Normally when I can tell you’re trying to shock me, the horror just dissolves itself as premature and needy. I actually thought that at first when playing Dead Space 2.
Why are there toddler armies that sprint at you? Why are there babies that explode when they get close to you?
Were the crawlers from the first game not enough?
It’s not like they’re “necromorphs” in the same sense, they still sound like children and still move like them. Crawlers do not, and we’re actually pretty creative.
The only positive side is the babies and toddlers allow for more interesting gameplay because it’s more like COD zombies where you have to run around and clump them together and shoot them all.
HOWEVER… there was a scene in the 6th game where I genuinely felt the horror come back. You’re in a nursery and a child’s theater play was happening. Throughout the chapter, kiddy music was playing the whole time and it felt stupid.
But then once you turn the power off to open a door, everything ceases, the music stops, and an eerie silence fills the void. It was the first time I felt genuinely scared about what was going to happen next. Sometimes in horror, less is more.
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