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You are onboard this vessel to develop your method for playing the role of a lifetime it’s so important that the ship’s crew have strict orders to leave you and the rest of the production the hell alone. You wake up on a massive cruise ship early in the 20 th century, and from clues gleaned from your opulent quarters you ascertain that you are a stage actor of some renown. The story to Layers of Fear 2 is a bit difficult to get a handle on, as the game dumps you right into it with very little context.

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If you’re new to Bloober’s horror series like me, beware: this studio is out to bend your mind, make you jump out of your chair, and impart some truly disturbing concepts and images to you. I missed out on their freshman effort, the original Layers of Fear, but I was duly impressed (and freaked out) by their mind-sifting cyberpunk masterpiece _Observer, which made me eager to jump into their latest game, Layers of Fear 2.

Polish studio Bloober Team is one of those rare developers that tackles a horror game as if it were an avant-garde production. Games certainly are built of art, huge quantities and varieties of art, but there are few studios that relentlessly pursue a central thematic element through abstract symbolism. Many modern games, particularly big budget titles, are undeniably massive edifices constructed of sometimes thousands of art assets, toiled away on by dozens of talented painters, modelers, musicians and digital cinematographers.

There aren’t many video games I would consider attempts at fine art.

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