{"id":3589,"date":"2020-11-01T20:50:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T20:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2020-11-01T20:50:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T20:50:21","slug":"p-t-the-most-frightening-gaming-experience-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/3589","title":{"rendered":"P.T. &#8211; The Most Frightening Gaming Experience Ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pt-1024x640-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pt-1024x640-1-300x188.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pt-1024x640-1-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pt-1024x640-1-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pt-1024x640-1.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It was 2014 and the Playstation 4 was still quite new.  Out of the blue, this strange demo drops which doesn&#8217;t <i>really<\/i> have much gameplay.  It was mysterious and curious and I&#8217;ll never forget the first time I saw <i>her<\/i>.  Nowadays, a quick search will reveal all its secrets, but then, no one knew anything: why this happened, why that didn&#8217;t happen, etc.  But it was such a thrill going through its nonsensical hallways, marveling at its pristine sound design and lighting effects.  <\/p>\n<p>My nine-year-old son has been itching to play\/watch something scary.  He&#8217;s too na\u00efve to realize he&#8217;s absolutely not ready.  So, I decided tonight to boot up the good ol&#8217; <b>P.T.<\/b> and walk down some hallways.  <\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t 30 seconds later when he asked me to turn it off.  Nothing happened: just one right-hand turn and a dirty bathroom.  But it reinforced my original idea that this <b>Playable Teaser<\/b> was just about as frightening as I remember it being the first time through.<\/p>\n<p>Now to see if my 12-year-old daughter is up for the challenge!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 2014 and the Playstation 4 was still quite new. Out of the blue, this strange demo drops which doesn&#8217;t really have much gameplay. It was mysterious and curious and I&#8217;ll never forget the first time I saw her. Nowadays, a quick search will reveal all its secrets, but then, no one knew anything: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3591,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions\/3591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}