Tuesday, February 7, 2023

The Director's Disorder

The Director's Disorder was another recent free single-player psychological horror game I tried recently.

You are Coal, an actor that has gone to your grandma's house and are tormented by someone as you try to sleep through the night.  It's a terrible "director" making you do terrible things, like desecrate your mothers grave or cut off your finger -- logically you resist but I couldn't figure out a way to progress without leaving into the woods and eventually dying.

On a restore game I just did everything the director wanted me to do so he wouldn't shoot my grandmas dog (asshole), including burn down her house.  There was a montage at the end that tells you what an asshole you really were, hating your sick mother, cheating on your pregnant wife, stealing from needy children, your drunkenness creating unsafe situations for everyone - and killing someone in a hit and run.  You were at your grandmothers house to hide out.

Kind of decent "shocking" twist I suppose ... I had to fight through the denial in much the same way someone this messed up might have to.



I Won't Forget Hue

This was a free game that was suppose to have a bit of a scare element.  I'm really not a big fan of scary games, so I shocked myself by adding a few to the cart recently.  

The scare in this was mild enough for me, effectively you are trapped but by wearing different glass lenses, you can see doors that weren't there, planks that span gaps, etc.  But you also uncover some demons chasing you as you wear these.  They can only get you while you wear their colored glasses, but the level design is such that you will have to sneak/run past with or just be in the room with them.

The collectibles along the way are bits of a torn up photograph, the big reveal is that the torn up photograph is your family, with the end being turning around and seeing the demons, who I guess were your family "look, he sees us now" ... perhaps there was a story somewhere that I missed in audio cues as to why they would be demons ... dementia maybe?