There's often jokes about how a game is bad if you can't pet the dog/animals, so a game whose ending is determined by how well you treated your dogo? I have no words for how fucking awesome that is

When Daniella serves you the soup, you notice the hair & it makes Fiona recoil. This implies that the soup, and the meat Debitalas was chopping at beginning of game, were the dead bodies of Fiona's parents.

I played this when I was in my early teens and couldn't get through it. As a girl it really resonates with how scary the world can be for us, and it stuck with me for a long time.

God this game is fantastic. This is my actual worst nightmare, being chased with no way to defend myself. The misogyny from Daniella, the objectification from Debilitas, and the sexualization from Lorenzo and Riccardo, it makes the horror so much more than just scary, it's real.

I immediately turned it off upon encountering Debilitas. I entered panic mode before Fiona did. There was something about that doll-obssessed dimwitted giant that chilled me to the bones, and I couldn't bear to play further. Now I know why, thanks man!

I haven't played Haunting Ground, but I am absolutely obsessed with it. The aesthetic, the story, the characters... everything is so carefuly crafted in a truly horryfing nightmare. You have very eloquently expressed a lot of my thoughts about it.

"A psycho-sexual horror masterpiece" I don't think I've ever heard such words put together before but I like it.

Haunting Ground and Silent Hill 3 are both games that tread similar thematic ground and were both similarly underappreciated upon their release. And they are both undergoing a bit for a renaissance right now, in large part because of how far ahead of their time they were. To put it bluntly, game's criticism is only just now reaching a point where it is able to take stories about women, and more pointedly stories about being women, seriously.

I know it was intended to be frightening, but Ricardo shouting "Let Me Into Your Womb" has got to be one of the most unintentionally funny lines in gaming.

I loved this game. The deaths I endured had horrifying sounds. She was a weak girl, she only had one ally against hard bad guys no real weapons, kind of like Fatal Frame little women with a camera against freaky ghosts, and that's what made them my favorite survival horrors!

Wow. I really dug your gender-informed analysis of the game. Its ironic that critics all dismissed it as sexually-gratuitous trash when there are so many worse offenders that get a pass

Imagine seeing a character in a horror game naked,injured,scared,at their absolute weakest, and focusing on the nudity in a sexual context rather than the obviously intended context;i.e. powerlessness as a core concept of horror,especially survival horror. Like I understand violence and nudity are in a special category wrt women and that is definitely something that shouldn't be overlooked but it's pretty obvious what the point of that is here. Also interesting that the implication is that she's next to be butchered but as western culture often does the violence takes a back seat to sex because the culture is far more approving of violence than sex. Like she's been stripped naked and she's due to be cut into pieces and people are like HOLD ON SHE NEKKID??!?