SO i think it's probably you i see talking about it on my dash all the time and i'm like oh that sounds cool but i don't want to download it if i won't like it bc i'm cheap as hell but i'm also worried it will like legitimately scare me and make me really anxious i know that's stupid but i was just wondering if you had any thoughts about the like ~scariness level of it or really any other thoughts about it in general that could help me figure out if i want to buy it
@bisexualnarry (why can I @ sign only some people and not others? ugh)
It is indeed probably me you see on your dash all the time talking about ZR. I actively follow the tag and aggressively reblog most of what I see in it. ANYWAYS onto the rest of your question.
I personally don’t feel like it’s too scary? I’m not a fan/get fairly easily scared by of horror and it’s been pretty okay. Granted, I only enable the zombie chases (which is what will get you hearing the zombie sounds more-- they’re not AS frequent in the game as you’d expect?) on occasion, and if you’re the type to get anxious/scared fairly easily I wouldn’t recommend running in the dark, especially with chases on. But walking arond in the daytime/at a gym, with or without chases, is usually not too bad?
That being said, I’d say it starts to get dark and live up to its postapocalyptic fiction nature starting about the middle of Season Two or so. My one criticism of ZR is that there’s no real way to be warned about whether or not a mission is going to be particularly gruesome/possibly triggering, and those darker missions crop up with a bit more frequency especially as we dig into Season Three. It hasn’t been quite bad enough to send me into a super tailspin at any point, but there have been a few upsetting missions.
HOWEVER, before you really get to that point, you’re going to have to make the decision to buy the Season Pass, which will give you access past the free missions you get (all of S1, the race missions, and the first half of S2 in terms of storyline stuff.) So if you’re feeling persuaded, I guess you could buy the app and then decide when you’ve run through all of those whether you think it worth it/not so scary you wouldn’t want to continue on?
TL;DR: I personally don’t find it too scary generally (unless at night/with chases at night,) but it DOES start to get dark around the middle of S2, which might be something to consider when buying the app/deciding to buy the season pass.
Other fandom friends, thoughts?