After having an extensive talk about The Path with Intern Perry, Allison Boyer decides to give his horror game a try to see what the fuss is about. Go to source to check the review (spoilers are marked so you can skip over if you wish).

Made by Tale of Tales, an indy company out of Belgium, The Path is a horror game based on the story of Little Red Riding Hood. For those of you who don’t know the history behind that fairy tale, the moral of the story was that strange men can’t be trusted. The Path is a completely new look at that idea. You’re given a very simple task - one by one, get each girl to grandma’s house, which is at the end of a path. Don’t stray from said path into the woods. Just get to grammy.

And if you do that? You fail. The whole point of the game is to break the only rule (stay on the path) and go out into the forest to explore.

In the forest, there are items for each girl to find, 144 flowers to collect, and 6 different “wolves” - one for each girl. there’s no clear navigation system to find the bad guys or objects (at least, not apparent at first), and the girls walk very slowly. We’re talking Romero zomie slowly.

I hesitate to call this a game. It is really more of an experience, and a horrible one at that. But that’s the point. If you aren’t unsettled and slightly sickened by The Path, check your pulse. You may be dead.

PacoDG via bingegamer.net »