![]() ![]() This complete lack of action left me sighing and staring at the clock wondering when the game would end. This is only briefly broken up by the horrible combat or a PTSD attack. Most of the game is spent walking through the woods as you follow Bullet to the next location. Blair Witch is almost all down time with very little horror bits. A horror game needs down time to make the horror bits all the more terrifying. ![]() The poor enemy design is also paired with horrendous pacing. It’s hard to be scared at an enemy who is just running head first into a tree as it fails to get to you. ![]() You barely see them and when you do they are often stuck on a tree. I use the term fight loosely here because it comes down to pointing your flashlight where Bullet is growling and then the spirit dies. The main foes you will “fight” in Blair Witch are spirits of some kind. Not like any of the other enemies are any more interesting. Who said you only walk through the woods? You also ride a rail cart for about ten seconds. It wasn’t long before I was rolling my eyes as I saw more dead soldiers on the ground. In practice, however, Ellis has so many PTSD attacks they quickly lose any novelty they offered. In theory, this would make it difficult to tell what is happening and what is a figment of Ellis’s tortured mind. ![]() Ellis’s fragile mind is played around with a lot in the story. Throughout the story, Ellis will have panic attacks that transport him back into the war. It doesn’t take long for you to see how Ellis’s PTSD impacts him. Ellis finds object, Bullet sniffs object, Bullet leads Ellis to new objects, Ellis has a panic attack, rinse and repeat. It also makes the game incredibly repetitive. This has the side effect of making the game feel like follow the leader. Outside of petting him and giving him treats, that’s all he does. Bullet sniffs things and then takes the player to them. Dogs make every game 100% better! Still, he could have been implemented much better here. Well, really it is Bullet doing all the searching. Bullet really is the best part of this game. ![]()
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