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Obscure 2 kenny fight7/14/2023 As a bonus, she gives tips for puzzles and always know where the next objective is. Don’t let her terrible taste in clothing fool you, she’s one of the best as she is able to heal 20% more with medkits. Shannon Matthews is Kenny’s smart young sister. Probably the worst character in the game. She has the capacity to fire a pistol rapidly, meaning dealing more damage but also wasting more ammo. For some reason, he is Josh Hartnett’s dead ringer.Īshley Thompson is the angry cheerleader, and Kenny’s girlfriend. You might want to keep him alive just for the sake of finding stashes of ammo. Apart from smoking weed all the time, he can easily lock-pick doors and open special lockers. As a wannabe journalist, he can tell if rooms contain items to pick up, and making them glow. Josh Carter is the creepy geek, always with a camcorder at hand. Try to save him in the prologue because he makes the final boss a cakewalk. You spend most of the game looking for him. He can run faster than anyone and deals more damage in close combat. The graphics still hold up pretty well with very nice environments and good character animations.įrom left to right: Shannon, Kenny, Stanley, Ashley, and Josh. Each possesses a special power that will prove useful depending on what you need to do. The most obvious change is the presence of five playable characters. ObsCure plays like any classic Resident Evil-style game, except for some salutatory touches like the ability to lock-on enemies and a very loose control on camera angles. By finding notes here and there, the plot will unravel and even conclude itself in a rather satisfying way. The story itself is as clichéd as you expect from the prologue: monstrous plants, evil experiments, psychotic teachers and, of course, brainless teenagers. Like most of the French who grew up in the nineties, the writers only source of the American education system seems to come from Saved by the Bell & the Australian series Heartbreak High. The next day, Kenny’s friends decide to search for their lost mate by hiding in the building after class. That’s the first innovation of ObsCure: anyone can die. If the player doesn’t demonstrate enough skill in this tutorial, the prologue can end up with Kenny being killed by the evil lurking under Leafmore. Unfortunately, one night, basketball prodigy Kenny Matthews spends too much time on campus and ends up discovering the horrible truth. Set in the United States, Leafmore High is a quiet school where students mysteriously disappear from time to time. Heavily influenced by the movie The Faculty, ObsCure became a parody of teen-horror movies. First designed as Lovecraft-esque story, the project was revamped into a more marketable setting. After this small success, the two brothers were able to catch the attention of Microids to finance a video game circa 2000. “Zombies, How to Enjoy Deadly Nights” was a short lived game presenting a strange post-nuclear world where the undead and all sorts of eerie creatures roamed at night. Before tackling video games, the company, called JudaProd at the time, mostly conceived tabletop roleplaying games. The small company was created by two siblings, a long tradition in French video game industry: Denis & Francois Potentier. After a long and twisted production, the team finally gave birth in 2004 to ObsCure, the teen-horror video game. The French developers from Hydravision thought differently and tried to implement something new within the well-established genre: two player cooperative gameplay. Being alone in the dark is probably the best way to be terrified. As numerous clones as the survival-horror genre spawned, there is still a common denominator between each of them: the sense of solitude.
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