I recently got a chance to play Seishin for around an hour on the PlayStation 5 Pro, thanks to a review copy provided by Upscale Studio.
You can find my gameplay video below:
Pros:
- Unique premise.
- Creepy atmosphere.
Cons:
- Repetitive locations.
Overall:
Seishin is a first-person survivor horror game where you are trapped inside a Japanese school with a possessed knife-wielding schoolgirl.
To escape, you need to look for keycards throughout the classrooms, bathrooms and rooftops. The difficulty of the game is based on the number of keycards required to unlock the front door.
As you find more keycards, the schoolgirl will start stalking you more aggressively. While you can easily avoid her in the beginning, dodging her becomes a lot harder as you get closer to your goal.
While Seishin features a unique premise and creepy atmosphere, it does falter a bit when it comes to level design. All the bathrooms and classrooms have the same look outside of the occasional keycards and health pickups.
So, even though the extra difficulty settings add a lot of replay value, the repetitive level designs put a damper to subsequent playthroughs.
If you don’t mind the repetitiveness, then Seishin offers a rather unique twist to the stalker escape subgenre of survivor horror.