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Relive old-school survival horror in Banned Memories: Yamanashi
There’s something about low poly graphics paired with low-def dithered textures that fits so well with survival horror. It’s undeniably nostalgic, but even beyond my yearning for the days of early PlayStation-era tank-controlled adventures, I still love the way the visual obscurity of “bad graphics” lends more to the imagination. It’s horror in abstraction, and that’s why it’s hard for me to accuse modern creators of being cheaply nostalgic when they go that route. Also, yeah, I’m just a sucker for PSX graphics. Enter—Banned Memories: Yamanashi. Banned Memories is set in a Japanese academy, shut down in 1993 after a…