Return to Blackwood Sanatorium
SET SOME 60 years before the horrific events of Until Dawn, The Inpatient ( below) is the latest horror VR experience exclusively on PlayStation4.
ASUS launched its ZenFone 4 family of Android smartphones in Taiwan recently. The lineup consists of six phones, each equipped with a dualcamera.
Two of those phones – the ZenFone 4 Selfie and its Pro variant – took the novel approach. The dual cameras on these devices are pointed towards the face of the phones instead.
Let’s take a closer look at the Asus ZenFone 4 Selfie Pro ( right). Like all the other phones in its line-up, the Selfie Pro is fitted with a 5.5in screen. The Amoled panel used here is capable of producing a full highdefinition resolution.
At 147g, the phone feels very light for its size. It is also thin at only 6.85mm. This makes perfect sense for a phone designed to be held at arm’s length for selfies.
Additionally, it comes with a transparent phone cover that adds protection and muchneeded grip.
Like most phones of its ilk, the design of the Selfie Pro, with its glass display and rounded sides, does not stand out. However, it does come in the colours of discerning deepsea black, the popular sunlight gold, and the distinctive rouge red.
Within its cool exterior is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 processor that is paired with 64GB of expandable storage, and 4GB of memory. These specifications put the Selfie Pro firmly in the mid-range category.
I had no issues with the Selfie Pro’s performance, as its apps and menus work smoothly and as expected.
Nevertheless, certain
In the game, you take on the role of an amnesiac inpatient in the Blackwood Sanatorium.
Over the course of the game, you must find out who you are persistent apps, such as podcast streaming and custom alarm, will not function properly unless you tweak the settings.
This is because of Asus’ powerful and fully customisable, but sometimes fussy, memory management system.
Additionally, the new Zen UI supports app cloning, which means you can have two instances of certain apps such as WhatsApp and Facebook – a feature that I think is a musthave for any dual-SIM phone.
Despite the mid-range specifications, Asus has not held and why you sanatorium.
The Inpatient features branching narrative and different endings. Every choice you make can drastically affect the way the game plays out.
The game is set in the world of Until Dawn, a narrative-driven horror game from Supermassive Games. are in the back when it comes to the cameras on the Selfie Pro.
A Sony flagship IMX362 12megapixel dual-pixel image sensor furnished with an f1.8 lens and a wide 120° lens justifies the phone’s Selfie Pro moniker.
The dual front-facing camera setup gives users a wide variety of shooting options.
The wide lens lets you shoot groups at arm’s length when compared to the more detailed standard lens; and the portrait mode introduces a synthetic bokeh by blurring the background.
In Until Dawn, you play a group of teenagers on holiday in a cabin. Brought together by guilt, the teenagers were soon made to face their past mistakes and an otherworldly horror.
According to Sony Interactive Entertainment Hong Kong Ltd Singapore Branch, The Inpatient will be available on Blu-ray Disc and Digital Download.
It will include English, traditional Chinese, and Korean subtitles, and will be available on Nov 22, at a suggested retail price of RM159 (Disc), and RM149 (Digital Download).
The pre-order for the Digital version is available now and users who pre-order this game will get four additional avatars as a bonus.