Analysis of self-deception

The monsters are coming for you

Roll bread and sometimes you bring us a game of first person horror in which we will have to survive a series of monsters that will come for us. Self-Delusion is a survival game with horror accents already released in 2022 on PC and available on Xbox consoles.

Control and mechanics

Self-Delusion has simple control based on the movement of our character and an interaction button to be able to open doors and pick up many objects that will be important to us. We have the sensitivity option for the camera but we still end up with imprecise control in terms of character rotation since the rotation movement is slow, in addition to the lack of precision when interacting with objects, making, for example, To be able to open 3 drawers of a piece of furniture, you have to do it slowly.

The objective of the game will be to survive several days to be able to advance in each of the chapters, which will present us with a different challenge. One of the most common scenarios in a country house in which we will have several rooms in which we can access and interact with various elements such as matches, candles, an oven, trunks that will help us move on to the next chapters.

Terror

Dark areas, light shows, loud sound, and jump scares are the ingredients that make Self-Delusion seek to make us jump out of our seats when we play. Yes, I have sometimes been afraid of an enemy that jumps when stepped on, even if the sound is sometimes deafening. In terms of horror, I feel like it’s included in a very forced and imposed way with unbalanced acoustic and visual elements that do more to disturb than anything else.

Visually a little tight scenarios with poorly defined 3D resources do not allow you to easily engage in the experience that the game wants to offer. The whole game is designed with children’s elements such as toys, stuffed animals and an orphanage since we will spend time going through different classes to access each of the chapters.

Monster here monster there

Practically in each chapter we find a different monster, first in a specific area in which we can escape them but then we will have to face them in the forest house where we can only protect ourselves from them, but having an objective clear, who has 1 hour left alive (in the game, it’s a few minutes) to continue moving forward.

Each monster will be different visually, way of moving and way of avoiding it, so we will have to remember each of them because there is no way to fight them, if they find us we will have to start the level again . In general, you need to be stealthy, watch your step, and use lights to help us emerge victorious in most situations.

Conclusions

Self-Delusion is a first-person horror game that seeks to force the feeling of terror with a confrontation with Slavic monsters different from each other, although graphically the game is not very detailed where poor quality textures and poorly defined 3D models. the complex of experiences to enter into.

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