8/18/2023 0 Comments Slice it all online gameKiller Frequency is out now on PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, and Nintendo Switch. Even if you feel like you’ve trapped them or churned them through a grinder, the killer is always back for one good scare. And, unlike the many asymmetrical multiplayer games dedicated to the slasher genre, where only emergent moments can deliver those perfect horror movie feelings, this tight narrative can constantly hit you with slasher movie intensity.Īnd that’s because, as every good Shape or Ghostface knows, the killer always gets back up. But importantly, this isn’t just full of references and nods. Nearly every street name is a director or famous scary locale. This is a game in love with horror movies, and slasher movies in particular. Killer Frequency knows its source material as well as you do. Even if you did feel like you were about to choke on your own heart five minutes ago. Take call… save a life from a masked maniac… spin some sweet ‘80s synth to calm down. And switching out records, which was once so cosily satisfying at the start of the game, remains a reassuring activity. It’s understood that we’ll need time to breathe and the conversations between Forrest and Peggy the producer - who sits in silhouette form on the other side of the studio glass - are always a pleasing source of gentle dark comedy. There’s a carefully pitched narrative flow here. Every call has a solution somewhere in the radio station, and while you can just guess the responses - who are you, Norman Bates? - the chances of your caller seeing daylight the next day will improve dramatically if you go looking.Īnd it’s not all endless stress. At one point a newspaper editor hides in his office as the killer methodically searches room by room, meaning that we’re left with staring at a helpfully faxed map trying to work out where to send the panicked man next. Killer Frequency’s puzzling too is devilishly inventive. Want to help a screaming jogger jump start a car without keys as the killer lurks? Good thing there’s a show for petrolheads on the station and there might be something helpful around the presenter’s desk. And how do we do that? Well, while most of Killer Frequency is based at your mixing desk as you carefully choose conversation responses to callers, you can also explore the radio station offices where solutions to each murderous problem can be found. We’ve gone from taking occasional sleepy shout outs to calls from soon to be victims and are tasked with attempting to save them from being sliced and diced. Suddenly, we’re at the frontline as the Gallow’s Creek falls prey to a legendary slasher villain. A masked killer who whistles to announce his arrival… That is, until the local 911 operator calls in and asks us to take over the line of the town’s emergency services because the sheriff has been stabbed by a masked killer. It’s almost cosily satisfying as we place records in first person, play and eject cassette tapes like it’s 1994, and chat to late night producer Peggy. We take control as he presents the overnight ‘The Scream’ shift on the local station. Somehow the name of the town of Gallow’s Creek didn’t put off ‘80s radio host Forrest Nash.
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