![]() ![]() As I said the intense initial reactions were lost long before this occurred. Sure this was meant to be an intense heavy scene to strike fear into the player, but this did not resonate with me. When you are eventually captured you will be treated to a close up of Slender Man's expressionless face. After a few minutes the ominous sound loses all effect, the tense situation feels like it has lifted and you feel like this game has nothing else to offer apart from the initial scare. As previously stated Slender Man is a one trick pony so knowing you are safe wandering around the forest aimlessly looking for pages the size of a coin, well, it becomes boring. Fact is, this makes you wander around the game for minutes upon minutes, doing absolutely nothing. Obviously this was an idea to make the game even more horrifying, having no clue where you are in a forest where everything looks alike. Slender gives you no help when it comes to navigation. Again though once you figure out how to avoid being seen, it loses all the intensity it had built up. Apart from looking back you are able to be caught in a few of the key environment pieces around the forest, one being the bathroom stalls. Sure, the first moment caused me to react, but after that the concept became stagnant. Once you realize he will always appear behind you and won't do anything out of the ordinary, makes the tense nature of the game drop drastically. Though this is also one of Slender's biggest flaws, simply put if you keep looking forward and avoid looking back whilst looking for pages, Slender becomes nothing more than an afterthought. The first instance gave me shivers, the helplessness is portrayed brilliantly and you feel like you are an animal being hunted down for the slaughter. When moving around the forest you will eventually catch glimpses of Slender Man, when you look back, he might now be gone. Slender Man cannot be looked at, once you look at his expressionless face for too long you are treated to a static screen and exited out of the game, meaning Slender caught you and did goodness knows what to the character you were controlling. As you know you are being followed your anxiety starts to increase as you tend to panic when you cannot find any pages, knowing Slender Man is after you. This is one of the best features of Slender the atmospheric music is able to set an amazingly tense situation. However, when collecting pages ominous music slowly builds up to intensify the situation, along with the sound of his footsteps becoming louder as you continue. When you first open the game you are thrown into this world, the only noises you hear are crickets, owls and your own footsteps. The game has no narrative to speak of, the basic premise is the only task you are set. The game world is surrounded by a fence, keeping you within the confines of the game. The game world is basic, with only trees surrounding you along with some key features that usually house 1 of the 8 pages you need to collect. Starting from the first page collected he begins to follow your every step. Not only that but you have Slender Man himself on your tail throughout the entire journey. ![]() You are only given a flashlight and the ability to run for short bursts. He has become synonymous with creepy horror stories on the internet for years he now has his chance to scare you in video game form with the latest indie PC game, 'Slender'.ĭeveloped by ' Parsec Productions ', this PC only title has you take control of an unnamed character with a simple task collect 8 pages scattered through the woods. He has been appearing in photos and videos on the internet since the beginning of his existence. Slender Man is a figure who has a plain white face with no facial features, wears a black suit with a grey, black or white tie and has generally normal shaped hands. There are tonnes of mythology behind the character, who appears to be 8-15 feet tall when captured in photos and 6-8 feet tall when captured on film. Originating from a 'Something Awful' thread, the popularity of Slender Man has increased ever since. ![]() ⇒ followSlender Man has become an internet phenomenon. ![]()
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