Resident Evil 7 made me miss the hell out of P.T.
Remember Silent Hills? Remember the haunting demo, P.T., that was released to the PlayStation Store back in 2014? It seems like a distant memory now, but after treading through the Baker estate in Resident Evil 7, I’m reminded how amazing the teaser was.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m enjoying the heck out of Resident Evil 7. It has all the hallmarks of a great horror experience; dimly lit halls, an enthralling story, and (mostly) great enemies. It also has spiders, ugh. Anything but spiders. But as fun as Resident Evil 7 has been—have you played the excellent DLC?—it made me want to revisit P.T.
So I did just that earlier this week, curious to see if it still holds up more than two years later. (And, yes, I still have P.T. safely downloaded on my PlayStation 4, away from Konami’s clutches. I’m never going to delete it.)
The scariest game ever?
When P.T. (née Silent Hills) mysteriously hit the PSN a few years back, nobody knew how to react. It came from an unknown studio and featured weird, cryptic messages about doors and alternate realities. And its trailer, revealed at Sony’s Gamescom conference, made grand proclamations. Watch out, it said, this game is scary. Really scary.
Curious to see it lived up to the hype, people immediately started playing—myself included. They stalked the looping hallways, encountered Lisa’s vengeful ghost, and got lost in P.T.’s enigmatic nightmare. Oof, I still can’t get that bloody fridge out of my head.
And, it turns out, the demo really was as scary as advertised. When any medium (book, TV show, movie) claims it’s the SCARIEST EVER, you don’t actually expect it to deliver. But, boy, did it deliver. As soon as you step into the hallway for the first time, you come to the realization that P.T. is not normal.
To be fair, I don’t think anyone anticipated the demo to deliver such a tense, atmospheric experience. Compared to more action-oriented horror games, P.T.’s slant was much more psychological. It told a story about a down-and-out father who cracks after losing his job. You’ve no doubt heard a similar story on the news.
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