While this works most of the time, acting as a sort of guide to push you forward, sometimes it won’t work at all leaving you confused and frustrated as to where to go next. Using an action wheel, you can command him to sniff out various clues and paths that need to be taken. Bullet, your four-legged companion, is the best part of this game. This stop-and-go repetition is utilized throughout the entire campaign and truly prevents you from enjoying the atmospheric horror that Bloober sets out to accomplish until the final moments of the game, which are by far the best and most in-line with the Blair Witch franchise lore. About an hour or so in, Blair Witch begins to pick up speed by introducing a semi-interesting back story and ramping up the spooks but not long after it screeches back to a slow, lackluster crawl. It pushes you forward and says “explore, find clues, save the kid” but doesn’t feature elements of a polished game that utilize subtle techniques or tricks to keep you moving forward. The opening moments of the game are incredibly slow, and not in that “slow burn horror” sort of way. While the forest is by far the largest environment Bloober has ever created, it becomes more frustrating than fun to venture through. Blair Witch takes roughly 6 hours to complete and that time is largely dependent on how much or how little time you want to spend exploring the world. As you explore the forest armed with only a flashlight, a magic camcorder, a walkie-talkie, and a cell phone, you begin to witness the effects of the witch herself in the form of visions, weird forest monsters, and haunting bumps in the night. Ellis is joined by his trusty German Shepherd, Bullet, as the pair wander through the iconic Black Hills Forest to help locate a missing child. You play as Ellis, a former cop and military vet who suffers from PTSD.
Blair Witch takes place two years after the events of the original film.
Does it live up to the Blair Witch legacy or is this another film-to-game adaptation gone wrong? Unfortunately, it leans a bit more towards the latter. Fast forward three years and the talented people over at Bloober Team (Layers of Fear, Observer, Layers of Fear 2) have presented us with a video game set in the universe established 20 years ago. It was followed by a less than impressive “sequel” a year later and then a proper sequel in 2016 that was met with mostly positive reviews. Kicked off by the cult classic film The Blair Witch Project in 1999, the series set the modern standard for the “found footage” style of filmmaking. Blair Witch is an interesting franchise that has had its fair shares of ups-and-downs.
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