Thankfully, Nippon-Ichi Software delivered, with Yomawari: Night Alone, a hauntingly beautiful game that is just as charming as it is brutal. It doesn’t help that after my disappointment last year with Corpse Party: B lood Drive (though you can see what one of my compatriots thought of it here) I was chomping at the bit for some good J-Horror, especially in time for Halloween. It’d explain my fascination with the Twilight Syndrome series, at any rate. Maybe it’s in how it’s unashamedly steeped with Japanese culture and religious traditions, standing in direct contrast to mainstream American horror’s shy avoidance of its own origins maybe it’s the tension and atmosphere, pressing down on the player and suffocating them when done right, and eliciting more than a few giggles when done horribly or maybe I’m just a sucker for playing as really stupid schoolgirls running around in some derelict location after hours. Jokes aside, I’ve never quite been able to shake myself of the J-horror genre, even when I started writing about import games on a barely-updated blog around six years ago.
Feel free to hold back your thunderous excitement. Oh man, Jennifer’s reviewing another Japanese Horror game? I know, it’s shocking.
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