‘Assessment Examination’ Probes Pictures for People to Distrust
Assessment Examination is an unsettling test to see if you’re capable of gauging whether you can trust someone or not purely by looking at them.
You’re taking an application test to become a part of the Authenticity Assessment Department. Its duty seems to involve taking a look at people and determining if they’re a threat. It’s not a lot of information to go on, but then again, this test seems far from ordinary. It asks you questions about whether you fear god, or if you’re afraid of losing family members. Already, it seems like we’re being threatened by the test itself. Is the person who wrote it somewhere within the pictures to come? Because I don’t feel like I can trust that person much.
At this point, you’re shown pictures of people. Some of them look relatively normal, while others have something off about their images. While you might be looking for something about them to indicate a threat, many of these don’t show any signs of anything. They all just look like people. So, you have nothing left to do but pore over each picture, attempting to find something of note. Some reason not to trust them. It leads you into this kind of fear of these folks, probing their every feature to see if something about them gives you the answers you need. Also, all kinds of weird images, emergency calls, and creepy ads for parks play as you do your work. As if it isn’t weird enough on its own.
Assessment Examination swiftly creates an atmosphere of mistrust in you, making you feel like something is wrong with this test, and that’s there’s something far worse wrong with all of the people pictured in it. And I can’t help but feel like something within the images might be staring right back at me, sometimes. Something about staring into a picture’s eyes for too long has that effect on me, which made my time with this game even more uncomfortable.
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