![]() Some of the new stages added by the devs years after initial release were particular highlights. Though I just complained about the lack of story, the ambiguity does contribute to a palpable sense of dread throughout, and the sight of Slender standing on a distant mountain in some of the early stages can give a good chill. There's also no real story to speak of the cliche diary entries and notes picked up throughout are too vague, and the final "revelation" at the end is a audio diary that's so garbled its impossible to tell what the characters are saying without subtitles enabled.Īll that said, this game's one saving grace is that it IS kind of scary. So basically the game amounts to stumbling through a dark maze hoping you get lucky and avoid your pursuer. ![]() There's no stealth mechanics used to avoid the creatures there's no way of knowing what route they will take or how many times they can jump on you before ending the game. Sometimes the objects are pages, or generators, and the pursuers are-besides Slender Man-an emaciated boy and a deformed, possessed teenage girl.īut it really makes no difference every level is basically the same concept reskinned, and like the original freeware game there is not any intelligence in how you complete your objective. The *biggest* problem by far with the game though is how every level recycles the exact same objective: collect X number of objects while avoiding Y pursuer. ![]() The devs went back over the years and added in some much longer (and scarier) additional levels to the game, but it still is a pretty short game for the price. It's made in the Unity engine and suffers from the same problem most Unity engine games have that go for a photo-realistic look surfaces are low-poly and shiny, lighting is pretty flat when it's not pitch black, and there's very little interactivity in the environments other than certain objects meant as objective goalposts. Nostalgic as I am for this, it is not a good game. Even though it only had like 5 super short levels at the time (pretty criminal honestly for the price they were charging) I still really liked it. I LOVED the freeware Slender: The Eight Pages and bought this on launch.
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