RAW FOOTAGE

In Raw Footage, you play a suicidal eejit who's perfectly willing to be disembowelled by a brutish beastie in the name of becoming a YouTube celebrity. Armed only with your trusty vidja camera, you plunge into some mysterious backwoods in an alternate dimension where it takes mere minutes to pass through all the lighting cycles of a day and night, in search of the creature and the corpses it has discarded in its wake. Unfortunately, as anyone who's ever wasted tens of hours of their life sifting through YouTube videos looking for convincing evidence of strange phenomena knows, this is an era in which every duckhead and his dog can fake such footage with cheap CGI and/or shoddy make-up effects, invariably aided by a shaky camera and dubiously dodgy focus. So in order to present irrefutable proof of the monster's existence, you must attain [i]minutes[/i] of footage of it charging towards you before anyone will believe you. Cheap criticisms of the "plot" aside, it's actually a pr...

It's a fun concept with some neat ideas, but I wouldn't recommend this game to most people, because I think a few issues need to be addressed first. It seems bizarrely difficult to get enough footage of the creature, considering that it doesn't always count if you record from a distance. A brightness or gamma option would be nice as a lot of the game is incredibly (almost unnecessarily) dark. I got stuck in between some rocks while tracking the creature in the Blackwood Pines. Also, whilst playing, there was a gap of about 20 minutes where nothing occured, despite making noises and trying to lure the creature out. This made me pretty bored and I gave up. Perhaps I was just unlucky though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3LEhrJRdJw

This game isn't for me, but that doesn't make it a bad game. My problems are mostly 'git gud' related sadly. From what I was able to play, it was kind of fun to wander around and try to film a monster. It's a neat idea and I hope to see the Devs expand a bit more on it someday, hopefully with kinder brightness settings and maybe a difficulty setting for people like me who are terrible at games. :P Solid.

gameplay video 1: https://youtu.be/lkGa9Os0Pp0 gameplay video 2: https://youtu.be/Dc9MMPgQuV0 Raw Footage is another "go out into the woods and do a random objective, oh and there's INSERT RANDOM EVIL FORCE HERE" style game. In this game you go into the woods to find five dead campers and capture footage of the thing that killed them. It's like a mix of Slender: The Eight Pages and Fatal Frames, but throw in some Wick or Devil in the Pines for good measure. On top of falling prey to some stereotypical tropes to this survival investigative horror game like garbage flashlight mechanics and lack of a compass, Raw Footage does have some issues with the monster. In a later gameplay it was able to hit me maybe ten feet away, not to mention you cannot hide from it. It WILL find you, attack you, then leap straight up into the sky and disappear [just wait for the second episode I post, as I have the footage to prove this madness]. Admittedly, it just get one good jump scare out of me, so it's...

Cool game. I would purchase sequel or DLC if more content came available. Great atmosphere and tension. Good surround sound and graphics are good. Game was frustrating at first, glad I stuck it out until I figured out optimal brightness settings and strategy. The maps made me feel like I was enterning a dangerous and unknown forrest all 3 times. Felt really good to get the heck out of those forests once I recorded the RAW footage. Indy Games like this one keep me coming back and taking a chance on other Indy games.

TL;DR - If you like playing Forest Collection Games, it's good. The concept is more interesting than most, but the execution is poor. Giving it a thumbs up cause I want it to update and get better. If you enjoy games like Slender, Rake, that one Bigfoot game that was pretty much just Rake, you'd like this game. The concept is interesting, as far as Go-Into-The-Woods-And-Collect-Em-Ups go. The recording makes you HAVE to interact with the monster, which is more than can be said for other games where all you have to do is survive. But the monsters aren't really interesting enough to want to look at, and they're too hard to find without exposing yourself and risk getting your shit kicked. It prioritizes tanking the hits over sneaking around and watching these creatures behave in their territory. Maybe that wasn't the point of the game, but I would have preferred the voyueristic approach. Took me 20 minutes to find the monster in The Woods, and by then I'd gotten all but 1 achieveme...