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'''''Sylvio''''' is a 2015 first-person horror title by Apostrophe. It follows Juliette Waters as she attempts to communicate with lingering ghosts at the Saginaw Family Park, which has been closed for decades following a disastrous landslide. As usual for this sort of thing, there's more to the park than meets the eye.

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'''''Sylvio''''' ''Sylvio'' is a 2015 first-person horror title by Apostrophe. It follows Juliette Waters as she attempts to communicate with lingering ghosts at the Saginaw Family Park, which has been closed for decades following a disastrous landslide. As usual for this sort of thing, there's more to the park than meets the eye.

----''Sylvio'' was initially released for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, and was then ported to UsefulNotes/Playstation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne in 2017. The sequel, ''Sylvio 2'', was also released in 2017.







* WhisperingGhosts: ''The Game''.

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* WhisperingGhosts: ''The Game''.Game''.
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* [[spoiler:IndianBurialGround]]: [[spoiler:The park was the site of a 17th century native American massacre. Sylvio and the mist are both strongly connected to the lingering spirits, and were presumably released by the landslide.

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* [[spoiler:IndianBurialGround]]: [[spoiler:The park was the site of a 17th century native American massacre. Sylvio and the mist are both strongly connected to the lingering spirits, and were presumably released by the landslide.]]
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* SurrealHorror: In contrast to the rest of the game's psychological style, everything about the skeletons and their balloons is just bizarre.

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* SurrealHorror: In contrast to the rest of the game's psychological style, everything about the skeletons and their balloons is just bizarre.bizarre.
* WhisperingGhosts: ''The Game''.
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* AndIMustScream: All of the ghosts are stuck in "the tunnel". [[spoiler:Possibly Juliette at the end, too.]]


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* BarredFromTheAfterlife: In the words of one ghost, "The tunnel never ends."


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* GhostAmnesia: One of the ghosts doesn't know its name, or much of anything, really.
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* [[spoiler:IndianBurialGround]]: [[spoiler:The park was the site of a 17th century native American massacre. Sylvio and the mist are both strongly connected to the lingering spirits, and were presumably released by the landslide.
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** [[spoiler:Juliette also appears to become one at the end.]]



* CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption: Four crows will be incinerated over the course of the game. By you.
* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: Juliette discovers Bobby's girlfriend Jill, who is apparently being used to power some unknown machine. When Juliette releases her, the scene abruptly cuts to a new female silhouette (Juliette's?) appearing in the park. The camera pans over the park while the credits roll, before finally resting on the player's collected music sheets sitting on a piano in a previously unseen house.]]



* NothingIsScarier: In true psychological horror fashion, there are very few enemies, but lots of places where it feels like there ''should'' be enemies.

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* NothingIsScarier: In true psychological horror fashion, there are very few enemies, but lots of places where it feels like there ''should'' be enemies.enemies.
* StoryBreadcrumbs: Par for the course. Fifty percent of the writing could be considered ArcWords.
* SurrealHorror: In contrast to the rest of the game's psychological style, everything about the skeletons and their balloons is just bizarre.
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Each major area features a "boss battle" with [[spoiler:gigantic silhouettes of the people trapped inside Sylvio]].

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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Each major area features a "boss battle" with [[spoiler:gigantic silhouettes of the people trapped inside Sylvio]]. In an odd case, they're completely unaware of Juliette's presence.

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'''''Sylvio''''' is a 2015 first-person horror title by Apostrophe. It follows Juliette Waters as she attempts to communicate with lingering ghosts at the Saginaw Family Park, which has been closed for decades following a disastrous landslide.

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'''''Sylvio''''' is a 2015 first-person horror title by Apostrophe. It follows Juliette Waters as she attempts to communicate with lingering ghosts at the Saginaw Family Park, which has been closed for decades following a disastrous landslide.
landslide. As usual for this sort of thing, there's more to the park than meets the eye.



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*AbnormalAmmo: Juliette finds and uses a makeshift bazooka that mostly fires debris: potatoes, rocks, screws, and glass shards, among other things.
*AntagonistTitle: Sort of. [[spoiler:It's ambiguous what exactly Sylvio is, but he appears to be the force keeping the ghosts from moving on, so he's definitely antagonistic from their perspective.]]
*ApocalypticLog: Bobby's reels take on this quality near the end.
*AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Each major area features a "boss battle" with [[spoiler:gigantic silhouettes of the people trapped inside Sylvio]].
*ArcWords: Several, considering the game is all about discovering disjointed words and phrases from otherworldly recordings.
**"Have you been to Honolulu?"
**"The blood of the mist inside my skin."
**"Tunnel"
*MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The Saginaw pesticide is at one point mentioned to cause hallucinations. Considering it's made from the gas covering the park...
*NothingIsScarier: In true psychological horror fashion, there are very few enemies, but lots of places where it feels like there ''should'' be enemies.
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->''My name is Juliette Waters. I work as an audio recordist specialized in EVP: Electronic Voice Phenomena. Or as my friends say, I'm a ghost recorder. But I like to see it more as a two-way communication. I'm intrigued to know why they chose to linger in between the worlds. Or maybe they didn't choose at all. Maybe something is holding them back. Maybe I can help them take that step into the light. I don't know, but I can hear them. They're talking. And that's why I record.''

'''''Sylvio''''' is a 2015 first-person horror title by Apostrophe. It follows Juliette Waters as she attempts to communicate with lingering ghosts at the Saginaw Family Park, which has been closed for decades following a disastrous landslide.

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