Rainy Woods is described on the GameVideos website as "Silent Hill meets Twin Peaks" and aside from their desperately needing to ground the analogy with a video game reference lest it be lost on an audience completely oblivious to any other entertainment medium, I agree -- we don't even get fifteen seconds into the trailer before our eyes are assaulted by eerily symmetrical midgets in blood-red mood lighting. Aside from scribbling David Lynch's name on their Trapper Keepers then encircling it in crude pencil hearts with ironically traditional arrows through them, developer Marvelous Interactive couldn't possibly be more in love with the creepy auteur. Whether that translates into a quality video game, a confusing, yet revered video game, or a horrible video game is anyone's guess, but I'm really pulling for a Chris Isaak cameo.
Oh Gamevideos, just because it's a game about an FBI agent coming to some town with weird people doesn't mean you can just compare it to Twin Peaks. This looks more like some average Hollywood horror remix of the Shining meets The Shadow Over Innsmouth than David "Film, at least for me, is dead" Lynch :(
IM glade you finally found this gem of TGS.. when i saw it and the creepy people around the Kiosk i thought it was a vision on hell..
and the Wizard of Oz Midgets are totally creepy! and for the people saying it looks bad, this is not what its about, its JapHorror game, its about atmosphere not looks or graphics.
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4:05 AM on 09.23.2007
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Alan wake had the Lynch vibe from little we've got to see of it. Although, they did list Twin Peaks as an influence.
and whats with those midgets bobing up and down in their chairs?
Parkinson's?
I dunno Prof. Pew, it looks a great deal like Twin Peaks to me. That one cop even looked like Harry Truman.
I got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and resume whittling.
and the Wizard of Oz Midgets are totally creepy! and for the people saying it looks bad, this is not what its about, its JapHorror game, its about atmosphere not looks or graphics.
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