Honestly after playing the dead space remake and seeing a horror game done correctly, I got to say
The gameplay.
When a game forces gore out of no where, it loses the scare factor. When dead space for example uses gore, it actually can scare you with it and is meant to enhance the dark, gritty. Lonely environment.
Theirs no one at the pizzaplex to have gore OF.
that's not to say don't add horror, but adding gore would just have the opposite effect. Gore doesn't not equal a scary game.
Puzzles in sb would be nice, actually add some challenge to the game. Although that wouldn't really fix the majority of its problems.
But gameplay is the best one to fix. After playing a actual horror game and seeing the difference in gameplay; sb's gameplay has a incredulous amount to improve, even more than I thought before.
A game can be a fetch quest and actually be a good game, sb just makes it incredibly stale and not interesting in between. actually adding interesting moments and jump scares would improve the game drastically.
And , changing some of the objectives to do more than "Flip this" and "Get this" every single time.
The story of sb that we experience in the game play is poorly established, written, and executed. Yes, they add little gift bags with occasional notes. but they don't answer much and don't have as much major impact on the lore. And any they do feels like a single piece of the puzzle that they intend to never let you solve.
In comparison, dead space places audio logs and text logs literally every where and help with world building. Yes. It has several questions but they give you a lot of clues to figuring it all out and actually intend for you to solve it.
Not to mention, they have side missions explaining certain things in the story.
