COUNTDOWN: Ten Games to Play on Switch This Halloween #4 Layers of Fear: Legacy
Layers of Fear: Legacy is one of those “psychological” horror games where your mind occasionally “plays tricks” on you. It’s the kind of experience intending to immerse players in an atmosphere where you’re forced to “question” your own “sanity.” Sort of a distant relative of Eternal Darkness for the GameCube in that regard: Plenty of environmental puzzles offered within a spooky setting. It’s also one of very few non first party Switch titles that I burned right through upon starting, compelled to completion amongst a ridiculous backlog of games.
That means I sure liked it!
This is a first person jam and you’re taking on the part of one of those tortured artist types obsessed with a dead partner and wandering the seemingly haunted halls of an old Victorian mansion determined to finish your masterpiece. Oof, who hasn’t been there? The whole thing is really well done with lots of clever story twists and some very beautiful graphics. I remember getting about 10 minutes in and deciding to throw the Phantom Thread soundtrack on in the background because the whole thing just felt so classy. This is a good one with plenty of extra content once finishing and apparently a sequel that I didn’t know about until just now?
Gotta check that out!
