We also have our first track for a release date!
In 2018, after a four-year early access period (!!), Endnight Games, an independent publisher made up of Hollywood visual effects artists, launched The forest, an immersive first-person survival horror game, for PC and PlayStation 4. The game was a commercial and critical success, piling up comparisons with other notable titles like Do not starve and The last of us, and mixing surreally horrible images with a sense of hope. Now, we have the trailer for your initial sequence, Children of the Forest. And holy cannoli, this trailer grabs me and doesn’t let go.
Using an unorthodox sense of sound design and editing, his 1980s John Carpenter synth-bump score going in and out to stay in sync with the peculiarly noticeable heel cuts, this look for Children of the Forest promises a very different view of the now familiar mode of survival horror video games. The graphics are simply amazing (a hint about this possibly being released on PlayStation 5?), The mutants seen in these weakened forests are surreal and horrible, the brief vignettes that happened are even more shocking in broad daylight, and the crafting system it looks immersively robust as always. And a particular sequence, in which its main character enigmatically puts on a horror movie mask, makes me anxious to find out what all of this could mean. I did not play The forest, and in just 90 seconds, I should play your sequence as soon as possible.
Children of the Forest deals with game systems in 2021, although we are not sure of the date and which specific systems yet, and whether there will be an equally long early access period. Check out his scary trailer below.
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