Unsurprisingly, Bloober finds brilliant ways to explore these themes with their level, art, and sound design. Without spoiling anything, there are certain sections that focus on a theme, like guilt or abandonment. Read More: 30 PC Games You Need to Play in 2019īut moment to moment, the story feels oddly paced. The folks at Bloober are truly gifted at exploring the darkest corners of the human psyche and bringing those bad thoughts to life in their games, and there are plenty of moments in Blair Witch that feel incredibly humanistic despite the gruesome nature of the story. The game’s overarching story is deeply felt and draws from real nightmare scenarios that most of us can relate to in one way or another. But these characters always sound like they’re performing and annunciating and…it’s all too polished and pruned. Real people stumble over words and repeat phrases when they misspeak, pause to cough. The game’s dialogue, on the other hand, sounds very, very scripted, and it’s performed too cleanly by the actors. Their dialogue sounded and felt more like real conversations rather than scripted lines. The original movie was so scary because the people on screen felt real and were genuinely reacting to the messed up situation they were in. The dialogue isn’t necessarily poorly written, but what’s disappointing about it is that, well, this is a Blair Witch game, and that comes with certain expectations.
There are points in the story where Ellis says and does some shocking things, but his nice-guy voice just doesn’t reflect the ugliness of his actions. This doesn’t seem to be any fault of May’s, but rather an issue of miscasting.
Ellis is about as broken as a person gets, both mentally and emotionally, but you can’t really hear all of that pain, suffering, and heartache in May’s voice, which actually sounds quite soothing and pristine. Read More: Bloober Team Talks to Us About Adapting the Blair Witchįrom the jump, it’s clear that one of the game’s biggest issues is its voice acting.
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