![]() This certainly is a game of two worlds: one very beautiful and one very empty, unfortunately leaving us with a game that is all skin and no spirit. It took me 12 hours over three nights to play, and towards the finale I was astounded by how a game so short could feel so long. Even while taking notes, the story became difficult to follow. Instead, it fumbles sensitive topics, plot points evaporate into thin air, and characters who are studied closely are left behind and never mentioned again. The Medium is hugely ambitious and could have been a site for incredible, innovative storytelling. The mishandling of such huge subjects defeats the power of the work – by the time we are examining the ninth or 10th ragged toy doll to find a clue, the tension has long dissipated. Genuinely intriguing presentation is mostly ruined. The Medium attempts to corral postwar horror, child abuse, mass violence, family and monstrosity without ever truly interrogating any of them. The Medium is arguably the horror movie of the year, one that should be seen on the biggest screen possible. Intergenerational trauma as a theme within horror storytelling can make room for us to explore our own fears within the bounds of fiction, but it needs the space to do so. ![]() The Medium has some fun ideas that it executes. ![]() This further splitting of the narrative is muddled and slows the pace, jarring the atmosphere. Playing The Medium, a new horror game on Xbox and PC from developer Bloober Team, is like watching The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on Netflix. Marianne solves mysteries, Thomas blows things up. Marianne explores Niwa, and Thomas the psyches of bad men. Where Marianne puzzles her way through cordoned-off areas, Thomas simply blasts them open with powerful psychic energy. Our reserved and confident protagonist disappears for these segments, and we control a male character, Thomas, who inexplicably has double her physical prowess. The Medium is a terrifying but compelling exploration of duality that uses the. This narrative displacement may have been intended to be disorienting, but was instead frustrating. The Medium is one of the best third-person horror games Ive ever played. ![]() For example, it reaches to empathise with the paedophile artist who abuses one of the characters, voyaging into the psyche of the abuser during the first of a handful of jarring perspective changes. Not unlike Bloober Team’s earlier Layers of Fear, the story is prone to tone-deaf tropes. ![]()
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