Sleepless nights because of the Slender Man
Last week, my husband was watching some YouTube reaction videos to the game Slender. To those that know what Slender is, good for you, to those that don’t, CLICK HERE, HERE and HERE learn more about it. Also the birthplace of Slender Man is here at Something Awful. So after watching the reaction videos he got into watching the MarbleHornets videos which is the series based off SlenderMan, and well I couldn’t sleep well last week because of watching those videos with my husband (and some by myself) so well I was freaked out. At one more my husband had goosebumps watching the videos.
I know the whole Slender Man is all fiction that came out of someone’s imaginative mind but well the though of “what ifs” tends to linger after watching things like that. Then it ends up being funny because of one video, and that is the video where someone unlocks “20 Dollar” mode in Slender. Because of that video I’ve been spontaneously singing “Gimme 20 dollars” last week as well.
After watching some reaction video to gameplays of Slender I decided I’m going to try. My husband got all excited and when he saw that I downloaded the game and was getting ready to play it he turned off all the lights and the tv because he wanted me to have the “experience.” Regardless the first time playing it I only got 2 or 3 pages and I didn’t see Slender Man but I did get static across the screen and I made the character run like hell away from Slender. Then like 10 mins of playing my flashlight didn’t work, even though I was told you never run out of batteries in the game but there was no light source after a while. Also 10 mins of running around in circles only to have 2-3 pages I gave up on the first try. Slender didn’t get me but I was still freaked out.
Second gameplay through with the lights on and people in the room, this includes my daughter, went well ok. I tried to record the reaction video but the gameplay video didn’t get recorded, so I just popped in the system audio into my recorded webcam video. Here it is:
Click to viewI can’t say this is much of a review or not because I didn’t finish the game nor don’t know if I ever will. Even playing the game in the day time I still get freaked out, and it’s because of how this game was made. It’s terribly good at making sure you are looking over your shoulder. What is worse is that the first time playing this game at night about 3-4 hours later when I’m trying to sleep there was a major thunderstorm. Woke me up scared the crap out of me and I looked around in the dark at all corners of my bedroom making sure there wasn’t any suspicious shadows.
I’m starting to kick myself in the ass for even watching the videos and playing the game, but I want to know what happens in the videos and want to unlock the other modes in the game. So glutton for punishment it is.
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