Silver Pines is a great survival horror throwback with an unexpected Metroidvania twist, but it makes me glad the genre's moved on

It's those bloody typewriters each implicit again. Developer Wych Elm Games' Silver Pines is fantastic successful a full clump of ways, from its woozy small-town ambience to its premix of taut endurance fearfulness and exploratory Metroidvania. But from the precise archetypal infinitesimal I saw its prevention system, its please-insert-coin telephone container demands, I knew our narration was going to beryllium a fractious one.

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