Absolutely fascinating stuff
From the off, it's hard not to root for Thomasina Bateman. In an age of steam trains and parasols, she has come to a small village in the north of England to dig up an ancient burial site, regardless of all the obstacles the local patriarchy - and the soggy English weather - can place in her way.
The animation is lovely, switching between elegant, beautifully animated sprites as you move around the world, and jarring, rather terrifying close-ups as you watch cut-scenes. In harmony with this, secondary characters walk a fine line between appearing human and inhabiting all the horror fiction and small town stereotypes you might desire.
The Essex Serpent's an interesting touchpoint. Sarah Perry's novel flirts with horror in the service of something deeper, stranger, and ultimately sweeter. At first - and 'at first' counts all the way up until the credits rolled and a few hours beyond - I was tempted to say that Hob's Barrow flirts with flirting with horror, before settling more firmly into safe genre territory.
I plucked away at threads like this for four hours that day, until everything clicked. I suddenly felt like I understood something much deeper about what the game was trying to say, and how it used horror elements rather than gave way to them. What a brilliant thing this is - a puzzle in itself, every bit as much as something like Link's Awakening - but a narrative, thematic puzzle rather than a spatial puzzle in which the map itself is a giant brainteaser.
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