Ben Lindbergh

Gotta hand it to the sound design of this game.

Oh, yeah.

Which is just fantastic.

You can just hear what is about to chomp your head off before you can see it, and that makes it so much worse.

But there's a lot of squelching that happens here, certainly.

So I was wearing headphones.

It's so much worse.

It's so much worse, right?

Yeah.

And like not just any headphones, but the like PlayStation branded surround sound headphones.

I couldn't hear anything else except that.

And yeah, that backfired for me because it's so much scarier.

Yes.

I took some precautions.

I was playing with the lights on largely whenever my wife was available to sit next to me and do something while I played.

I definitely took her up on that.

But there were enough moments of levity, which as you just alluded to, Matt, was the subject of Joshua's piece for TheRinger.com.

What a great website this week about

how, yes, this franchise is horrifying, but it's also hilarious, and that this game is a great example of that.

That did just lighten the mood often enough that I was able to play and proceed and enjoy.