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This happened early on, when I was in the Back Hall area. I was actually in the room where the animals had been decapitated, back in the small study. When I stepped in there, I noticed Alexander's portrait to my right. It just FELT like it had some sort of energy, as though if I looked into his eyes for too long, I would see something horrible.
So I went to the desk and opened the cupboard where the skulls were. That didn't scare me as much as it scared Daniel... but when I turned around to leave the room, I spotted Alexander's portrait. I felt my hair LITERALLY stand as my heart skipped like 3 beats - in place of his eyes and mouth were pitch black drooping holes! I was staring at it when all of the sudden I felt the urge to RUN as far away from it as I can. I laterally ran back to the Back Hall and stayed there for 5 minutes because of this.

Err... Kein?

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... Nevermind!

Yeah, the portrait seems to have a really disturbing effect. I love this idea, as it is not really a shock-scare, just an unnerving scare, really well-done I'd say, really rare.

That never happened to me... or perhaps I was too busy looking for tinderboxes to notice?

Yeah, that must've been scary, too bad I missed it!

I found out about the effect only later when I found both paintings in the super secret folder. It's cool.

The trick reminded me somewhat of an Eternal Darkness moment: if you leave the game on while doing something else, after a short while the screen changes to a pic of the antagonist watching you through the TV screen, right up-close!

In this game, my scariest moments are the zombie chases - I'm actually pretty comfy with the lack of light and old abandoned buildings with weird stuff inside.

(10-07-2010, 10:20 PM)Hionimi Wrote: [ -> ]Err... Kein?

What?
I loled back then

I had actually read about this, but only after I'd gone pass that bit.
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