The Park

At A Glance

Had Publisher: No
Majority of reviews:
- English ~68%
- German ~8%
- Russian ~4%
Price: $12.99
Review report:
- Negatives: lack of replayability and quite short (under 2 hours), overpriced, confusing story, underused villains
- Positives: scary, interesting story, graphics are acceptable

Gameplay

Music

Art

Real time shot of a parking lot as the main menu, selections are simple with white text and a nice hover effect
On the escalator ride into the park it starts getting rusty, decrepit, gross, darker

Writing

Starts out light-hearted
There is a swan ride with a hansel and grettel story inside
- Appears to serve no purpose besides achievements and curiosity
- Mother has memories of the story (seems to be connected)
Readable documents enhance and reveal more story, a bit unsettling
Husband was a worker on the ferris wheel
Dialogue reveals mother is sick of the child and vindictive
Ending appears to be the mother finding Callum and being influenced by whatever spirit is present to kill him
- Then she winds up in the police office talking to a detective

Scare Factor

Text straight warns player of what’s in store for the game
At the end of the swan ride the head turns around, unsettling, but not scary
Scary creature appears when the ride gets really fast, jumpscare? Not very effective
Reading story about a creepy chipmunk, jumpscare occurred after putting it down, effective!
Sometimes after document there will be a ‘jumpscare’, this seems to be somewhat effective for the second time
Whenever a scary moment happens vision gets blurry and doubled, also a heavy heart-pounding
A spirit appears behind in roller coaster ride, speaks about the child
In the house of horrors a squirrel stand fell and behind it was the real one, effective jumpscare
One of the wood stands sprang up, effective
There is an article about a child who got dismembered
- Can examine the body
- Afterwards you must turn around and the squirrel suit is there
  - Tried walking backwards and the game stopped me (expected)
  - A better way this could be done is pushing the model further back? Felt like it was too close

Overall

Short with an interesting and rarely scene locale to explore.
Note: as of writing in 2023 Russian translations appear to garner more review share in horror than they did with this game released in 2015, not sure why this is

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