It was 100 percent white-knuckle tension, and we did a lot of research after the fact and people were coming back and saying, ‘I never even listened to the logs sometimes because I was so scared of something jumping me out of a dark corner,’ and we don’t want people to be sacrificing their understanding of the story and their enjoyment of the environment because they’re always so scared.
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yes, we are still Dead Space, we’re gonna scare the pants off you as many times as we can, but Issac’s been through this before