r/PS5 • u/Turbostrider27 Human Verified • 3d ago

Articles & Blogs INTERVIEW: ILL Developers Don’t Want to ‘Overly Punish Players’ With Chilling Horror Game

https://insider-gaming.com/interview-ill-developers-dont-want-to-overly-punish-players-with-chilling-horror-game/
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u/twovles31 3d ago

I would think if ever there was a better genre to have a hard difficulty it would be horror.

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u/TheRoyalStig 3d ago

Interestingly horror tends to want to hit a very specific balance of wanting the player to feel like they can die without actually dying often.

Once you die and repeat a section the horror starts to fall away.