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The horror genre takes a terrifying new turn
Art By Mia Boutelle.
By Mia Boutelle
One of the most popular games the past couple of months has frozen many players with fear. Possibly one of the scariest survival horror games to come out this year has been Five Nights at Freddy’s.
The basic of the game is that you are a man named Mike Schmidt who has taken up a security guard position at the popular children’s pizza parlor, Freddy Fazbears Pizza. (Similar to how we have our Chuck E. Cheese’s) However, on your first night on the job, you are told that the animatronics that are in the place roam at night, and you have to be careful that they don’t show up where you happen to be watching them.
Five Nights at Freddy’s is a point and click game, of course meaning that all you do is point and click to actually accomplish. Being a survival horror game adds to the difficulty, which means that you can’t fight off anything that comes for you, instead the only thing you can possibly do is close the door if anything gets too close, but be cautious, any time you close the door, it takes up power. At first, it sounds quite simple, getting through the first six hours, but then you progress to the next night, then the next, and which each night you pass, it gets much harder.
Being a fan since it was released, I highly recommend it! Being recently released on Steam, Android and iOS devices, it can be played on almost any device, so you could bring horror on the go! The game is definitely challenging, and is great for anyone interested in the survival horror genre. So if you happen to be interested, the games demo can be downloaded for free on the website. This is a must have for anyone who loves horror!
Freshman shares experience with unique creature
By Erin O’Farrell
The wooden gate creaks open, and I peer through an opening, divided from the creature by half a door with rusted iron hinges. The padlock dangles from the chain. I can reach out and touch the animal.
It snorts, its nose flaring. It recognizes me. Its ears flap. I can’t move. I can’t breathe. Its eyes speak many things through the golden and hazel iris, and the intelligence within makes my stomach churn. I stare at it, and I see the muscles on its shoulder flinching despite its quiet, calm and knowing gaze.
I study the black stripes tracing across its head, branching out like the tributaries of a river, coursing across the rest of its body, contrasting tones of black against white.
I’ve only ever seen them on TV or through a fence from far away. Never had I been so close to them, and never had I understood the beauty of it. Looking at it then, its gaze holding mine, I had been practically forced to see and appreciate the complex simplicity of it. I was locked in a state of awe, only realizing within those few seconds how great the creature’s strength was, yet seeing the strength as so fragile. I was terrified that if I so much as took a breath, it would disappear.
Its tail flicks and a hoof drags across the paved floor. Its head turns, peering through an open doorway that leads to a world outside, yet a world still within an enclosure. It casts me one last sideways glance. I hold its gaze, yet the creature disappears before I can understand what happened, its racing steps kicking up dust.
Seeing this creature on TV never allowed me to grasp it as I did then. Watching a herd of them sprint across a screen, their hooves pounding against the ground, never shook me to the core or reverberated through my every bone like it did in person when I was only a couple feet away.
Before I could get a final glance of the creature, the doorway slams shut, leaving it outside and me inside, mesmerized, staring over a wooden gate. A tap on my shoulder shakes me free of the hypnosis, and I open the gate, grab a hose, and begin washing the paved flooring, my minds eye still watching the zebra with its image trapped in my thoughts.
Freshman Madison Kannapel has fun in art class
Freshman Madison Kannapel cuts out her stencil project in art. Photo by Jenna Elsby.
What If…? yearbook front and back cover
This is the front cover for the 2014 yearbook, What If…? This is the back cover for the 2014 yearbook, What… If?
What If…? was chosen as the theme for this yearbook because it has a lot of potential for branching out into sub-themes. It challenges the reader to ask themselves “what if” and to discover the answers within the yearbook. Also the cover is pretty cool looking. On the spine, it’s black and in silver lettering says “Floyd Central High School, Baritzan, 2013-2014, vol. 47”.
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