Emily Wants to Play Too
I hate this game.
But I hate it for all of the right reasons.
Emily Wants To Play Too is the direct sequel to EmilyEmily Wants to Play Too
I hate this game.
But I hate it for all of the right reasons.
Emily Wants To Play Too is the direct sequel to Emily Wants to Play, this time however you’re playing as a sandwich guy instead of a pizza boy...
the game starts with you getting ready for work… this is where you’re initially introduced to the new cast of characters…
Then it’s off to an office building…
This game improves a lot on the past game as well as disappoints me a bit..
The good changes though come in the gameplay…
in the first game you dealt with 3 dolls with their own set of rules, and the goal of the game was to survive every hour figuring out the characters different rules, and this was on repeat until you could get Emily to come out to play..
The formula is sortve the same here but it’s much less survival based...
it feels more like the stealth levels of an outlast game... or like the final few in game hours of the first game...
meaning you’re forced to explore to progress the game..
It isn’t about figuring out the cast and running around rooms looking for an exploit to beat them...
for the first half of this 2 hour game you have to find access cards to unlock new areas of the building, dealing with now a cast of 6 dolls plus Emily…
and once you’ve unlocked every area which is an anxiety inducing challenge.. That’s when Emily comes out to play...
you’ll be playing the classics like hide and seek and a new games like freeze tag...
it’s a nice balance of trying something new for the first half and then for the 2nd half, it’s basically gives you the first game again with different solutions and characters in a new area
Where this game disappoints me though is the lack of exploration incentive..
This new map is just not enjoyable to explore or full of mystery like the house in the first game...
finding the creep drawings and the recordings in the dark, searching for secret areas all while trying to survive and figure out what was going on is what made the first game for me..
And all of this is stripped down to practically nothing in the sequel...
everything there is to find will give a little back story for the new characters, and throwbacks to this games past..
But that’s about it...
the area ends up feeling like just a video game map instead of a mysterious puzzle...
the game does sequel bait, and I hope the narrative focus and mystery comes back...
Emily Wants to Play Too is a solid horror game...
it made me feel uneasy, the jump scares are intense
its atmosphere may not blow you away...
And the story is severely lacking
but it’s fun in a torture to your heart kind of way
I give Emily Wants to Play Too
a 7/10… Expand
