H.P. Lovecraft – a man who knew a thing or two about horror – famously believed that “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”. Right now so much of Resident Evil 7 lies in the shadows.
The Beginning Hour demo – released during E3 – gave us a taster of the franchise’s new tone and direction but importantly it wasn’t lifted from the final game. The Lantern demo, however, is in Resident Evil 7 but it’s another found footage tape, depicting the horrific final moments of a woman.
It’s a short, self-contained episode, which begins with you being pursued by Marguerite Baker, an elderly woman carrying a lantern. It’s unclear who you are – though you cast a woman’s silhouette – and why you’ve been brought to the Baker estate beyond Marguerite ranting. There’s only one direction in which to flee – across a bridge lined with defaced wooden babies (of course!) and in what is presumably the Baker plantation house, which is slowly being swallowed by the murky Louisiana swamp it sits upon.
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