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1. #OUTER WILDS ANGLERFISH MOVIE#
2. #OUTER WILDS ANGLERFISH SKIN#
3. #OUTER WILDS ANGLERFISH SERIES#

#OUTER WILDS ANGLERFISH MOVIE#

The silent motion of slideshows is a creepy cousin of the found footage movie (and developer Mobius Digital is not above putting in the occasional piercing music sting to really highlight the dread in certain frames), and the deliberate attempts by these newcomer aliens to destroy their own historical records suggests far greater horrors than even what you've already located. The newcomers' expressions are cold and inhuman in those dusty old photos, except when they twist into something much, much worse. Their history is marked mainly in frozen pictures and slideshows rather than the wry office Slack messages left by Nomai, and the result is a disorentiating lurch of tone. I won't spoil any major details, but our new friends are not doing well.

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Later on, as you start to find pieces of documentation, and as your stomach begins to sink as a series of grim realisations hit home. Christ, how is it that the guarantee of the sun exploding frightens me less than some musty old attic? Anything could be just around that curving, creaking staircase. I've learned to dread blind corners as a result. Not only that, but their architecture is a little too big for comfort you feel like a child everywhere you go, with tabletops at your eye level and ceilings high above, yet the walls are tight enough to feel claustrophobic and you can rarely see very far ahead of you. They might as well have powered their spaceship by the energy gained from putting spiders down people's shirts. For one thing, their technology is darkly-coloured and uses light triggers for activation, so you have to keep turning off your flashlight in dark rooms. But unlike the chirpy Hearthians or thoughtful Nomai, these new visitors don't seem so nice, and everything about them feels… off. The main addition, narratively speaking, is that there's a new faction of aliens with their own technology and history. For that reason, there'll probably be some of you who don't get any apprehension about it at all, who don't see what the fuss is about.

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Rather than Youtube-friendly jumpscares and creepypasta atrocities, the Outer Wilds' DLC is more about implication and drawing contrasts with the main game, creating a constant sense of wrongness that gets under your skin and stays there. I definitely wouldn't say that Echoes of the Eye is a proper horror experience, only that it's taken a few storytelling cues from horror experiences that have been used to inform this oppressive, shuddering tone. A little part of me suspects you know that. I don't know what it would've done to the game if I'd accepted, but either way, a big warning telling me that something is going to be scary only serves to make me more scared, Mobius. It started ominously enough when the game threw a little notification at me suggesting that I might want to turn on a special fright-free mode that won't make me pee in my office chair.