10 Video Games That Made You Face Your Own Worst Nightmares
9. Resident Evil 7
Now, of course there was going to be a Resident Evil title
on this list, but it might not be the one you expected. Sure, it was a good
game, but it was more of a collection of all the things that made the original
games so good and not something as original as it first seemed.
Why not have the first one on here, with its truly terrifying suggestion of a second-protagonist panini? What about the second where it’s not just your first day at a new job – something which is always terrifying – but your first job at a place where everyone’s dead and wandering about? Or what about the third where Capcom explored the fear of being hunted? Where they made you the prey and they set forth an amalgamation of body bits and bazookas to doggedly pursue you through Racoon City? I could have even picked the fifth one in the series where they really dissected the fear of grazing your knuckles on a large boulder, but no, I’ve opted for 7, and here’s why.
Playing Resident Evil 7 – specifically in VR – makes you remember why you’re afraid of the dark. It sends you into the blackest of shadows and, even though you know that something waits for you there, that still does nothing to dilute the horror. If anything, it makes it worse. Stephen King said that horror is the fear of something that may or may not be there, and terror is coming face to face with it.
Resident Evil 7 fills its dark with monsters, and then makes
you complicit in finding out just what they are.