Each week Marsh Davies lets fly at the blank canvas of Early Access and either returns with a masterpiece or ends up rocking back and forth in a corner eating Unity Asset Store crayons. This week he s played Layers of Fear, a linear boo-scare walk-em-up set in the reassembling spooOOooky house of a maaAAaad painter.
I m not sure a household needs more than one reproduction of The Abduction of Ganymede. It s a fine work, sure, but I don t want to be staring at a pissing toddler s dangling bum while I m having dinner, let alone every time I turn a corner in my home. But then, I m not really sure of a lot of the other decorative choices that my character appears to have made here – the cupboard of black phlegm, the infinite library, the hell mirror, the Erik Satie levitation cellar, the room of bad chairs. Not even Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen would go so far as to daub ABANDON HOPE WHILE YOU STILL CAN above a doorway. It doesn t even make sense, Laurence!
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