in the beginning, it almost sounds like some weird enclosed open-world game
The subtleties and subliminal cues often go unnoticed when the game does them well.
When they are bad, they become screamingly noticeable.
This game does them well.
One of my favorite horror games for Audio has to be Cry of Fear, and especially the fakeout area after saw head
The heildwald loophole is one of my favorite indie game I'm really glad to see you cover it 👁👄👁👍
It’s not a horror game but both Ori games have the idea of going back to previous levels with new items and knowledge - and I love it!
pastra has me feeling dread just watching him play
it steals would be my example of how audio can be the best part of a game
0:10 your using those songs yess this needs more attention.
Oh god I can feel tension build up already
sound design in general is awesome
I listened to this video with headphones, And good lord, This was horrifying.
Whoever made that game really knew how to handle the Audio department, And they did an amazing job. Thank you, Pastra, For creating this entertaining video. I'm certain that you learned a lot from this game.
uh hello Pastra, this might be a strange suggestion but theres a cool horror game that's been on roblox called Door's its graphics are extremely good for a ordinary roblox game and your goal is to basically escape the mansion. theres many entities to come across and sound with ambience really give the game a feel. i think its worth checking out
Watching Pastra at night is bad for my health
I love this game!!! The sudden speech was so jarring to me!!
Surprisingly mine would have to be bo2 mob of the dead, the sound design was terrifying
I think lost in vivo and the penumbra games also have really good sound design.
A horror game I recommend to you Is one that I don't remember the full name to, just the first word, which is Saiko. And what this game does is take the concept of a Yandere video game Yandere Dev was going for, and turns it into a horror game not by simply making you play as the love interest of the Yandere's senpai, but instead makes you play as the senpai whose trying to escape the Yandere he broke up with. And each difficulty is a different story. And one of the mechanics of the game is to not act too nice or else you'll end up spending to much time with the big bad you're trying to avoid, all while trying not to act too mean or else you have to deal with the big bad trying to murder you. This is all I'm going into to avoid spoilers.
Steam has so many hidden gems.
A game just came out on Steam called Gloomwood it looks amazing, haven't played it myself yet... but it looks like the type of game that you would love... So check it out! (btw loved the vid)
Have you played that one Roblox horror game Doors? It's really amazing and I'd highly suggest it especially since you don't have to spend a penny to enjoy it. From what I've heard it's still being built upon, only one floor is playable atm, and yet it still has so much to play with.
Not to mention you can play solo or up to 4 people, there's also an Easter egg if you're playing multiplayer and fall behind others (I won't spoil no worries ;D)
I hear him say I want you to know
Content about The Heilwald Loophole? Sign me the fuck up!
HI PASTRA!
Also a very good game with audio design that’s well done is slender the arrival
i thought that the guy in the thumbnail was a teletubby for a sold 30 seconds
7:30 I had the idea of making a Taco Bell joke, but decided against it
Saiko no sutoka i think the game was called?
Mayhaps try that one, its got an interesting system for the killer
also i have mentioned this before (i think twice but idk if youve seen it yet) but i really want you to check out the game Little Nightmares
this comment will probably get drowned or smthg idk
but i used to play Little Nightmares all the time and theres smthg about the dark style of the Maw (the thing you're inside of) that fascinates me, yet i cant quite explain it
the face in the thumbnail 😂😂😂😂
I saw the thumbnail and thought you made a video on slendytubbies lol
Awesome video!
I'm sure you watched the entire video the minute it released, yup, of course!
@@Gon-hx4df Bruh 🫤
Damn pastra has a sad face more sad than nier automata
Personally, when I think of sound design in horror, my mind always goes to Iron Lung. It really does its damnest to make you feel like you're in a creaking submarine tanking the pressure of a deep blood ocean, with whatever the hell is lurking down there.
Exactly iron lung is amazing it’s probably my favorite indie horror game
Yeah man. Iron Lung is amazing. Tbh Pastra should probably do a review on it.
YEAHHHH LET'S GO IRON LUNG!!!
omg once a wannabe Something Awful fandom gets ahold of a game it never sticks off their greasy cheeto dust-covered fingers
@@sparrowanon i cant tell if this is an insult or not.. and also are you calling the fnaf fandom garbage im really not sure if your joking or not i dont know if your trying to insult something or be a jerk or just saying a harmless joke PLEASE HELP AND CLERIFY
@@Greyedin If you didn't know, it's a joke
it's referring to how shitty fandoms will gob on indie games and projects until it's entirely milked of content and the only remedy is leaving it to die. also I used to really like FNaF but I lost all hope after security breach. I don't like how it's turned child-friendly and marketed toward early birds. i think the way Pastra covers games is really good but whenever he tries to be scary with all the teeth and that one weird arc where one of his OCs took over the channel for some reason? he really isn't. I agree with his opinions but his style is just unwarranted and trudged too hard. Like teeth = scary apparently.
I would like to point out that, to me, the rise and fall of the music in the Nurse's theme reminds me of breathing, as if the Nurse's presence terrifies the patients so much that they're struggling to breath in a futile attempt to get away, trapped in a body That's unresponsive.
Visuals can only go so far with horror. You really need good audio/ambience in horror media to compound those visuals. You could have a horrifying monster design, but if there's a lack of engaging, amplifying audio that compliments that visual, the visuals won't be able to carry the game/movie alone.
Heliwald Loophole really did mix them together so perfectly! I wouldn't mind another video on this game honestly!
Yeah, silent hill's fog is amazing, but if it wasn't for the wind, the constant distorted sound the radio emits the game wouldn't be nearly as scary
Yes like if you put sneaky snitch over any horror movie it becomes a comedy
It's proved tha people are more reactive to sound than visual. Sound causes us to flinch faster and better than visual
Another thing is that visuals can be missed/ignored.
However audio can't be missed/ignored because out of all of your senses, hearing is omnipresence.
I actually loved how they used the theme, you mostly see the patients being demonized on horror media, not the cruel institution they're placed in. Already a breath of fresh air!
I agree, too often do I see media try to villainize those in the institution rather than understanding that oftentimes the real horror comes from how they were treated. This game, to me, is a breath of fresh air in many departments, and the overall theme you mentioned is one of the biggest reasons why
In a video made by Ilymation recently on the matter of psych hospitals, I think she put it perfectly when she said something to the effect of _"when people do this, the only horror here is the lack of empathy on display to make a site of historical oppression entirely about yourself. And while it's true that these places have improved for the better, it's also clear that our perceptions of it have not."_
You could argue this game still falls into the trap a little bit by again focusing exclusively on representing the nasty undebelly and leaving the modern improvement they've seen in the dust, but it does make me a bit happier knowing they at least went in the right direction in putting the blame exactly where it belonged with what they did go with.
@@ethanotoroculus1060it also has a old timey feeling so it might take place before these modern improvement came to be, just a fun theory i thought of while i read this comment
@@Roman_the_black_cat Ofc it is. I never felt there was a problem with how the game chose to portray the institutions necessarily, moreso just the overarching tendency for medias to be a bit too overly preoccupied with the way they historically operated without bringing attention to the fact that this stuff has changed, which could have the effect of pushing people away from getting help if they need it.
@@ethanotoroculus1060s a survivor struggling with the ripple of inpatient and many stays through my life, I would like to hope that many have improved- but would like to inform you that not all have come that far. of course, nothing like the last century shock therapy in the video but it can often be extremely dehumanizing and ineffective at helping their patients heal.
The segment with the nurse has a very contradictory design choice: everything about the encounter is saying, "The nurse will end you -- stay away from the nurse," and yet, if you want to progress, the fastest way to do so is to go towards the nurse. So, in essence, the situation the game ends up engendering is that the player is led on a wild goose chase in total vain until they finally acclimatize to the nurse's presence and become so curious or bored they let her catch them.
This might potentially be fun in practice and something that necessarily forces the player to confront danger, but on paper it sounds like a whole lot of confusion and wasting the player's time. If it's so critical to get caught, then why is getting caught made so difficult by setting the player against it?
Wouldn't it be better to lead the player someplace they think is safe from the nurse only to become trapped and completely unable to escape? The result is the same but instead it's the player dictating the pace and not how long it takes an incompetent enemy to catch them?
I don't know. The first situation sounds unusual but maybe not the most effective option.
You definitely have a good point. From a horror standpoint, the nurse encounter is extremely well made, however as an actual game there is a lot of flaw in how it's approached. The game in no way ever tells you that you need to be caught by her, so you run around trying to avoid her at all costs until you realize there's literally no other way to progress.
i'd personally disagree with the encounter being well-made from a horror standpoint, since as a horror game you can't really divorce the horror from the gameplay. If the gameplay/design choices detracts from how scary an encounter is i'd argue that it just isn't that scary as a whole.
As soon as the "get caught by nurse" element was being explained I was like "well that's just terribly made." That's the kind of thing that brings you from terror to angry frustration in a few short moments.
@@Falkuzrules if you're at the point of being angry rather than terrified then you'd be more than willing to _try_ getting caught. If it happens that quickly for you then there's little time wasted and it's hardly a dealbreaker for the horror
@@uncroppedsoop I mean I'm saying that once you found out that *was* the objective you'd get frustrated....... in which case you probably looked it up, saw that, and at that point you might as well just stop playing the game and find something designed better.
As my theatre teacher once said:
"Don't go into audio work expecting to be praised. Most people won't notice it until you mess up"
I think it’s also important to mention the Faith series. Even the most mundane dialogue sounds so horrifying (at least to me, I’m a wuss). It’s such a striking and memorable aspect of the games
It's that fucking Windows 1990's tts program
.....MORTIS
M O R T I S
M O R T I S
the "YOU DIDN'T KILL THE SNAKE JOHN" segment might be my favorite moment in any horror game.
i love faith
This analysis is particularly helpful for me, I've been revving up to make an ARG so having a good example of how important audio is gives me something to work with
Maybe trying something like YTP to start out with would be useful
yooo!!! dude gl on the arg!!! let's go bro!!!
Ooo sounds cool
Thanks
It'll be a while before I can even attempt it so-
I didn’t knew about the true value that audio and soundtrack had until I learned it on my school’s music class
My teacher showed us the same scene on a movie, but without any sound attached to it
It was a generic scene of a guy finding a suitcase on his closet and opening it, seeing a hidden object
My teacher once again replayed the scene, but this time, he added audio to it
The audio was a bunch of violins whose volume slowly, almost too slowly, started to sound louder and louder
If reflected a feeling of dread, suspense and borderline terror
That it makes you feel that when the guy opened the suitcase, he just found something terrifying on it
When I heard that audio, I felt like if a worm was slowly crawling inside of my ear
My teacher once again replayed the same scene, but with a different audio
This time, it was a soft chime of bells accompanied by a joyful angelic choir
The new audio reflected a sense of wonder, hopefulness and fantasy
That makes you believe that the thing the guy found on the suitcase was something magical
This time, the audio was pleasant for me and I even ended up humming it
After that, my respect for audio in movies and video games grew
Because even though you can have the visuals, the audio truly sets the atmosphere of it
I always found that Subnautica was a game where the horror aspect was greatly accentuated by its sound design. Not only the music, but also the ambiance, the distant roaring of creatures... I creates a constant tension that sticks even when you perfectly know the game and have replayed it.
Subnautica's sound design is top goddamn notch, it genuinely sounds like how it would to be underwater there
Especially when it comes to the reaper leviathan because to put it simply “If you can hear the reaper it most likely already knows where you are.”
Even when there is no major threats the sound still keeps you on edge.
I was thinking of Subnautica, too!! It takes a lot to scare me, personally, but when I hear even the distant roar of a Reaper, I immediately want to book it. The Aurora itself also terrified me due to it sounding and feeling so unstable that it could potentially fall apart while I'm exploring it.
The ghost tree song is also pretty neat.
To me, the calm music when you are very clearly in danger feels like the game is betraying you, like it is trying to tell you "everything is okay, let your guard down" just for whatever threat is there to catch me unprepared
The thing that interests me about the sound design in this game is the fact that since your playing as a mental patient that perhaps the sounds and maybe some of the sights aren't nearly as horrifying as the game makes them out to be.
To a person with disturbed mental health a nurse coming through the sick bay to check on her patients could appear as a monster pursuing you, hunting you when in reality its just your sickly mind warping events and your perception to make otherwise mundane things unspeakably terrifying. Schitzophrenia comes to mind.
Its honestly horrifying in of itself that the game might not even be this hellish nightmarish experience and that the reality is your character only sees it that way because their mind is broken. I haven't played the game so don't take my word for it but it seems like when Doctor Randolph catches you he just tells you to calm down or possibly sedates you which...is actually all that bad. He's not some scary horror monster...he's a Doctor, but to a mental patient being chased through the halls by him the difference might be negligable.
Iron Lung also has great sound design. The creaking of the submarine, the sound of the blood as you commandeer the submarine, the sounds of the environment outside of it. You definitely need to check it out!
I feel like audio is one of those things that can make or break the atmosphere of any game
(Spoilers)
My favroite part of this game is the scene with the iron lung patient we are so used to fearing everything we see before trying everything else first we emidiantly think they are a threat only to hand us the item that we were looking for and when we do get the item it just makes you feel bad about assuming they are a threat
And even worst is that the person in the iron lung is nurse astrid
Me at 12pm about to sleep:
Pastra uploads a new video: *SLEEPN’T*
No but seriously, I totally agree with this video. Sometimes the audio in horror games scare me even more than the actual jumpscares 💀
@@The_Artist_Official truth
my guy you're going to sleep at *12 in the afternoon-?*
Sound design can let you make a spooky environment feel like a cartoon and make a kids game feel like a creepypasta straight out of the uncanny valley
My favourite thing that developers do for their horror games is when they require you to have the sound up to be able to progress. Especially in games like FNAF 4, where you have to put the volume on loud to merely hear the animatronics and in turn when you get jumpscared it scares you shitless. It also requires you to have the full horror experience :)
Ooh, I remember this from one of the haunted ps1 demo disk (would highly recommend checking them along with the various Dread X collections out)
Also good sound design is honestly just as important, and in some cases more so, than visuals in not only horror, but media as a whole, glad more people are exploring just how effective it can be
Not to downplay visuals at all, both audio and visuals provide unique aspects that can convey concepts incredibly effectively with only one or the other, but when you combine em, ooomf
As someone who is studying game development and audio engineering (which I love), Its nice to see audio get love.
To me, Little Nightmares has some of the best audio design I've seen in a horror game, while the game doesn't usually require you to listen as a mechanic, to me it takes the cake in terms of theme, the sound not only the monsters, but everything around you produces makes you feel even smaller and hopeless than you are, combined with the gorgeous and disturbing soundtrack the game offers.
You know, I'm not usually that into horror, but Pastra just makes it _different._ Easily and quickly earned my subscription.
For me, I feel more scared when ambience is used constantly even when nothing is going to happen. Then all of a sudden, you just cut it for no reason… you’ll feel like something is just about to happen, and feel more scared than a violin suddenly making a sharp note. At least for me it feels more scary, I’m not sure what scares others however.
I think Subnautica, despite not really being intended to be a horror game, does audio design immensely well. The vast roars of huge monsters that lurk just out of sight actually showed me I have thallasophobia - or caused it. Unbelievably terrifying.
the constant threat of running out of oxygen, the whole 'at the precipice before going down where there is no light' thing... The first time I went down to the Sparse Reef (I think) I had a gut-churning moment.
And the sulfur fish... The fucking sulfur fish.
I think the best horror has something beautiful in it.
One game that always comes to mind when I think about sound design and ambience that really adds to the horror is the original postal. The levels are dead silent filled only with gunshots screams and the occasional strangely placed and uncanny sounding ambience. The loading screens and main title screen are an audio visual nightmare, nothing but pure unadulterated insanity with some of the most unnatural and unsettling audio. The ending is this taken to an extreme. I'd definitely recommend it if your looking for more horror games with strong sound design. It's free on steam too so that's a plus. Much love Pastra!
The sound design of Alien Isolation is perhaps some of the best out there. The vents sliding open, the clunking of things moving out of sight, the beeps of different electronics, even just the station shifting and settling. The sound of the save points in particular stands out, since while they’re used to help signal that you’re near a save spot, they’re also loud, distracting, and insistent.
As someone who's starting college for Sound Design a week from now, thanks for this. One of my favorite examples of audio like this is SuperHot: MCD, the sequel to the game you're probably thinking of. I won't say too much, but I absolutely suggest checking it out if you havent
Absolutely! When the jackal shows up it is very unsettling.
I know this has nothing to do with the video (mostly) BUT I love how I can see dozens of thumbnails on my subscription tab and yours always sticks out the most. It's never clickbait-y or showing arrows everywhere or super exaggerated screaming faces. It's just Pastra and I know whenever a new video's there. As an artist, I just wanna say thank you for your hard work because it definitely makes you stick out from the crowd, and i LOVE how passionate you are in every video.
Considering its sound design and visual aspects, i would highly recommend Darkwood. Its a 2D horror game but its visual design, sound design and unnerving elements makes you feel more cornered, stressed and tense than most 3D horror games i personally have seen in a long time, tho that is my personal opinion so i would like to hear yours on it.
The speaking sounds also sound kind of like German (I think) which makes sense, considering the naming of the game.
I've been playing Dead by Daylight a lot recently, most of it as survivor. Dbd isn't a "scary" game, only two or three of the killers can actually jumpscare you, and the competitive nature of the game makes it so that the game itself gives you information about the threat and how to avoid it.
That said, getting chased by a killer and not knowing if i'm fast enought to vault a window before they catch me gets 100x more tense because of the game's sound.
The footsteps of the killer getting closer and the chase music getting louder, hearing the killer preparing to attack even without looking back, all these make you VERY tense, even if for only a few seconds.
Another excellent video! I love the way that instead of a straight-up review, you tied it into a treatise on a particular aspect of game design and used the game to highlight the way in which it’s effective in the genre you’re discussing. Great writing as always.
Also, I just wanna say that sad Clyde really tugged at my heartstrings and made me long for a Clyde plushie that I could clutch to my chest and tell that everything was going to be okay. Just, yanno, lil food for thought.
I found your video while searching for this game's music because it is so good! The characters' "voices" (animal crossing concept turned upside down) surprising us with coherent lines is haunting. Sound design in this game is simply great. It is truly an indie gem because there's so much more to this game, like character design and story, both of which deserve their own video. If you like this atmosphere, I recommend playing American McGee's Alice (2000).
I have never seen your channel before but I'm glad I have now. I am a huge horror fan but when things get intense I never close my eyes, instead I cover my ears. Done this my whole life. I think it's because (at least in my opinion) it's easier to unsee something than to unhear it.
If you like this game, you’re definitely gonna love the haunted ps1 demo disc 2021!! It has some demos for AMAZING horror games, including this game!
2:34 wow pastra describes TH-cam poops
I know ya probably wont see this comment amongst all the others, but I think you should check out the games “Dark Deception” and “Hello Puppets!” They’re fairly interesting in my opinion, especially Dark Deception!
Seeing this in my notifications lifted my crappy mood. Thanks Pastra for always making amazing content!
why do half the games you cover have the exact same retro 3d aesthetic
For me, I reluctantly turn to one game for audio horror, Subnautica. The various noises of the sea creatures, and even your own ships, terrify me into a comatose state. It also amplified by the fact that most of the more haunting can be heard in the shallows where you first land, making sure you know what exactly. Gives me a tingle down my spine thinking. Even in creative mode, which is where I spend of my time, you aren't safe from the noises. This is why I can't bring myself to watch footage of it, even when it's muted. It stays in your brain and keeps you up at just to hear them loop over and over again.
I guess you already played them but imo Amnesia and SOMA have definitely some of the best horror sound design. They were able to make me afraid to progress just through the sound design and overall atmosphere even if actually there were no threats in the level at times.
I’ve been in love with this game since ManlyBadassHero introduced it to me
If you like audio in horror, I would like to recommend Silent Hill 2
One of the things that scared me about this game (but was also really cool) was that it set its precedent with characters speaking with text + audio going blablablah but then the moment you piss off the first guy you meet, he's not only yelling but SPEAKING WITH NORMAL WORDS. That moment was great because it tells you then that any 'rules' it sets up for how the game is presented to you can be broken or changed at any time, and thus for the rest of the game you never know what to expect.
Yeah! It’d be like if you were playing Animal Crossing and Tom Nook or Isabelle are giving you a tutorial with the normal AC language, and then if you mess up like 3 or more times (probably on purpose) they immediately starting whispering dark things about you in full blown English like they hate your guts for toying with them or something
This makes me want to see a horror game in a perfectly mundane setting, but with deeply unsettling music and sound design. I feel like that would be a good way of expressing that feeling when you're just going about your everyday life, working or shopping, and then something starts setting off this horrible gut feeling and you have to figure out how to get your work done and keep yourself safe without looking like a crazy person.
Oh! I first heard of this game from izzyizz from her ps1 esque games video and found the Dr Randolph "CoME bAck HERe NoW" both funny and unsettling. A little bit like the feeling you get while watching the Mandela catalogue in the middle of the day. I freaking love this approach to horror and am SO glad you made a video about it
3:33 Talk about sound design! The developers left a nifty trick to figuring out the Doctor is a bad guy. where if you listen closely, you'll hear the Imperial March soundtrack from Star Wars, a soundtrack notorious for representing the bad guys.
Speaking of amazing sound design. Kane Pixel's Backrooms series has some of the best sound design ive ever heard, obviously it's not a game, but I feel the same stuff still applies.
Great video, and while I agree with you that sound design is so important; It's weird how subjective audio design is. Everything you're highlighting as awesome, I think sounds like garbage. lol. When I think of a horror game with great audio design, I think of the indie title Visage. The game itself is pretty lackluster if you ask me, but the atmosphere created by the audio was spot on.
Darkwood has one of the very best sound design there is on horror games, sadly the game is really underrated
We've all seen harmless audio with hostile environments, but I wonder what the opposite would be like.
When I make games, I try to make them not rely on color or audio since some people are deaf or colorblind
Yeah. Accessibility is important.
Dr. Randolph (Distorted): Why are you running?
Me: ¡Déjame sola por Cristo Saque!
Dr. Randolph (Still distorted): I only want to help!