Layers of Fear Inheritance Gameplay Walkthrough Layers of Fear Inheritance is a kind of remake from the original, kind of. An extension if you will of the original game. And Layers of Fear Inheritance DLC provides that 2nd go at intriguing plots and scary surprises. But Bloober developers don't really deliver on both. Layers of Fear used every opportunity they could to provide a scary and frightening experience for the players. But LOF: Inheritance has its fair share of scares and loud scary noises from dogs barking close to doors seemingly slamming shut on their own. All of which fill you with a sense of terror.
This time round though, it seems there is a more fallible storyline that will interest you. And feel you with a sense of dread and remorse and something or a innate sense of madness. While the game's developers have ended the father and mother's story to a close. Leaving you to wonder what happened to their daughter. You are once again playing in the insanely scary halls of the manor house. Taking up the role of a woman who is not new to the insanity that ripped apart her family home and robbed her of her childhood. The game is the same as before in that you'll be interacting with things using your keyboard and mouse. Such as opening doors and drawers. All to see what's on the other side. All in the quest to find out if the painter's daughter will forgive her dad for pouring himself into his work and not
her. You'll be revisiting the same areas where previous trauma abounded. And finding out if the estate is haunted by a ghost or the estate is the ghost! The mansion itself is overridden by years of mould, rot and disease. You'll be mostly going through the narrations with flashback scenes. And if you're too scared to check out the basement, you can meander around the office or the bedrooms. And once you start searching, your memories start coming back with the more than you find. Such as the closet filled with mouse traps which takes you back to a scene of the old days. Picture the scene, you're crawling around in your hiding space and you can hear the voice of your father outside who thinks that rats are taking up a permanent residence in the old mansion. As he proceeds toward your door, each footstep seems to get louder and more angrier with each step. Should you lock the door and hide from his massive anger or should he find you playing in an area that is far from safe for kids to play in? Neither paints a very good picture of a man not known for his gentle and compassionate side.
There are many scenes in Layers of Fear Inheritance that play out differently depending on what you do. And in the DLC you can unlock different endings depending on what you did in the game. If you're staring at a photo for too long a time or up and leg it from that spooky spectre and you might just find that it's turned into some portrait of death before you even realize. You won't find silliness like that though. You wont be able to get rid of the feeling that you've missed out on some details and you'll have to build up the daughter's own recreation of her
wayward childhood. Like when creating a canvas to paint on and choosing the right brushes for the artwork. Each invoking a response and bringing back some distant memories. Knowing how her dad was infamous for his evil tirade of abuse and outbursts. Are you able to cover it up with your own love for him? You'll face harsh criticism while painting the picture. And while she hopes her father meant well. The flashbacks take you to a place where things are twisted beyond what you or I might call "normal". The girl soon realizing that her father didn't want a little girl but rather someone to follow in his footsteps.
But for all of this, these scenes do matter and there is a narrative to them all. It won't really matter what route you take in the mansion, you'll still find the artist is a miserable sod and tragic excuse for a father let alone a human being. And this doesn't help come the time you have to paint his portrait and not make any mistakes lest you invoke his anger. Playing this for the second time right, some of these scenes make a little more sense but the paint and crayon scenario didn't play out properly in my mind until I switched to the alternative option and saw the events fold out in having to create a portrait of your father and make sure to get all the colors right. Layers of Fear Inheritance tries to make you jump out of your seat scared but it does it too many times. When you open a door for example a dog jumps out out you. Walking down a hall in the mansion and you hear something coming up behind you or once again, jump out in front of you. It's like waiting for someone to reach out to the camera. You are half expecting a scare in every scene and the game developers have seemingly over tried to make them happen.
But the game developers at Bloober don't have to try and scare you to make you have that scary feeling. Rather it relies on it's horribly horrifying images to install that within you. Preying on your own imagination. What you see is a world unfold in the eyes of the daughter. But you know what really gets me? Is the teasing part. Trying to tease me into being scared. The paranoia that it builds up by the poltergeist that can do you harm whenever it sees fit. It might just snap your neck too if you made it cross, and the chills that come about provide a real sinister atmosphere. Plus the setting inspires fear and tension and you can't go very long without some kind of scary thing happening that gives you goosebumps! This Layers of Fear Inheritance Gameplay Walkthrough Playthrough was played on the PC. Courtesy of Gavabunga on YouTube.