![]() games Ive played: interesting story, fun levels to explore, and good voice acting. At the end, Stanley will destroy the Mind Control Facility pushing the OFF button, disabling the controls. Were excited to announce In Sound Mind is now available on Switch. A sound mind in a sound body, or in Latin Mens sana in corpore sano, is a well-known motto. Trust me, though: when you find that shopping cart, give it a few boots from me. Obey everything The Narrator tells you to do. On a tablet you cannot write the new till you rub out the old, on the mind you cannot rub out the old except by writing in the new. The mind, he argued, is not like a wax tablet. ![]() Ultimately, In Sound Mind is walking some well-worn paths-the horror equivalent of competently made comfort food. To that end, Bacon advised us to use aphorisms, illustrations, stories, fables, analogiesanything that conveys truth from the discoverer to his readers as clearly as a picture. During a sequence in the nightmarish reflection of a shopping center, it was hard to ignore that the game was asking me to defeat a ghost by repeatedly exposing her to the trigger for her psychosis-essentially asking me to weaponize a woman’s own fatal psychological trauma against her to progress. It doesn’t help that when In Sound Mind tries to paint with psychology as part of its horror palette, some of its attempts dip from clumsy to tasteless. Maybe most damning is that its enemies, including each area’s boss, felt more inconvenient than scary. There are plenty of little jumpscares and spooky thuds, occasional brief glimpses at lurking threats, but nothing that spiked the heart rate as much as I’d hoped. If I’m really disappointed by anything, it’s that In Sound Mind never felt particularly horrifying.
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