The notorious scene of a ghost child operating full pace right into a wall from the unique Layers of Fear won’t be within the upcoming collection remake.
This comes through Damian Kocurek, inventive director at Anshar Studios, the studio dealing with the remake in collaboration with Bloober Team. He sat down to speak in regards to the sport with me on the tail finish of GDC this week.
The sport, a frankly spectacular Unreal Engine 5 remake of each Layers of Fear 1 and a couple of (with some model new content material as properly) has acquired slight adjustments to minor components of the sport. Yes, this consists of the infant wipeout, which was eliminated because it “would not match with what we try to do in that individual a part of the sport.”
Following making this resolution, the staff thought of including it someplace else within the sport as an easter egg, nonetheless determined to only reduce it. Asking whether or not this was a tough option to make, Kocurek sighed, then responded: “Yeah. There are a variety of selections like that. There are a variety of issues that folks keep in mind for one purpose or one other, and it’s important to determine whether or not it’s factor for all the expertise or not.”
He’d proceed by mentioning that the staff tried to maintain as a lot as they might, re-placing sure small encounters or occasions to different components of the sport to make it extra intense. The child, sadly, did not have a spot that made sense.
Obviously some individuals will discover this unhappy. The second, whereas humorous, was an entertaining a part of the unique sport for a lot of. That being mentioned, the sport is meant to be scary. A ghost child operating head first right into a wall, an occasion which may be looped endlessly till you’ll be able to’t muster a chuckle, blatantly would not match the temporary for the supposed tone in Layers of Fear.
As for Kocurek’s expectations relating to neighborhood response, he is not frightened about it. “While it’s a component that form of stands out in individuals’s minds, Layers of Fear is much more than this. It’s the temper, the theme… we’re attempting to hone in on that and provides them the very best expertise we are able to. In service of that, I consider it was the suitable selection.”
So there now we have it, the infant wipeout isn’t any extra. To expertise it your self, you may have to return to the unique Layers of Fear. We’ve acquired one other article targeted on our interview with Kocurek coming subsequent week, there’s extra to the collection than one meme’d second in spite of everything, so keep watch over this house for that!
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