Digging through your attic you found a box set of an old children's TV show, Amanda the Adventurer, starring a brave girl named Amanda and a cowardly sheep named Wooly. You don't recall any specific episodes or characters in the show. Or what happens in the show exactly. Or much about it at all come to think about it, but it still feels strangely familiar. Curiosity takes hold and you decide to watch the tapes and let HORROR nostalgia take you back to a simpler age.
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HOW IS THIS EVEN MORE TERRIFYING THAN THE FULL RELEASE MY BROTHER GOT SCARED AND HE RODE THE CALIFORNIA SCREAMIN' WHEN HE WAS 8 I'M NOT JOKING
ter potencial
Though rudimentary in comparison to its full release, "Pilot Episode" establishes the clear link to a form of nostalgia toward children's television shows and the pseudo-game their protagonists often begin through active viewing by questioning the viewer. The horror lies in breaking the pseudo-game, now an actual game, by interacting with objects and locations not desired by the protagonist (in this case, Amanda) and witnessing the results of the viewer's rebellion. Real interactivity in this manner conveys the similar disregard the aging child/teen/adult likely holds upon watching these shows, so the ease by which these developers harness an innate terror within the intersections of two distinct mediums, video and videogame, is a considerable promise for the full release which expands these elements in ways furthering the viewer's/player's breaking of the original pseudo-game.
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