Bloober Team, the developer of the psychological horror game "Layers of Fear," announced that the game will be coming to Nintendo Switch as "Layers of Fear: Legacy" on Feb. 21.
The team announced that "Layers of Fear: Legacy" will be available on the Nintendo eShop as a digital download, with the price of $19.99. The upcoming "Layers of Fear: Legacy" will be based on the original "Layers of Fear" game released in Feb. 2016 for Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X, the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 (PS4).
"Layers of Fear" is a first-person horror game, focusing on the story of the protagonist of the game, an unnamed artist. Players will be taking the role of the artist who returned home from a court hearing to work on his magnum opus. As he was doing so, he began hallucinating about his past. Players must solve the puzzles to be able to finish the artist's masterpiece.
Players will soon discover the horrific past of the artist. He was an ambitious painter who has schizophrenia as well as a drinking problem. He had a wife, a pianist who used to be her muse, and a daughter whom he had failed to take care of because of his obsession with painting. Because of his neglect, his wife was driven to commit suicide.
It will then be revealed to players that the artist's mind will finally snap after learning the death of his wife and he will take six of her body parts — skin, blood, bone marrow, hair, a finger and an eye — to use for his masterpiece. The game has three possible endings — bad, neutral and good. In the bad ending, the artist will die in a fire. In the neutral ending, the artist will constantly be redoing his masterpiece. And in the good ending, the artist's magnum opus will be seen in the future at a museum displaying Victorian paintings.
The upcoming Switch version of the game will also include "Layers of Fear: Inheritance," a downloadable content (DLC) for the game. In this version, the players will take on the role of the artist's daughter. The "Layers of Fear: Legacy" trailer can be viewed at this link.
