A Look Back At Bloober Team’s Blair Witch

<p>I absolutely adore horror games&comma; <em>Resident Evil<&sol;em> on the original PlayStation is what brought me back into gaming when I bypassed the N64&period; Horror has just been a staple in my life from a young age&comma; my father was a huge horror movie fan and he would have <em>Friday the 13th<&sol;em> and <em>Halloween<&sol;em> on quite a lot when I was young and when I was all grown up&period; <&sol;p> &NewLine;<p>Life happens&comma; and I got super behind on some of the horror movies I&&num;8217&semi;ve wanted to watch for years&period; Since it is October I have been catching up on a lot of those horror movies&comma; recently I watched <em>Evil Dead<&sol;em> &lpar;2013&rpar;&comma; <em>Halloween<&sol;em> &lpar;2018&rpar; and <em>Blair Witch<&sol;em> &lpar;2016&rpar;&period; All of which I regret not watching sooner&period; <em>Blair Witch<&sol;em> however stuck with me the most&comma; seeing as I had played Bloober Team&&num;8217&semi;s game to review for this<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;review-blair-witch&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer"> site<&sol;a>&period; <&sol;p> &NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;164767" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-164767" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-164767" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;10&sol;26001610&sol;how-many-chapters-are-there-in-the-blair-witch-game&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"360" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-164767" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Blair Witch<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; Bloober Team&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure> &NewLine;<p>Going into the review I had only seen <em>The Blair Witch Project<&sol;em> and <em>Blair Witch 2&colon; Book of Shadows<&sol;em>&period; While these movies allowed me to understand some of the lore of the universe&comma; <em>Blair Witch<&sol;em> &lpar;2016&rpar; really let me understand what was going on in the game&comma; over a year playing it&period; From now on there will be spoilers from this point on&comma; so if you&&num;8217&semi;ve not seen the movie or played the game please come back when you&&num;8217&semi;ve done both&excl;<&sol;p> &NewLine;<p>Let us first talk about the direct sequel to <em>The Blair Witch Project<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Blair Witch<&sol;em>&period; First off&comma; I really enjoyed their take on this movie and saw where Bloober Team took inspiration from&period; In the movie you are introduced to the time travel element and the bidder of the Blair Witch&period; What I mean from that is that there needs to be a human to help her&comma; kind of like Dracula&&num;8217&semi;s Renfield&period; Somehow that person is unaffected by gazing upon her and gets the unsuspecting victims to come to the house&period; <&sol;p> &NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;164772" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-164772" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-164772" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;10&sol;26004415&sol;blair-witch-2016-ending-monster-review-600x300-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"320" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-164772" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Blair Witch<&sol;em> &lpar;2016&rpar; &&num;8211&semi; Lionsgate&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure> &NewLine;<p>In the game you play as Ellis Lynch&comma; a retired police officer who has entered the Black Hills Forest to search for a missing child&comma; Peter Shannon&period; Keep in mind this game takes place a mere two years after the events in <em>The Blair Witch Project<&sol;em>&period; You enter the forest with your dog and a camera and then things begin to get freaky&period; <&sol;p> &NewLine;<p>We all know that Bloober Team makes a great first person psychological horror game&period; Just look at <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;layers-of-fear-review-not-an-onion&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer"><em>Layers of Fear<&sol;em><&sol;a> franchise and their upcoming <em>Medium<&sol;em>&period; This is their niche and they are beginning to perfect it&comma; their work on <em>Blair Witch<&sol;em> proves it&period; I really wish that I had seen the 2016 movie before playing the game&period; I would have understood the time travel more&comma; I honestly thought it was a story beat the developers tossed into the game to make it more interesting&comma; I was wrong&period; <&sol;p> &NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;164774" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-164774" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-164774" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;10&sol;26005608&sol;blair-witch-game-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"360" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-164774" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Blair Witch<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; Bloober Team&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure> &NewLine;<p>As you wander the woods for what seems like a lifetime for Lynch you come across a man named Carver&period; This man begins too taunt you and make your little camping trip more and more intense&period; Depending on how you play the game you can get different endings&comma; my playthrough ended up in Lynch becoming Carver in the past and eventually doing all the things that he experienced&period; I know&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s hard to wrap your head around due to time travel&comma; but bear with me&period; <&sol;p> &NewLine;<p>I&&num;8217&semi;m glad that I finally watched the movie that really inspired game&comma; mad at myself for not doing so before my first playthrough&period; Now that I know where they pulled from I plan on replaying the game to try to get a different ending and to enjoy the world that the Blair Witch inhabits&comma; without actually becoming a victim&period; Plus you get to pet the dog&comma; and you can&&num;8217&semi;t go wrong with that&excl; <&sol;p> &NewLine;