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Can Resi 7 possibly sustain this for a whole game, or is a move to fisticuffs and gunplay only inevitable?īecause, please, do not let this reference to Stuff lure you into thinking Beginning Hour is even remotely an action-led affair.

No amount of scoffing at cheap stunts such as things falling over or something walking past the doorway then disappearing could change that.

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It's because it so rarely does, and thus always unexpected when something does kick off, that I can never relax.Ĭompare this to Resis past, where the general feeling is that, when trouble is encountered, it will be a question of how to deal with it, not a) oh god oh god oh god what even is it b) will it or will it not kill me immediately? I was terrified. It's combination of perspective, pace and tone: when walking down a corridor, every step feels like agony, that dread certainty that something unspeakable is about to happen. They're too campy or too obvious or I just can't buy into the idea that it's actually me, not a Gameperson, in that place. At which point, the demo may end - or you may be funnelled into new areas. There are noises from around, above and below, but in the main, little happens. You look around, find other rooms, find objects which open up other rooms still, and in the main you encounter decay - but there is no knowing how long this has been the case, or even the cause of it. Your only directive is to escape the house. The setup: you, as an unnamed, first-person protagonist, awaken in a darkened and decrepit room. I should mention that the demo looks great and runs well too - the tech powering it seems to be extremely efficient. But, thanks to a combination of pure mood and a structure that means much of this stuff spools out according to how you explore rather than playing out linearly, it works bloody well.

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It's trope-tastic from the get-go too, and doesn't let up: spooky cabin, fridge full of rotting food, flickering lights, staticky VHS tapes, mannequin's fingers, random animal carcasses, jump scares on the stairs, ruined dolls, something in the basement. was more about weirdness with sporadic moments of nauseating terror, whereas Resi 7 is straight-up horror from the get-go. any more, but in any case I'll note that these similarities don't make the two into copies of each other. Granted, this is somewhat academic given that Silents Hills is canned and it's near impossible to get hold of P.T. Both are first-person and combat free, both are set within a locked house strewn with grotesque sights, jump scares and low-key puzzling, and both yield different secrets depending on how they are played.

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At least, that's the case in the enormously unsettling demo, Resident Evil 7 / Biohazard 7 Teaser: Beginning Hour - much may change in the full game.Ĭomparisons to P.T., the notorious PS4 demo for an ultimately axed Kojima/Del Toro Silent Hills project, have been made, and fairly so. 7's the biggest shake-up yet, ditching the age-old third-person camera in favour of a claustrophobic first-person view, and broadly replacing action with investigation.

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Resident Evil 7 biohazard aka Biohazard 7 resident evil (they're up to something there, no?) also makes it clear-cut that this is a series about reinvention, even if it tends to return to familiar characters and tropes time and again. There could be no more fitting name for its new house of horrors than Resident Evil. With the demo for the upcoming Resident Evil 7, that debate is over. Debate's long raged/wanked on about whether we in the West should really call the Resident Evil series by its Japan-given name, Biohazard.

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