
But there's a moment when you're sticking scissors into a corpse, surrounded by Nazi swastika flags, where it all just feels a bit extra. I'll devour the stuff like Fruit Loops, and I think Pascal Laugier's version of Martyrs is a work of art. Don't go thinking I'm some shivering horror virgin, either. My screenshot folder looks like an accident at an abattoir, and one scene had my trigger fingers stop in their tracks as I realized what was about to happen. Even the developer bookends the game with trigger warnings and links to a mental health charity, and the final scenes get their own special option to play a version censored by the developer itself. I can see why PlayStation censored it - the only platform to do so you'll get the full experience on Xbox and PC - because there are few sentient beings that won't find at least some part of the game truly upsetting. Sinister vibes become brutal violence, questionable mental health becomes raging psychosis, and something really, really bad happens to a wiener dog.

The horror gets grislier as you make your way through the game, not unlike a body decomposing.
