Kickstarter really is a wonderful initiative, and The Last Door is an ideal example as to why.
The Last Door proves that a game doesn’t need high-resolution visuals to pull players into a truly disturbing atmosphere.
PixlBit | "I’ve kind of become the de facto horror guy around PixlBit, and that suits me just fine. For the longest time, I felt that the key to a great horror video game was graphical fidelity. Resident Evil was chilling for me when I was sixteen, but the original release doesn’t do it for me anymore. Surely, it takes bleeding edge graphics to terrify, right? Well, not necessarily. I learned that with Corpse Party, a game that chilled me to the bone on multiple occasions. That game looked like it came from the 16-bit era, and it was very effective at making bedtime a dicey proposition. So what would happen if someone made a horror game that used an art style from even earlier? Would it be scary at all? In the case of The Last Door from Spanish developer The Game Kitchen, you get a macabre and haunting horror title that gets in your head and stays there."
From the Review:
"One of the first games that caused me to constantly look over my shoulder while I was playing it was The Seventh Guest. I played this back in university; and it scared me (and my room mates, if I happened to be playing with the speakers on). I remember, with embarrassment, being startled, and jumping out of my seat – the sense of dread generated within me by the game was palpable. The Last Door, a web-based point-and-click horror-adventure game by The Game Kitchen, is a recent release that caused that fear to bubble up to the surface once again. But, like The Seventh Guest, the story was so compelling that I couldn’t stop playing – and this is only the beginning."
