I really enjoy playing video games, but to be 100% honest, this probably would not have ever been a game that I would have chosen to play on my own besides the fact that it is such a classic. I don’t mind the FPS aspect, it’s the monsters (if I can even call them that? What are they?) chasing after me and hearing the “oink oink” noises telling me there’s something nearby trying to hurt me, yet having no idea where it is. I’m the type of person who refuses to watch horror movies, so getting through the spookiness of the game was a bit challenging for me. Embarrassingly, I tried to view it as a sort of “conquering my fear.”
E1:M6 was by far the worst.
After navigating through a crazy, maze-like map, I hit what I thought was going to be an innocent button and immediately like 20 monsters appeared behind me, I sprayed my machine gun everywhere in a panic, and I died, without a recent save to fall back on. Even after later coming to this room and defeating these monsters after a few more tries, I could not for the life of me find the exit. Later I found out it was in that very same room.
In my search for the exit, I was able to uncover 50% of the secrets. I really appreciated the health boost from the blue guy.
Overall, I found myself getting braver and braver to turn corners and explore as I continued to play the game. I found my self saying “even if something does pop out from behind there, I can kill it.”