Halloween review challenge (contest over; Winner - Alyssa)

Given that Halloween is upon us and I know a few of us have a bunch of horror related things sitting on our shelves, I (and by I, I mean myself and Aevers) thought "why not set up this challenge??"

The rules are simple:

Review as many horror games/movies/books as you possibly can from now until November 15th at the stroke of midnight. For reference, the time zone is UTC+9:30.

Straight up horror is preferred, but anything with significant horror elements counts too. That much is up to Aevers and myself to judge. Something like Dead Island or Resident Evil 5 would require a lengthy discussion between us, for instance.

The winner isn't the one who submits the most reviews, but the one who submits the best review. I'll be the judge of that. The only reason I suggested that you write as many as possible is so that we can help out the site more by submitting a wide range of reviews.

As far as prizes are concerned, Lukas is more than willing to buy the winner either a copy of Caster, Tiny And Big: Grandpas's Leftovers or Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic. If you have all three of those games, then it'll be whatever is the daily or three day deal on Steam. If you have that as well, then the second place user will nab your prize.

Above all else, have fun!

Good luck to all who enter! Direct any and all questions towards myself or Aevers.

Spoiler:Really cool guy tags

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Interesting. Just need to figure out if I do actually have anything to review. I suppose I have Project Zero (aka Fatal Frame) if I can be bothered to hook my xbox back up again and I need to figure out if The Void fits the theme.

Hmmm, I'll have to do some research on a Horror game I can play. Im an RPG kinda guy so Koudelka and Shadow Hearts 1 or 2 could be an option. Something to think about....

EDIT

Sweet home (NES)

Parasite Eve (PS1)

it's on!

Edit: Sep 26, 12 2:29am

Alright! I'm starting with sweet home and planescape torment

Ahh, not really into horror games I'm sorry. I'll still try to submit a few non-horror reviews during that time to make up for it, though.

Too bad I don't like horror games. Even if I played one I don't think I would love it or hate it enough to write a review (because I never write "in the middle" reviews).

EDIT: Scratch that. Corpse Party and IB look interesting. Chances of getting either game are close to none though. Shipping times and the like.

And here I was hoping I'd get the first entry in, but you beat me to it Hell Fire.

Well, your Sweet Home review is on the site, and so is my The Void review.

quote Hell Fire

Awesome!

I'm enjoying this contest. It encourages me to play games that I would probably be unnoticed my entire life. I think these should be a more regular occurrence. For example, maybe a contest where we have a play a game with the word "Legend" in it.

Agreed, although you would want to notify everyone a couple of months in advance as Saga says - it will give those of us who don't have one lying around time to get one!


As far as this contest goes, I've been playing through Dead Space especially for it. It being one of the first horror games I've played, and myself being a hideous coward, bricks are being shat on a nightly basis. I hope you appreciate it.