G4TV: Just a couple days ago we shed some light on some potentially horrifying games from your childhood that you might not have realized were so disturbing. Halloween's coming closer and closer though, and you're probably wishing you had some intentionally nerve-wrackingly frightening games to rip into. Forget Dead Space or Silent Hill. You've gone through them a million times anyway. Instead, trick or treat with five criminally underrated horror games, each a little off the beaten path but still ripe with enough scares to warrant leaving every single light in the house on and at least as scary as Iwazaru's "voice" in Killer7. Put on your big girl pants and let's go.
FreeckyCake writes: "Haunting Ground (Demento in Japan) is a survival horror title that uses assets from Resident Evil 4. But instead of following the formula, it ditches it to bring the player a unique experience that you, unfortunately, won’t find elsewhere. "
I think the criticisms are completely warranted. I loved clock tower 3. Sure it’s ridiculous, but it was really fun and quite brutal. Haunting ground felt lifeless and repetitive. Wandering around a giant maze (the castle) was a chore and the herb crafting/puzzles were tedious. The backtracking was overkill. Being stuck in that castle was a bad idea and should have only been part of the game. What ends up happening is you get tired of it really quick and it’s just going from room to room to room. Same with silent hill 2 hospital levels. Tedious, yet they are only a level and you continue moving forward in the town. You are exploring and making progress. Haunting doesn’t feel like that at all. Great premise, but i personally think clock tower 3 was way better and more fun and was Short and sweet. Never outstayed it’s welcome. Haunting is ok, just not a masterpiece by any means. It’s really boring. When you dread playing a game because of the level design that’s a problem. It’s a chore.
Yes but this wasn’t an opinion this was a total fan boy over reaching and delusional. It’s a hidden gem yes, but masterpiece? when you have games like silent hill 1 and 2, resident evil 2, re4, fatal frame 2 This is quite insulting.
I respect your opinion, and I think the part where you mentioned the herbs crafting being tedious is sometimes valid, but at the same time, it was made to be that way. I assume that if they made it easier, that would have made Fiona quite OP early on.
Clock Tower 3 had its good and bad moments. Alyssa's movements were kind of slow, she can't even run from all those stalkers, but I definitely liked the boss fights. Fighting your enemies using a bow just because you're a Rooder was a fine addition, and the sudden appearance of enemies was quite challenging too.
However, Clock Tower 3 had no exploration, Haunting Ground had. You could literally explore the entire the castle in the end ( before the final boss) or each time you outwit a boss. So, yeah, there's definitely some exploration to do in the castle and I haven't felt bored of that castle personally. In fact, I found the castle to be designed well and full of things to do. It kind of reminds me of Temi-ni-gru from DMC 3. Both are great and each corner in the castle is either a reference to Clock Tower or a horror material.
What I liked about Haunting Ground is its atmosphere, and that itself is an improvement over Clock Tower 3. Plus, fighting your enemies by only solving puzzles was a fine addition that I fell in love with immediately after defeating Debilitas.
To each his own I guess, but Haunting Ground was definitely an ambitious project by Capcom.
I agree both had good and bad as essentially haunting ground is Clock Tower 4. I really wanted to love haunting ground but the design and endless rooms really took me out of it. It’s good, just not what it could have been.
@Bathory666
I found Haunting Ground to be better than Fatal Frame 2. No need to change my mind, and I think you should learn to respect others' opinions before accusing them of something they aren't. I have to always remind myself that N4G users are just gamers who play mainstream stuff. It's funny how you want to impose your opinion, but I can't. Talk about double-standards.
Just another Capcom title they put out and magically forgotten all about like Clock Tower, Dino Crisis, Breath of Fire. I enjoy this game and play it from time to time it needs a remake or reboot same with Dino Crisis, Clock Tower and Breath of Fire.
Capcom has a plethora of dead IPs that may never make a comeback.
* Looks at Maximo *
Maximo is a name i havent heard in a while. That'd be such a great announcement.
Omg i love Maximo what a great game that was. Sad army of zin never released on psn.
I remember playing this game and found it difficult and the controls were not so great. But it’s also creepy and still a pretty good game overall IMO.
Yeah it’s ok. Masterpiece was just wow. He must be smoking some pretty good herb
Lol i know that was a fanboy article big time. I love survival horror to death, but let’s be realistic. It’s Definitely good, a solid 7/10, but not a masterpiece by any stretch.
Sadly, I'm not a fanboy, I played a lot of Capcom survival horror games and other underrated titles from them.
MonsterVine: "October is the month of Halloween, so what better time to sit down and play some spooky games? Here are a few of my top picks (in no particular order) for spooky games–which are not necessarily all horror games–to play this month. "
Old video games can be ridiculously expensive. Rarity is the common theme among the most expensive titles, no matter how unimpressive the game is.
Haunting Ground was an amazing game a truly rare gem by Capcom.
good list overall, i would add Deadly Premonition and SH4
Extermination for ps2 is my pick.
Have to agree, Haunting Ground was a brilliant game that I would like to see make it's way to the PS2 Classics on PSN along with Rule of Rose.
Siren
http://youtu.be/rmSZ5kh84Mk
Amnesia
http://youtu.be/fcigfe4ej2A
Socom Confrontation
I was so scared of what might load up, had bugs been fixed, I still wake up in cold sweats screaming and crying just thinking about it... be afraid people be very afraid
Lair-for being so horrifying to control using motion control it still gives me headaches.
Final Fantasy 13-so horrible and terrifying how it destroyed one of my favorite classic franchise I still can't believe it wasn't just a nightmare.
Catherine-for making me feel like I was in the twilight zone and Body Snatcher movie when I thought the game was so lame and stupid but everybody kept saying it was the next Jesus Christ coming