All the series I mentioned, Alone in the Dark, Resident Evil and Silent Hill all became heavily more combat focused and only began to offer boo scares. Somewhere along the way, we lost sight of all of that. Then of course, you have your Silent Hill games, which added a whole new level of psychological horror elements rather than being more jump scares. It, along with many other survival horror games, had branching paths which would allow you multiple endings and enhancing the replay value. I thought the setup and plot was great, Scissorman is a cool villain and I liked how the character you play as depends on a situation in the prologue. There’s another good example Clock Tower. I’m not saying that as a negative. Regardless of how that series started to go downhill after Resident Evil 4 (or wherever depending on your opinion), but after it hit the scene, just damn near every survival horror game had to involve a secret bio-chemical company with an evil plot – I’m looking at you, Clock Tower: The Struggle Within. Then along came Resident Evil and changed that game. I still bust that game out from time to time to play. I remember playing Alone in the Dark on 3DO and being floored by it. I’ve always wanted there to be more video games like this released, so hopefully this is just a sign of more to come.Call me old fashioned, but I miss the good ol’ days of survival horror when it was you and your wits, no weapons (or at least very limited), a somewhat simple plot, the cheesy dialogue and of course, the really cool killers these games seemed to have. The game will put you in the role of a character in a slasher film, on the run from a masked maniac with a power drill. Power Drill Massacre from Puppet Combo This is why you were warned about power tools as a kid. Using “PS1 survival horror, 80’s slasher flicks, and the golden age of VHS home video” as inspiration, the game looks to be a fun retro experience for longtime fans of the horror genre. That’s why I like what I see with Power Drill Massacre from Puppet Combo. Likewise, watching grimy slasher flicks from the 80’s on VHS was another wonderful, nostalgic time period of my life. Some of the best times I ever had playing video games were in the 90’s, with the surge of quality survival horror video games like Silent Hill and the first Resident Evil. Inspired by some of my all-time favorite retro horror video games and movies, Puppet Combo’s ‘Power Drill Massacre’ looks pretty damn awesome.
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