Echo Night: Beyond

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Echo Night: Beyond

Developer(s)	From Software
Publisher(s)	^JPN From Software ^NA Agetec ^EUR Nobilis
Platform(s)	PS2
Release date	^JPN January 22, 2004 ^NA July 27, 2004 ^EUR April 14, 2006
Genre(s)	First-person adventure
Rating(s)	ESRB: Teen (T) PEGI: 7+ OFLC: M

Echo Night: Beyond is an adventure video game for the PlayStation 2 console. It was released during 2004 in Japan and the United States, the European release not following till 2006.

The game tells a science fiction ghost story, set in the not-too-distant future. Players take the role of a newlywed, off for a honeymoon on the moon. The vessel crashes before reaching its lunar resort destination, however, separating the just-married couple and leaving the hero alone at an abandoned research base. Players explore the station from a first-person perspective, inside a spacesuit. In addition to the many spiritual anomalies that seem to haunt the forgotten station, strange lunar lighting and relative weightlessness add to the unfamiliar creepiness of the game's environments.

[edit] Game play

It is a 1st person shooter game but rather than shooting your enemies to bits you run before your heart rate reaches a certain number and you eventually die of a heart attack. You have no means of defending yourself from ghost. You do have a flashlight which if you run out of batteries you will be required to find some more or you'll run though the game in almost complete darkness. The ghosts can be defeated by clearing the mist by using a control panel to activate the ventilation system or by giving them certain items. The only exception to this is the priest ghost who will pop out from time to time. This game also provides you with monitor rooms in certain areas of the map which will let you scout out the area and escape ghosts.