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Song of Horror is a great experience that packs in the nostalgia but doesn’t rely on it to carry it through. It has plenty of its own identity and ideas mixed in and despite a few annoyances along the way, I had a great, albeit terrifying time and this truly felt like I had once again stepped into the world of Survival Horror.

Song of Horror is a fantastic take on the horror genre. Usually, I don’t go in for these games but I thought I would at least try, after a few hours it had me hooked. It’s a 3rd person game that has you choosing a character and going into a location to get clues about a missing writer called Sebastian. What awaits you is a fixed perspective game that uses an entity known only as a Presence and it will be always chasing you down and you can never fight it, listen to doors to avoid danger, slam doors onto the Presence in order to survive. It’s a fantastic game as it does a lot of things right from using light sources as the main tool in finding things, the levels are well planned out and allow freedom whilst staying on task, the horror is jump scare heavy but it creates such tense anxiety-ridden atmosphere that you will be always on edge. Song of Horror can and will be played many times, it’s a game everyone will experience differently but make no bones about it, Song of Horror is a fantastic ride.

Desde luego el subtítulo del juego de «Fear the presence» está muy bien escogido, ya que la sensación de que algo maligno nos rodea y nos acecha en cada rincón, es algo que experimentamos de continuo. Desde Área Xbox No podemos más que felicitar al estudio madrileño de Protocol Games por poner el listón tan alto y por «empeñarse» en sacar el juego pese a contar con dos Kickstarters fallados antes de poder lanzar el juego.

Protocol Games y Raiser Games han hecho el juego de terror que muchos de nosotros llevamos años soñando. Song of Horror tiene una experiencia de terror lenta, tensa y llena de elementos que te lleva de vuelta a los clásicos survival horror de la epoca de los 32 bits pero con los gráficos de ahora. Disfrutarás resolviendo puzzles y escuchando la presencia a la vuelta de la esquina mientras desbloqueas el espeluznante misterio, pero que la muerte de un personaje sea permanente no gustará a todos. Aún así, Song of Horror es una carta de amor para los amantes de los survival horror.