

If all characters are killed, then its game over for our intrepid detectives. Unfortunately, if a character’s health is depleted at any point, they are removed permanently from the game. Team mates can use items and swap weapons if they stand close enough together, which instils a sense of team-work to the game-play. Unique to this game is the two-player option a second player can enter the fray at any point by pressing start, and will take over control of your accomplice. The remainder of your team will wait in a designated meeting spot switching characters is simply a matter of talking to the person that you would like to control. As well as your own selected character, you may choose one other teen to accompany you throughout the game. While none of these abilities is integral to the game, they do add an element of personalisation to the way that the game pans out. You can choose which of the kids you want to control, and each has their own special skills Josh, who is something of a nitpicking nerd, is able to detect if there is anything in a room worth investigating, while tough-girl Ashley can perform defensive moves when she is surrounded by enemies. Rather than call the cops, as any cinematically-aware teen would do (don’t they know what happens to highschoolers that get involved in mysterious happenings?), they hide in a classroom until lock-in… but all too late they realise how deep they have plunged, and what horrors await them when the sun goes down…
#Obscure 2 lockpicking school movie
Obscure is undoubtedly the teen slasher movie of the Survival Horror world when school chum Kenny mysteriously goes missing one night at Leafmore High, Josh, Shannon, Stan and Ashley take it upon themselves to investigate.

While these again aren’t spectacular, they are atmospheric and show a lot of attention to detail, from classrooms to dingy service corridors. The game’s bestiary is somewhat bland and uninteresting, leaving the environments the game’s only graphical saving grace. Similarly, the character models are functional enough but no visual candy. Some nice FMV graces the intro and cut scenes of the game, though none of it is particularly awe-inspiring.
