![]() The Oni can appear at any time and from any direction, and often you’re given no warning as to when he’s about to come and try to eat you. Thus, when he appears, you have no choice but to run away from him and try to lose him (by evading him for a specific amount of time) or by hiding in certain places around the mansion (though, in true Clock Tower fashion, not all hiding places are good ones). You can’t fight against him, so if he catches Hiroshi, it means instant death. He appears at both random and preset points during your exploration of the game (by preset, I mean he’ll appear after you solve a puzzle or find a clue, a la Nemesis from Resident Evil 3 and by random, I mean that he can literally ambush you as you move between rooms) and proceeds to chase you around the house. ![]() The mechanics of Ao Oni‘s antagonist are rather simple, and this is what makes him so terrifying. However, there’s a bit more to it than that: as you make your way through the mansion, you’re constantly being stalked by the titular Ao Oni (Japanese for “purple troll”) and it’s this simple addition that, much like in the Clock Tower games, makes Ao Oni one tense game to play. In this sense, Ao Oni plays pretty much like a standard horror adventure/puzzle game involving gathering items, solving logic puzzles, finding clues, backtracking with keys, and all those traditional elements of games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill. Your goal is to move Hiroshi through a series of 2D, top down rooms (rendered in typical 16 bit fashion) exploring the mansion and trying to find a way to escape after something traps you inside. In it, you take control of a high schooler named Hiroshi who, along with three other friends, decides to explore an abandoned mansion on the outskirts of town that is said to be haunted. It was originally released in Japan, and has since been translated into English (albeit with a very basic translation – see further in this article). What I found was Ao Oni, and it managed to scare me very much.Īo Oni is a freeware indie game made with RPG Maker XP (freely available here though you must have the RPG Maker XP RTP installed to run it) that plays a lot like the original Clock Tower game. To this end, I took to Google and Youtube to find myself some obscure horror games to play. I love being scared (provided the media I’m consuming is presented masterfully enough to actually scare me) and horror video games are my favourite form of horror, due to the fact that a well done horror game usually makes me feel helpless and out of my depth. Most relevant to this blog post, though, I play horror video games. I read horror stories (and I write them, too). ![]() It’s no great secret that I love the horror genre.
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