Monthly Archives: August 2003

Halloween

Platforms: Atari 2600 Release Date: 1983-01-01 Regions: USA Chris’s Rating: ★☆☆☆ Interesting only for its historical significance as an extremely early horror game. Based on the movie of the same name, Halloween is a very early survival horror game. Players must run through a large (and apparently unfurnished) house rescuing children from the evil knife-wielding […]

Chaos Break

Also known as: Chaos Break: Episode from CHAOS HEAT Platforms: PSX Release Date: 2000-01-27 Regions: Japan Europe Based on Taito’s “Chaos Heat” arcade game.

Koukai Sarena Katta Shuki: The Note

Also known as: The Note Platforms: PSX Release Date: 1997-01-17 Regions: Japan Europe Another ultra-obscure Japanese horror game that never made it to America. Gameplay is first person, but the game apparently revolves around real-time lighting effects. The player can open blinds, draw curtains, and light candles to illuminate rooms, and lit rooms apparently keep […]

Kuon

Platforms: PS2 Release Date: 2004-03-31 Regions: USA Japan Chris’s Rating: ★☆☆☆ Historical Japanese trappings can’t save this short-and-painful knockoff. Official Japanese site: http://www.ku-o-n.net/top/ Official English site: http://kuon.agetec.com/ There’s one thing I can say for certain about Kuon: it has style. The graphics are nice, the game has chosen a non-traditional setting (Heian-era Japan), and the […]

Echo Night: Beyond

Also known as: Nebula – Echo Night Platforms: PS2 Release Date: 2004-01-22 Regions: USA Japan Chris’s Rating: ★★★☆ A space-horror adventure game that succeeds in creating an extremely convincing–not to mention creepy–environment, Echo Night: Beyond’s only major flaw is that it is really slow. Echo Night: Beyond is the third Echo Night game in the […]

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

Platforms: Xbox Release Date: 2005-10-24 Regions: USA Europe Chris’s Rating: ★☆☆☆ Innovative on many levels, but somewhere along the way they forgot to also make it fun. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is a first person Lovecraftian horror game set in the 1920s. It includes a range of interesting features including insanity […]

Kyoufu Shimbun Heiseiban Kaiki! Shinrei File

Platforms: PS2 Release Date: 2003-08-07 Regions: Japan Translated by IGN as “Kyoufu Shimbun (Heisei Version): Mystery! Spirit File.” This game sounds like a blend of Kamaitachi No Yoru and Fatal Frame. The game is based on a manga series about a mysterious newspaper that reports on deaths and calamities that will occur in the future. […]

Koudelka

Platforms: PSX Release Date: 1999-10-30 Regions: USA Japan Europe A sort of survival horror RPG.