![]() (Fun trivia: the apartment is the same one used in Blooper Team’s cyberpunk first person adventure Observer.) The old man has passed away, and growing up in the family business means Marianne is comfortable living in a building where the basement has her mentor on a cold metallic slab. This means a stunning but cramped feeling of being watched yet also being utterly alone in an apartment that houses Marianne, a hungry cat (feed it for an achievement!), and not much else. Exploration is key here as Blooper Team gets players used to playing with a fixed camera for the first time ages. Opening in a quiet but tense funeral parlor, Marianne’s only goal is to prep her late adoptive father for service. Unease and a good mystery await, so hit X to enter The Further, The Upside Down, or wherever our hero Marianne (voiced by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn) goes that has serious creepy rusted Silent Hill vibes. Could this have been ported to lower-powered consoles? Maybe, but that’s a question the Polish developer seemed wise not to answer considering CD Project Red’s not-so-great launch of that cyberpunky game starring Keanu Reeves last month. ![]() The only downside is that it is only for Series X/S and PC (Meaning no Playstation or last-gen Xbox versions). Why? Well, beyond being a solid scare-fest, it’s also free if you own GamePass for your Xbox Series X/S or PC. Fans of Resident Evil would be as silly as not using ink ribbons on Hardcore mode to not take this journey to a new place, with a new character, and best of all, a new way to play while they wait for the release of Resident Evil: Village in May. Psychological horror veteran indulges in some weird séance with The Medium. E347 is on sale now: survival horror genre receives a welcome new potential franchise with Blooper Team’s old school fixed camera third-person tale, The Medium. The Medium will launch this year for Xbox Series X and PC. ![]() You can see this part of the interview below. Not to mention, composer Akira Yamaoka will do some music for the game, who is closely associated with Silent Hill. It’s not the first time the comparison has been made, as the its been said the gameplay is also similar to Silent Hill and other similar horror games of the time. He was open to say that the game, as well as all of their previous games, take a lot of influence from the series, but does say he doesn’t want The Medium to just be a copy, but he wants the game to be seen in a similar vein to how some action RPGs are Souls-likes and borrow form Dark Souls, even cheekily calling it a Hills-like, but that will stand on its own. Specifically, he talked about one influence that many people picking up on immediately from the iconic Silent Hill franchise. ![]() Producer Jacek Zięba also took part in the interview and mentioned the game’s influence. So the story is crafted in a way that you reveal more and more information, and hopefully it will change your point of view about other characters and events.” “Playing as a medium gives you a unique vantage point beyond the reach of ordinary people. ![]() “Nothing is simple, nothing is black and white,” he said. Something they hope to translate to plot and gameplay. He says it’s about how nothing is black and white, and using the ability of a spiritual medium will open up new perspectives, and that nothing is exactly what it seems to be in the end. In an interview with Edge magazine, who was kind enough to post part of it in their Twitter below (issue 347), Lead Game Designer Wojciech Piejko spoke briefly about the game’s plot and theme, but not enough to give any in-depth details. But what’s it about? Well, it seems they aren’t quite ready to get into the details on that just yet, but in some ways, it might be what’s not about that’s interesting. The trailer was a spooky one, and developer Bloober Team aims to use next generation hardware to create some disturbing stuff. Being unveiled at May’s Inside Xbox event, it was one of the next generation only titles that was unveiled. It’s always fun when a game can sneak up on you out of nowhere, and I think it’s fair to say that The Medium was one of those titles. ![]()
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