I appreciate the response. Although I don't need a full grasp of the horror elements of the game (as you said, knowing everything would diminish the horror) I find it difficult to be scared at all when there is so little to go off of. Say like with zombie shit, that shit scared the FUCK out of me, and its due to the infectious nature of it. At first I thought this was going down a similar route, but June, our player character and therefore audience insert, is seemingly unnaffected, which separates me from the whole horror of being infected. Now obviously homegirls who go into the ocean die from at the very least drowning, but the reasoning why, if hinted at, could add to the horror or depravity in my eyes. Was it all for nothing? A revenge plot by the sea herself, as if, like in the novel Solaris, it was a living breathing being? I think I completely agree with you about knowledge and horror, and that knowing too much certainly diminishes the tension of the scary media, but I also think knowing too little can do that too, and that's how I feel about this game hah. Sorry this is a lot lolz, didn't expect to get so into it, but for me at least, this has been a pretty interesting conversation haha!