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Song of Horror (Video Game)

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Song Of Horror is a Survival Horror game by the Spanish studio Protocol Games. They sought funding on Kickstarter in 2015 but failed; undeterred, they spent the four following years working on the game until the first two episodes were released on for PC through Steam on October 31st, 2019. Episode 3 followed on Friday the 13th December, 2019, and the last two episodes came out in March 2020, while the "Complete Edition" hit PS4 and Xbox One on May 27, 2021.The story begins with the vanishing of acclaimed writer, Sebastian P. Husher, along with his family. Worried, his editor sends an assistant to investigate, only for said assistant to also go vanishing. What follows is a chain of events that lead to the discovery of a horrible, incomprehensible... being, simply known as "The Presence" that seems to be behind it all.The game plays primarily like an old-school Survival Horror game such as Alone in the Dark, Resident Evil, or Silent Hill. However, instead of traditional combat, while exploring each location the player will instead be randomly attacked by the Presence, which attempts to kill you in various quick-time events. The key hook is that The Presence is also the A.I. that the game runs on, which switches stuff up every now and then depending on how you play the game, ensuring every play through is different.
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Anyone Can Die
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Anyone Can Die: If one Player Character dies, the story continues from another character's perspective. However, you only have 13 characters across all five episodes, with each episode having a limited selection of them available. If all available characters in an episode die, the episode has to be replayed from the start. The sole exception is Daniel, the main character; dying as him forces you to replay the whole episode.
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Tempting Fate
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Tempting Fate: Argos LeGrant procures a copy of the titular song from the destroyed abbey of St. Cecilia, where the cursed concert took place, deriding the curse as superstitious garbage. He then decides to give it to his family so that they could play it every day. Yikes. It doesn't take much guessing to know it didn't turn out well for him.
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I Need a Freaking Drink
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I Need a Freaking Drink: Invoked with Alexander, who carries a hip flask and can restore some of his Serenity by taking a swig from it.
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Notice This
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Notice This: The items you can interact with are marked by a white diamond symbol. When you get closer, it changes to a more specific icon (a magnifying glass, a cogwheel, etc.) depending on what you can do.
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Ancient Egypt
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Ancient Egypt: A seemingly throwaway paper in the library in Episode 3 explains that pharaoh Akhenaten founded a new religion and ordered the formerly poorly-lit temples to be open-air and well-illuminated. The same paper mentions that sun-disk Aten, Akhenaten's newly appointed Top God, is opposed to a "dark, anthropomorphic figure" that bore arms in a radial manner, a clear description of the Presence.
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Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
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Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Ariadne LeGrant-Amsberg is this. She's essentially a quiet withdrawn old lady who poses no threat but she's eerily casual about the Presence. This is because she's lived with the Presence since she was a baby and thus this represents her normal.
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Awesome, but Impractical
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Awesome, but Impractical: René is the only character with a weapon, in the form of his policeman's service pistol. However, it's not terribly useful as the Presence is an eldritch force and isn't something you can just shoot. All it really does is save René from a couple of instant-death traps, and become a threat to you if he gets turned into a Revenant, since he can now shoot the other player characters dead, and will in fact always do so if he ever appears.
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Artifact of Death
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Artifact of Death: The music box which is the catalyst for the Presence's current manifestations. It was built when Argos LeGrant foolishly wanted a device to make his family listen to the "supposedly cursed" music that laid waste to the St. Cecilia's Abbey.
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Yet Another Stupid Death
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Yet Another Stupid Death: Besides the many different ways to be killed by the Presence, you can also get killed from more mundane mistakes, such as climbing out the wrong window of the attic and falling off the roof, or messing around with an old hand grenade.
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Bleak Level
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Bleak Level: Most of the episodes take place in ordinary locations that are Unexpectedly Abandoned, but episode 4, "The Last Concert", goes to lengths to show the ruin that the Presence can bring. St. Cecilia's Abbey has been left untouched for 85 years since the concert that played the Presence's song, and the place is a derelict ruin left to rot in the snow with all the mummified corpses of the inhabitants still inside. It's even worse when you gain access to the monks' quarters and find the grisly shrine created by the abbot, who was driven to abandon his faith and worship the Presence. Even the appearance of the Revenant for the level is grislier than most, sporting a torn-off arm and a dislocated jaw.
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Smashing Survival
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Smashing Survival: In two quick-time events, you have to button mash to not die. The Presence will at times try to force itself into the room your character is in through a door. To avoid guaranteed death you have to reach the door and repeatedly mash the A button to build up strength, then hit RT to slam the door with your built up strength. The temptation to build up full strength is contrasted with the Presence's efforts, making it a necessity to strategically slam the door at less than full strength to buy time. In a later episode, the Presence will come in through the floor and try to drag you into the abyss, and you're forced to mash the required button to get out. At times, one of its hands will grab hold of one of your arms and you'll have to either hit a certain button beforehand to dodge the grab, or mash that same button to break free.
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Ankle Drag
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Ankle Drag: Sometimes, the Presence will catch the player character by the legs and try to drag them into the abyss. The player can fortunately forcibly escape the Presence's grip by mashing the right buttons.
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Big Fancy House
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Big Fancy House: Sebastian P. Husher's mansion is a rather big manor which constitute a level by itself, having several dozen rooms scattered over four floors from the basement to the attic.
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending: Daniel is taken by the Presence and becomes one of the countless lost souls trying to escape.
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Ominous Music Box Tune
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Ominous Music Box Tune: In-universe. The Presence was initially summoned by a cursed music box and anyone hearing it is doomed to stalked by the Presence.
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Devil, but No God
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Devil, but No God: If you consider the Presence as the Devil. It definitely exists and acts, with no apparent good counterpart, not even faith in God. One of the earliest cases in the plot of the Presence's manifestations is in a Christian abbey, and the monks' faith does not hinder the Presence in the slightest. Additionally, Alexander, one of the playable characters, is pious and often prays in moments of distress, but he's just as vulnerable as any other character.
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Brown Note
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Brown Note: Anyone who listens to the music box is fated to die. Or more specifically taken by the Presence to the Elsewhere.
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Sanity Slippage
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Sanity Slippage: The Serenity stat represents how many hits to their mental state a character can take. Some also have their unique ways of restoring it, from Alexander's flask to Sophie's scented candles.
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Creepy Crosses
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Creepy Crosses: The Christian Cross appears, but never reassuringly: it is scratched in a haphazardous desperate way into the walls, or in the ruin of an abbey tainted by the Presence.
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Face–Monster Turn
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Face–Monster Turn: Should a player character die, there's a chance that they will appear as a Revenant in the chapter they died in, where interacting with them will either result in them killing you, or giving up their personal item for you to use. René is a special case in that he is never friendly: the player absolutely must leave the area if the sound of a gun being cocked is heard, as failing to do so right away will result in him shooting the player character dead.
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Driven to Suicide
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Driven to Suicide: The victims of the music box's curse have a tendency to kill themselves. It seems less like a direct effect of the curse and more of a means to escape the Presence. Since we never see a character that committed suicide return as a Revenant, it seems to work.
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Fake Trap
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Fake Trap: A lot of things will kill you if you interact with them, so you have to be very vigilant, but in Episode 3, there is a door that is suspiciously ajar. Normally, you wouldn't want to open it, lest you be attacked. However, if you don't go in and take the bolt cutters inside, you'll miss out on the collectible item and any character that isn't René is guaranteed to die in the next segment.
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Guide Dang It!
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Guide Dang It!: The fuse puzzle is widely considered a massive roadblock early in the game, as how to solve it is extremely obtuse. Most people just spend half an hour brute forcing the solution. Fortunately, most of the game's other puzzles are much more manageable.
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Chiaroscuro
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Chiaroscuro: The game's art style is deeply biased towards tenebrism. The locations don't exactly want for light sources, but simply put, scattering doesn't exist — shadows are sharp and deep anywhere not being directly bathed in light. Coupled with the periodic flickering of most lamps and fires, this creates an atmosphere that seems murkier than it actually is. Even in the still-image cutscenes, the shadows are drawn in inky black that contrasts sharply with the off-white of the paper surface. Notably, this is absent in the prologue when the evening sun is still out, so the darkness may be a symptom of the Presence's taint.
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Creepy Changing Painting
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In episode 3, you get a set of creepy slides. When used in a projector, the images of the slides change according to the order they're displayed in. Finding the correct sequence is a puzzle.
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For Want of a Nail
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For Want Of A Nail: If you're unable to find the bolt cutters in the first half of episode 3, the character selected for the next section is guaranteed to die. If it's Daniel, the only one required to remain alive, there's no point in even going; you may as well restart the entire episode. Subverted if you play as officer René: he uses his pistol to Shoot Out the Lock.
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Hearing Voices
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Hearing Voices: One of the possible manifestations of the Presence is for the characters to hear a continuous whisper, accompanied by a shadowy wind.
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Reverse Grip
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Reverse Grip: Characters that use flashlights as their light sources all carry it in reverse (tactical) grip. Understandable for René, who's a police officer, and Alina, who routinely works with wiring given her job, but Grace (an arts student), Lydia (a shrink) and Daniel (a publishing firm employee) also do it.
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Eldritch Abomination
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Eldritch Abomination: The Presence. We never find out much about it even by the end, and its motives are completely unknown, though it seems to be implied to have been around at least as long ago as pre-history. What we do know is: it hunts the people who have heard the song it likes; it exists in another dimension; the people that are spirited away by it are used to find other people who have listened to the song; and according to the ending, it transcends time and the victims outright become part of it.
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Haunted Technology
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Haunted Technology: The Presence will affect any footage, from microfiche readers to reel projectors, which can lead to jump scares where a nighmarish face suddenly appears. In Episode 3, this property is exploited in order to reach a "parallel version" of the archives.
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Press X to Die
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Press X to Die: Examining some objects will instantly kill you with no warning. Such objects are thankfully relatively rare and their lethality is foreshadowed, even if vaguely.
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Take Up My Sword
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Take Up My Sword: Both in story and in gameplay. Every time one of your characters dies, they'll leave behind a bag with all their stuff so that the next character can continue. Dr. Berenice discovered how to lift the curse, but she died before she could accomplish anything. Daniel ends up using her findings to get rid of the music box by dropping it off in the Presence's realm.
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Eldritch Location
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Eldritch Location: The place known only as "Elsewhere". There are no maps of it, and they range from rooms within projectors to endless hallways, to pitch black basements.
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Abandoned Hospital
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Abandoned Hospital: Episode 5 happens in the abandoned and derelict Jeremy Hartwood Mental Hospital, the institution where a young Ariadne LeGrant-Amsberg was treated. It is unfortunately also touched by the Presence because of an experiment Dr. Prestegard performed on the patients.
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Amicable Exes
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Amicable Exes: Daniel is this to Sophie. Although they divorced, they still appreciate each other and Sophie doesn't hesitate to try and find Daniel after he disappears, and then accompanies him on his quest to find a way to escape the Presence.
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And I Must Scream
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And I Must Scream: Being trapped Elsewhere, in the domain of the Presence, is this. You find yourself in a maze of dark creepy rooms and hallways, surrounded by voices or in complete silence, with no way out of the place. No wonder Sebastian Husher decided to kill himself when he was trapped in here.
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Mirror Monster
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Mirror Monster: Some ghosts can only be seen through the mirror and some can even attack you through them. It's not a coincidence that most of the mirrors you run into are either shattered or too grimy to reflect anything. A mirror is also the only way you can see the Presence's wraiths during the Requiem minigame.
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Added Alliterative Appeal
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Added Alliterative Appeal: Every character has four stats, and all of them start with an S: Speed, Stealth, Strength and Serenity.
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Forgotten Fallen Friend
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Forgotten Fallen Friend: Some of the characters not only know each other, but were closely related: Daniel and Sophie are an outright divorced couple. Even so, none of them won't react much in-game if the other one dies to The Presence. Justified in that when a character is killed by the Presence, no one else is around to witness it, and the game takes place over a short enough span of time that no one has time to realize any of the killed characters are missing.
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Ominous Obsidian Ooze
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Ominous Obsidian Ooze: One of the signs of the Presence's coming is a black ooze beginning to cover the walls of the level. Your player character thus has to quickly find a hiding place to escape it. In other situations, it has to be burned off using intense light.
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Hollywood Torches
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Hollywood Torches: Not literally torches, but rather candles. St. Cecilia's Abbey has been abandoned and crumbling for many decades, and yet the candles are all lit and burning merrily by the time Episode 4 takes place. It's implied in notes that Sebastian Husher lit the candles, but he himself admits there are a number of them that he doesn't remember lighting up.
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True Companions
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True Companions: Daniel's ex-wife Sophie and his boss Etienne are willing to risk their lives multiple times for his sake and accompany him on several episodes.
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The Pen Is Mightier
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The Pen Is Mightier: Discussed by René if you examine a mechanical pencilnote a key item in chapter 3 while playing as him. Once in the past, he was almost stabbed by a perp brandishing one.
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Broken Bridge: Like most horror games, characters need to find keys or other tools to open up new areas for exploration. The only notable exception to this is the first episode, where the characters will refuse to go upstairs until the entire ground floor has been explored.
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Shout-Out
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The box of matches is branded "Type 90" and its art design is identical to the films for the Camera Obscura. note Specifically, it is a direct Shout-Out to the Type 90 film, the strongest type of camera film (i.e. ammunition) available until the rare Type Zero film came out starting in the second game.
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Supporting Protagonist
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Supporting Protagonist: Daniel is the real protagonist of the game, but there's a very good possibility that you will be spending time as other characters so that you won't have to restart the chapter if one of them dies.
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Torture Cellar: In Episode 4, you discover the Abbot's quarters. He was driven mad by the Presence and compelled to make a shrine to it by killing and mutilating people, cutting off their hands specifically and nailing them to his walls.
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Negative Space Wedgie
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Negative Space Wedgie: The university seen in chapter 3, along with the usual symptoms of the Presence's presence, have very odd spatial and temporal anomalies. In the Art History department you can find a newspaper from August (the game's events take place in late September), and in the newspaper archive, a meeting room seems to have been vacated minutes ago, but if you play as Professor Omar Nassiri in this section, he will remark that the last time the room was booked by the people the stuff on the table belongs to was two months before. Despite this, both places, like all others, look like they've only just been vacated in a hurry.
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Spooky Photographs: Two examples. In episode 1, you can find a polaroid of Husher's wife and children. If you turn it around, you'll see it has "DO NOT LOOK AT THIS PHOTO" written in the back. If you turn the photo around again, you'll see the photo has changed to the mugshot of a woman's desiccated and eyeless face. In episode 3, you get a set of creepy slides. When used in a projector, the images of the slides change according to the order they're displayed in. Finding the correct sequence is a puzzle.
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In episode 1, you can find a polaroid of Husher's wife and children. If you turn it around, you'll see it has "DO NOT LOOK AT THIS PHOTO" written in the back. If you turn the photo around again, you'll see the photo has changed to the mugshot of a woman's desiccated and eyeless face.
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We Cannot Go On Without You
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We Cannot Go On Without You: If Daniel, the protagonist, dies, the whole episode restarts. Any of the other characters can die and a different character, including Daniel, can take over in their stead.
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Anti-Frustration Features: In the Silence survival event, when you have to control the character's breathing to go unnoticed by a prowling Revenant; mess up too many times, and it'll jump closer until it finds you and you die. In the very first instance of this event, the Revenant doesn't kill you, so you're free to make mistakes while training.
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Inspired by…
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Inspired by…: Protocol Games themselves admit that each episode is inspired by a different survival horror classic. Thus, episode 1 traces its roots to Alone in the Dark, episode 2 to Silent Hill, episode 3 to ObsCure, and episode 4 to Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
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Evil Tainted the Place
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Evil Tainted the Place: Anywhere that the Presence's song has played will remain haunted by its manifestations, no matter how many years have passed, and even people that have never heard the song can be attacked and killed by it for so much as being around these locations.
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Closed Circle
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Closed Circle: Averted. Aside from Daniel, there isn't anything stopping the characters from just leaving when things get too creepy except for the needs of the plot. This is lampshaded when you investigate an emergency exit in Episode 3.
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Press X to Not Die
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Press X to Not Die: The game has its share of quick-time events that require you to perform certain inputs to keep your character alive, ranging from Button Mashing to precisely timed inputs. One of the first instances you're faced with involves slamming a door shut while The Presence tries to force its way into the room.
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Dark Is Evil
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Dark Is Evil: The Presence stays away from any concentrated light and can be driven away by emergency lights, spotlights or flares. Shining a light from a strong lantern at the wraiths is the only way to defeat the Requiem.
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Dramatic Gun Cock: Should René die and you continue the game without him, the cocking of a gun offscreen when you enter a room is a sign for you to turn back around and leave. IMMEDIATELY.
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Jerkass
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Jerkass: Josef Michael Merino, one of the professors in Husher's university, is a certified jackass. The first puzzle of episode 3 only happens because of him hiding the janitor's access card and making an unnecessarily cryptic riddle out of its location, for no reason other than being a prick. From the player characters' dialogues when examining Merino's things, a caricature you can find and a big "FUCK YOU MERINO" graffiti'd on one of the walls, he's not very well-liked. Grace in particular despises him.
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RPG Elements
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RPG Elements: Every character has Speed, Stealth, Strength and Serenity stats, which vary somewhat between them to keep things interesting. This is alongside them often using different light sources (they can have either a flashlight, a candle or a lighter) and possessing unique abilities, like Etienne's notes, Alexander's flask or Sophie's scented candles.
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Dwindling Party: A game mechanic. Your characters suffer from perma-death and won't be available by the next episode.
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Blob Monster
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Blob Monster: The Presence starts off as a largely formless black mass, changing later to a four-armed humanoid figure with a base made of writhing limbs.
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Creepy Cathedral
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Creepy Cathedral: St. Cecilia's Abbey in Episode 4. It is haunted by the Presence since 1913 when a concert featuring the cursed music took place. You visit its ruins decades later, witnessing several monsters lurking within its walls as well as discovering the story of the monks within who were killed or driven mad by the Presence.
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Infinite Flashlight: The game outright instructs the player that they're free to use their character's light source as they see fit, since it'll never run out. Be it an electric flashlight, a short candle or a Zippo lighter, all of them last indefinitely.
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Right Man in the Wrong Place
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Right Man in the Wrong Place: Most of the player characters have ties to the events of the main plot (i.e. Daniel's ex-wife, his boss, a servant at the mansion, the daughter of one of the original victims, academic colleagues of Husher, etc.), but some are completely random bystanders who just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. In Episode 1, for example, Alina Ramos is just a security system technician who shows up to service the security alarm at the Husher mansion, and René Artigas in Episode 2 is a beat cop who has no reason to suspect anything supernatural is going on in the neighborhood. If she survives Episode 1, Alina will straight up go back to her day job instead of trying to delve further into the mystery.
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The Assimilator
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The Assimilator: Those taken by the Presence seem to become part of it, which it then uses to hunt down more victims. Towards the end of the game the Presence starts manifesting as a tidal wave of hundreds of clawing and grasping bodies.
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Distressed Dude
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Distressed Dude: Daniel spends the entirety of the first episode trapped in the house and the four characters have to rescue him.
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Weakened by the Light
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Weakened by the Light: Any physical manifestation of the Presence is dissolved by light, and this is a core part of a number of puzzles. Downplayed in that the light has to be bright enough for that, such as a spotlight or ceiling lamp — candlelight or a regular flashlight won't cut it.
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