Slender: The Arrival

Slender: The Arrival is a survival horror video game developed by Blue Isle Studios as a fully realized, commercial version to Parsec Productions' Slender: The Eight Pages. It was released on Microsoft Windows and OS X on March 26, 2013. The game was released on PlayStation 4 on March 24, 2015 in North America and March 25, 2015 in Europe and Xbox One on March 25, 2015 worldwide. Like its predecessor, the game is based on the Something Awful forums' creation, the Slender Man. A remaster is set to release on Oct. 31, 2019.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The graphics looks primitive and outdated. Despite being a 2013 game, it looks like it's from 2006. The character models are also poor except Slender Man as a lot of them look unfinished.
 * 2) The game isn't all that scary. It mainly relies on using very dark environments to make it seem scary and once you figure out how Slender Man works it becomes not scary immediately.
 * 3) * On that note, the PS3 version is so dark, it makes it impossible to see without the flashlight.
 * 4) The gameplay is incredibly bland and is the same look for or interact with "X" number of objects while avoiding Slender Man.
 * 5) The story is almost nonexistent since there are no characters beyond what is in the notes, you accomplish nothing, and the game leaves a lot of unanswered questions and doesn't really make any sense. These questions include but not limited to: Who summoned Slender Man? Why is Kate now his servant? Why is Kate and Charlie a Proxy?"
 * 6) Very disjointed pacing. Calm at one moment and then chaos the next; this happens way too often.
 * 7) The original ending involved the game abruptly ending after something attacks Lauren. Fortunately, the game was updated to give a much better ending seemingly to set up a sequel which was announced after the release of the game, however, nothing has come of it since.
 * 8) It can be beaten at around two-three hours with no replayability.
 * 9) The notes you find don't do much, but try to tell you something (not all that important) about the characters, that you should avoid Slender Man, something completely trivial, or just irrelevant to the overall plot.
 * 10) The 2nd level and 9th level have you collecting pages. While this is faithful to the original, there's no reason to collect them whatsoever since they don't do anything.
 * 11) The new levels that were included in an update don't really do or tell us anything we didn't already know. The first level let's us see when Charlie was taken by Slender Man and the other is playing as private investigator looking for Charlie and seemingly dying at the end.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Okay voice acting for what there is.
 * 2) Slender Man's design looks nice and is way more detailed than the original version.
 * 3) Good atmosphere.
 * 4) Good soundtrack.
 * 5) The 9th level is a remake of the original Eight Pages, which looks nice and is faithful to the original design.

Reception
Slender: The Arrival received mixed to positive reviews, with critics praising its soundtrack, tense atmosphere and scares, but also criticizing its shorter than expected campaign length and repetitive gameplay.

Defunct Games called it the "Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows" of video games criticizing the lack of a reason to care about the characters and story, the graphics, and may the point that "the sequel isn't convincing as to why Slender should be a franchise".

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