Faith The Unholy Trinity Proves the Mortis is in the Details

Mortis it Up

Faith: The Unholy Trinity has been a long time coming for horror fans. Originally released as a single chapter, this retro-retro horror game has since been fully expanded into three chapters of pixelated terror. A perfect game for the horror season, but there were some details that weren’t as scary as they were frustrating.

Voicing Our Concerns

Faith is designed as a pixelated horror game inspired by the satanic panic of the 80’s. We play as John, a priest who gets called to perform an exorcism on a girl named Amy. When things go horribly wrong, it sets John down the path to confront demons, cults, and some of the most disturbing sights you will see from an 8-bit game. The text-to-speech program is used to great effect to deliver some chilling lines, and there is some brilliant uses of rotoscoping for the cutscenes.

This game certainly goes places with its use of cutscenes

Each chapter is self-contained but continues the overall story from parts 1 to 3. You can see the evolution of the design across the games, with the puzzles and situations becoming more advanced. Your only actions are to move and use your cross to…