Round 88 of the Articles Of Excellence ends with Aevers swooping
in with a review of Obscure. She describes her experience with
it as one that's all too familiar, but thankfully has the spooky
atmosphere to back it up for a while.  Obscure Score: 7/10
Genre: Survival Horror  Where it really shines is in how the
first half of the game really sucks you in as you explore the
dark, twisted hallways of the empty school, hoping that you can
gather some supplies before you get jumped by monsters.  quote
Aevers Released at the peak of survival horror's quality (or at
least the Alone In The Dark/Resident Evil style one, anyway),
Obscure takes the tried and true Resident Evil formula, adds a
few things and sets it all in a high school. It'd be easy to
dismiss them as cheap gimmicks implemented to vainly mask the
fact that it's a generic survival horror game, and to be fair, I
feel like Obscure would lose its edge without these things.
Without its approach to co-op and its characters, it would play
out like a rather gen