Chen Mo understood the designer's intentions with a simple analysis. After all, the psychology textbooks weren't for nothing.
Therefore, Chen Mo found the bathroom light in the dark and turned it on.
Amidst the crackling sound, the bathroom light came back on, but the color was a bit weird.
The sound of the water in the bathroom had disappeared, and there was no one inside, as if no one had taken a shower. Needless to say, it must have been the male protagonist's hallucination.
Chen Mo quickly found a line of bloody words on the bathroom mirror, "Find me to escape from here!"
After a while, Zhao Lei asked, "Manager, are you done in the bathroom? Don't look outside, the clue is on the bathroom mirror, you'll see it when you turn on the bathroom light. "
Chen Mo said, "Oh, I found it. I'm now on the second floor balcony, should I go to the storage room next?"
Zhao Lei said, "What??? How did you get there faster than me? "
Chen Mo was speechless, "This game is so stupid, there's no difficulty at all. Also, the ghostly figures and scary sound effects aren't high level at all, it's so weak. "
Zhao Lei was speechless.
Chen Mo continued, "Is it time to go to the underground garage after we're done in the storage room? According to the way the game works, the clue should be in that red car right? Would a bloody hand come out of the trunk and grab it? Or do I have to struggle and find that the bloody hand is gone? "
Zhao Lei didn't say anything for a long time before he finally said, "Manager, have you … played this before?"
Chen Mo said, "Nope."
Zhao Lei was going crazy, "Stop lying to me, manager! Why do I feel like you're faster than me if I've never played it before? You even know where to trigger the story? "
Chen Mo sighed, "Geez, maybe this is the tragedy of a video game designer. I know the psychology of the Players inside out, and I know where I can scare them. I've played this scene countless times in my mind, and it doesn't feel fresh at all. "
Zhao Lei said, "… I don't care anymore, manager, I'm going to play it myself."
Zhao Lei felt that his intelligence had been insulted. He was as helpless as an underachiever in front of a straight-A student.
…
The entire game was not long, and it ended in less than an hour. Of course, it was mainly because Chen Mo had passed too quickly.
For the average newbie, Haunted House still had some elements of horror, and there was a certain amount of puzzle-solving content. For example, the bloody words on the bathroom mirror. If they did not trigger it, they would not be able to continue to the next step. Therefore, most players would clear the game for the first time in three to five hours, and most of the time would be spent searching for clues in fear.
However, Chen Mo was well aware of the players' psychology and the intentions of the designer. He was mentally prepared for the difficult parts, and he was also well aware of the rules of the puzzles. He was able to guess them easily, just like a player who had already cleared the game and knew the rules. Therefore, it only took him an hour to complete the game.
As for Zhao Lei, he was still fighting in the last scene.
At this time, the male protagonist was running in a space full of dead souls. From time to time, a dead soul would suddenly appear and grab his ankle.
This was the last scene of the game. The male protagonist had fallen into a deep hallucination. His schizophrenia symptoms had reached its peak. He had to find his hidden will among the countless dead souls and destroy it in order to clear the game.
Zhao Lei was very nervous. Although he had already cleared the game once, many of the elements in the last scene were random. Moreover, under the influence of this terrifying atmosphere, he couldn't help but feel his blood pressure rise and his heart beat faster.
At this time, Chen Mo's voice rang in his ear at an untimely time, "Zhao Lei, I've cleared the game. I'm leaving."
Zhao Lei was speechless.
What the hell! I'm still in the last stage, and you've already cleared it! Is this my first time playing, or is it your first time? It's only been less than an hour, you must be cheating!
Although his mind was filled with curses, Zhao Lei still said, "Oh, alright. Manager, you can leave first. I'm almost done."
System Notification: "Your friend has cleared the game. You can now use his save to continue the game, or continue your current progress."
Zhao Lei, who was surrounded by dead souls, suddenly felt that everything he was doing was meaningless …
Why is that …
I'm the one who cleared the game, right?
…
…
Chen Mo didn't feel anything as he exited the VR pod, he even wanted to laugh.
It wasn't wrong for A Haunted House to be given a score of 7. Chen Mo felt that it was too high. If Chen Mo had to rate it, it would be a negative score.
Perhaps it was because there weren't any horror games in China, so the players were more tolerant of it.
After playing for ten minutes, Chen Mo was certain that A Haunted House was a VR puzzle game with a scary skin. Apart from the last scene where the player had to constantly run to avoid the dead souls and search for the split personality, the rest of the scenes were all about wandering around the house looking for clues. There wasn't much to be nervous about.
There weren't any monsters that would kill your entire family at the slightest disagreement, and there weren't any plot kills that made your fingers hurt. Although there were a few screams and scary scenes, they were all triggered. Just like a haunted house, nothing would happen even if you stood still.
Moreover, the game's resources were too sparse.
Apart from the main character's room, the entire game took place in a deserted house with very limited resources.
No wonder the game was sold so cheaply, it didn't cost much to make!
In terms of the story, Chen Mo highly suspected that A Haunted House's script was written by a Chinese horror film screenwriter. It felt like déjà vu from various Chinese horror films.
When he first entered the game, there were many suspicious points, but in reality, the story of the game was very simple.
As a horror fiction writer, the male protagonist often needed to collect scary material. He also often imagined himself as a character in the book, which led to his schizophrenia.
This deserted house was actually bought by his other personality. The online friend 'Red Rose' wasn't a real person either, it was all a figment of his imagination. Everything in this deserted house was a struggle between him and his other personality.
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