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it's Halloween and for some reason I still have yet to do one of the most important top five lists any gamer should have and that's my top 5 horror games and I want to start off with a game that I think anyone who's played will definitely agree it is one of the best horror games ever made and yet it's somehow never got the same amount of exposure has other horror games of its time and that's Fatal Frame 2 crimson butterfly now what sets Fatal Frame apart from so many other horror games is its focus on the immaterial a lot of other horror games tend to focus on monsters demons undead things that are physical while final frame puts you up against spirits and ghosts things that can literally appear anywhere at any time and this is greatly accented by the games use of camera angles music sound effects and the Japanese mythos that weaves the entire story what makes the game even scarier though is its form of combat you can't fight these things head-on but instead need to use a special camera the thing is in order to the best damage you can you need to be right up close and time it for right before and amee's attack you meaning you're always putting yourself in the center of danger if you want to get the best scores possible admittedly most of the games in this list I do like more than fatal frame but I do think fatal frame is by far one of the most unique games in genre and definitely one that everyone should experience now like I said when it came out there were a couple other franchises that ended up stealing a lot of spotlight from fatal frame and it was for good reason and one of those is the Silent Hill franchise and my personal favorite being Silent Hill 3 now it seems to me like the majority people when they talk about their favorite in Silent Hill game they always bring up Silent Hill 2 which is an excellent game as well but personally I think there's a lot of things that three did better it's not just a matter of mechanics to begin with the protagonist Heather is by far the best protagonist out of any of the characters in the original trilogy and there's just so many different little pieces of attention to detail in this game rooms that serve no purpose for advancing the story other than to mess with your head all kinds different symbolism and imagery that just sucks you in the game has this constant sense of claustrophobia that I think is missing some the other games because a lot of them have you wandering throughout the town of Silent Hill and entering other areas the vast majority of Sandhill 3 is spent indoors or underground making you feel like you never really have a chance to escape all the horror that surrounds it also has a sense of connectedness with the rest of the series that isn't really present in any of the other games now admittedly this franchise definitely has some of the worst combat but when it comes to ambience and story writing it's really tough one to beat and give the opportunity you should definitely play through the whole trilogy if you can with three serving as a strong final note next up is the first entry in the main competitor Silent Hill one of the biggest horror games of its time Resident Evil now honestly I don't think the original Resident Evil actually aged all that well it was an awkward time for graphics and had terrible voice acting it had a lot of problems but thankfully it did get remade on the Gamecube and got remade again in HD on PC and modern consoles and it is excellent this is the game that set the standard of resource management in horror games you could never carry everything you wanted and you always had to decide what was best to bring with you what items might solve nearby puzzles how much ammunition to bring what kind of guns you should carry and of course how many healing herbs are you bringing if any well I do think some of the other games on this list did a better job of instilling horror through their storytelling or environments resin evil had it locked down for mechanics later games in the series ditched these aspects and exchanged for making a more action focused game which are so good in their own right but they don't capture the same feeling and magic that was present in the first four games of the series now while the later action focused Resident Evil games failed to deliver on the horror that the original games had there was another newer franchise that had similar mechanics that ended up making the fear all the more alive and breathing and that's Dead's deadspace proves that you can still have a game focused on action and having all kinds of weapons and options for dealing with enemies and still be scared shitless when they show up the original game knew how to build up tension before throwing waves of enemy monsters at you sometimes making you feel safe for just a moment before being swarmed by some of the most well designed monsters because they have this great semblance of being right between some kind of horrific disgusting creature but still showing enough human aspects to make it truly terrifying not to mention one of my most favorite design decisions about the entire series is the UI where everything keeps you all in the action you're not going through different menus you're not having to pause the game constantly to look at your inventory or a map instead everything's right there present on the screen you can see your health on your back your ammo on your weapons and if you do pull up in the menu it's just an overlay where enemies and things are still happening in the background never really giving you a chance to escape the tension well I do think the franchise overall lost steam pretty quickly it doesn't take away from the fact that the first and original game is amazing and should be played by any fan of horror or sci-fi games now last on the list is the relatively most recent game out of the ones I picked and arguably it's the game responsible for reinventing the horror game genre and that's my age while it wasn't the first game to do it Anisha is the game responsible for popularizing the idea of a powerless hero against unstoppable evil while most games give you some kind of option like using guns melee weapons having a guardian or even a magical camera and Nisha just gives you one option run the game relied less on throwing enemies at you left and right but instead terrorized you with a single powerful enemy that you could do nothing against while also dealing with a lot of weird freaky shit happening left and right it also made excellent use of resource management by making you rely on any source of light you could find otherwise you'll just go insane in the darkness and make the game all the harder for yourself since it's released we've seen a huge influx of more horror games focusing on powerless protagonists but none of them quite live up to what I think amnesia achieved now while these are my favorite horror games to have come out there is one honorable mention I want to make because it's not exactly a game but it's a very unique experience and one that sadly a lot of people can't experience anymore because it's been removed from downloadable stores and that is P team released originally as just a teaser for the now canceled silent hill's PT was a game that wasn't even a demo where we were going to experience in silent hill's but was instead its own isolated experience that was short but extraordinarily sweet what I think this game did best is that it realized the popularity of jump scares but instead of capitalizing on that fact by throwing the menu left and right instead it just gives you the promise of jump scares only really giving you one or two and constantly keeping you on edge waiting for the next one while having almost no mechanics outside of simply walking and looking and taking place entirely in one endless hallway PT proves that you can create an incredible horror experience with ambience alone that is unique to interactive media sadly though if you didn't download this playable teaser back when it was available on the PlayStation Store it is now gone if you can't track down a friend that does have it you're gonna have to arrest with just watching other people play it online which just doesn't quite capture the same experience as playing it firsthand so those were my personal favorite horror games ever to be released I know there are a whole lot more amazing titles out there that I didn't talk about that just didn't quite make the cut for me personally so let me know down below in the comments what your favorite horror games are as always if you enjoyed this video hit that thumbs up button to let me know as well as subscribe so you don't miss out on any future content until next time guys I'm Kevin Kenson and I'll see you later