The style is just unsettling enough to make you uneasy, but it’s never overwhelming. Once you hop over to the Spirit World, this sepia-tinged dimension looks nothing like the traditional depictions of Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory, but is instead an eerie realm inspired by the abstract and surrealist works of Zdzisław Beksiński. The Niwa Hotel and its surrounding area look like your typical rundown horror setting, with impressive ray tracing to bring the environments to life. As far as the overall world design goes, Bloober Team absolutely delivers. The story plays out in two worlds at once for most of the game, so ensuring that the plot functions in spite of that novel core concept is no easy feat. The Medium tells an ambitious story despite a small scale.
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Still, it’s worth giving a shot if you like horror and want to see what your next-gen console can do - especially because it’s free with a Game Pass subscription. However, The Medium falls short of greatness due to an overzealous script.
In many ways, The Medium is an excellent next-gen showcase and an atmospheric horror game on par with Silent Hill. Thanks to the power of next-gen consoles, The Medium’s “Dual Reality” system lets players control Marianne in both worlds at once to explore and solve puzzles. What unfolds is a horrific adventure involving both realms that evokes Silent Hill a great deal. She ventures to the mysterious and dilapidated Niwa Hotel to learn more about her powers, mysterious past, and a dream where she sees a young girl die. But her investigative journey has her exploring the Spirit World and Material World in equal measure, sometimes at the same time. The Mediumis centered around the titular medium Marianne, who has the power to communicate with people in the Spirit World - and to explore it at will. It’s also a true next-gen console exclusive.
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The Medium from Layers of Fear developer Bloober Team is the first truly big-budget Xbox Series X exclusive. It’s no secret that Microsoft’s new consoles launched without many compelling exclusives outside of fantastic indie games like Call of the Sea. The Xbox Series X’s biggest exclusive yet, The Medium, doesn’t quite live up to the hype this interdimensional horror game garnered heading up to its January 28 release.
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