Slender The 8 Pages

Slender The 8 Pages is the original survival horror game which takes the idea of the character, a tall, shadowy figure that causes memory loss and paranoia.

You don't want to run out of battery

The game plays out in traditional first-person perspective, with the player exploring a series of creepy environments that are familiar from pretty much every other version of the legend and from other survival horror games. You can expect to find yourself in a lonely forest at night, with no company but the ever whistling wind, or venturing cautiously into abandoned farm buildings and suchlike, armed with nothing more than a torch. This torch is your only companion, but it does have a limited battery life, so you have to be careful how much you use it. You really don't want to run out of battery just when the Slender Man shows up, as this is where the terror truly begins.

Search of the manuscript

The Eight Pages is undeniably strong on atmosphere, although in a highly familiar fashion, and the initial moments of exploration, when you realise you are alone in the dark, are genuinely unnerving. Exploration is highly tense, as you tentatively head out in search of the manuscript, and which is helped no end by the minimalist but effective sound design. The blowing of the wind or the various creaking noises which accompany your progress only add to your sense of unease and when you finally meet the Slender Man, things really do get cranked up a notch.

Is there anything to actually do here?

However, the real problem here is that to get to the good bits, you have to wade through what eventually turns out to be pretty tedious stuff with little of any real substance actually occurring. As such, things get boring quite quickly and which isn't helped by the fact that there really isn't anything to actually do here. Your only task is to seek out the eight pages, making the gameplay extremely limited and ultimately rather pointless. Add to this the fact that we've seen pretty much identical gameplay from other Slender Man games and you have an experience which is long on atmosphere, but short on pretty much everything else.

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