Worry The Highlight begins like many good horror tales. A few friends–nerdy goody-goody Vivian and her goth pal Amy–sneak into college after-hours to carry out a séance. The college has a creepy historical past, in spite of everything, because of a hearth a couple of years earlier that claimed the lives of a number of college students. It is a bit morbid and disrespectful to attempt to contact the spirits of a bunch of youngsters within the college library, however hey, youngsters are morbid and disrespectful.
I performed a brief demo of Worry The Highlight at Summer season Recreation Fest 2024’s Play Days occasion, and at first, that was the factor that caught with me most–at least, at first. Sneaking by means of the halls of the college and listening to conversations between protagonist Vivian and Amy, the entire thing felt fairly pure and real looking. Goth child befriends nerd and the pair get into bother together–I am positive lots of people have that actual backstory of their lives someplace.
Worry The Highlight matches a Nineties teen horror story with a Nineties survival-horror aesthetic. The sport calls up the look of early 3D video games on the unique PlayStation, most notably Silent Hill. The blocky, low-resolution visuals work effectively with the darkish highschool setting, giving the entire recreation a wierd unreality that is good for a ghost story.
