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Hideous corpus

ody horror is discomfiting in any medium, but it’s arguably at its most effective in videogames. This is, after all, a medium where these grisly violations and unnatural mutations occur to someone we’re controlling – or even inhabiting. Think of the squirm-inducing moment when fully lives up, which takes the idea to almost farcical extremes given how frequently terrible things occur to Ethan Winters’ poor hands.

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