
If you’re looking for action, blood, gore, or quick frights it won’t likely do it for you but if you’re willing to let its slow burn style get going you’ll find it’s a satisfyingly creepy and unnerving journey. By contrast, Layers of Fear 2 more often than not gets the formula right, slowly teasing out details to clue you in to what is going on, relying more on a sense of building dread than cheap thrills, and integrating in puzzles in a variety of ways that are often novel. COG writes: Originally released in 2019, Layers of Fear 2 has finally made it over onto the Nintendo Switch. Whether reliant on cheap jump scares that quickly grow tired, an overabundance of objects you can examine pointlessly dragging things down, or simply by outright being dull they just have been lacking the right combination of elements to make them stand out. Layers of Fear 2 is striking in its unsettling places, but is a looser experience than its predecessor, losing the player with busywork puzzles and winding. The Switch has become home to a vast array of horror titles over its relatively short life, including multiple entries from big-hitters such as Resident Evil to the likes of Layers of Fear and. The house appears straightforward at first, but it warps and.


Whether “Walking simulators” that play out as horror titles on the Switch, more often than not, have tended to be a bit of a bust for me. Disorientating the player by sweeping aside norms of space and time is what this game does best, and what powers its dense atmosphere. “Walking simulators” that play out as horror titles on the Switch, more often than not, have tended to be a bit of a bust for me.
