Obviously I won’t spoil anything, but I will say that the implementation of the dog and the plot involved is handled incredibly well and Blair Witch deserves incredible kudos for basically everything involving the dog. He’ll simply sniff around, find an item, then bark towards it until the player picks it up. But even beyond that, the player’s dog Bullet can be told to “seek” any nearby items of interest.
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Sometimes there are literally instruction manuals to help. The puzzles are, generally, finding pieces of things around the map and then using those things to make something happen. Plus, the player’s dog is a built-in help system that works rather brilliantly. Personally, I found most of them braindead easy, but for pacing reasons, that’s probably okay. That is, assuming the puzzles go smoothly. Things are revealed at a solid pace, and there is not a long stretch of time without being given the next reveal, either about Ellis himself or the plot to find the boy. Much of the characterization happens through phone calls with a former relationship partner and flashbacks. Luckily, it’s easy to get lost in the story and be wrapped up in the main character’s plight. The gameplay is rather straightforward (I’d hesitate to call it a walking simulator but I can see others doing so), and as such, a lot of the enjoyment rests on the plot and environment. The main character, Ellis, along with the help of his dog Bullet, is helping the town search for a lost boy within the Black Hills Forest from the movies. Blair Witch has plenty of that - the entire game takes place in some dark and gloomy woods.
So what makes something worthy of the Blair Witch franchise? Obviously, we need some woods. The video game does a lot of things right but it falls a bit short of what I think the series does best: messing with the audience’s perception of reality.īlair Witch (Xbox One, Windows )
The second, destroyed by producers, became a lesson in what not to do with a sequel.
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The first film was such a masterpiece of marketing and a tremendous lesson on how to make basically no budget work for you. But after completing the Blair Witch game, I’ve done a lot of thinking about what this series really is. I completely forgot there was a third from 2016 and I’ve never seen it. I have a special place in my heart for the Blair Witch films.
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