The graphics and presentation were praised, but critics found the gameplay somewhat repetitive, predictable, and derivative of previous horror titles.
Haunting Ground was released April 2005 and received generally mixed reviews. Capcom added the dog mechanic during development thinking retailers and players alike would not enjoy a survival horror title with a lone female protagonist. He can be given orders to explore the environment, attack enemies, and otherwise aid in Fiona's survival. Hewie is a central part to the gameplay, and accompanies Fiona throughout the game. Sometimes Fiona will panic when in danger, in which case she begins to run on her own and the player loses some control. The player controls Fiona as she explores the environment, evades and hides from enemy pursuers, and occasionally fights against the castle's inhabitants. The game shares many similarities with Capcom's earlier survival horror title Clock Tower 3 (2002), and has been described as a spiritual successor to the Clock Tower series. She quickly befriends a White Shepherd, Hewie, and begins to explore the castle with his aid to seek a means of escape and unravel the mysteries of it and its inhabitants. The story follows Fiona Belli, a young woman who wakes up in the dungeon of a castle after being involved in a car accident. Rating: PG-13, for disturbing thematic material involving sexual assault and for languageĬast: Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering, Amy Herdy, Caroline Heldman, Diane RosenfeldHaunting Ground, known in Japan as Demento, is a survival horror video game developed and published by Capcom for the PlayStation 2 in 2005. If nothing else, “The Hunting Ground” should make that kind of evasion more difficult in the future. Fear of retaliation often keeps faculty and administration from speaking up for students or talking at all. “The Hunting Ground” posits that money keeps these centers of higher learning from doing more about these complaints. Her suicide is discussed by her father, Tom. Mary”s College of Indiana student Lizzy Seeberg. Some of the film”s most wrenching first-person stories involve accusations against athletes, including the story of St. But a confluence of financial factors apparently makes these institutions all but untouchable. The positive energy this campaign evokes is a much-needed bright spot in a story that doesn”t have a lot of them.Īs “Hunting Ground” thoroughly details, powerful factors are arrayed against students who report being assaulted, starting with what writer Caitlin Flanagan calls “the American fraternity industry.” According to the film, fraternity men are three times more likely than other men to commit rape. They then traveled the country creating the organization End Rape on Campus to help women at other schools do the same. It was bitter dissatisfaction with how the University of North Carolina treated them that led students Annie Clark and Andrea Pino to become friends and then take a more activist route, filing a Title IX anti-gender discrimination complaint against their school.
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According to one statistic cited by “Hunting Ground,” serial predators are responsible for 91 percent of all sexual assaults on campus, with each committing an average of six assaults.Īs in the military, most survivors of assault at college feel that the often-hostile, disbelieving, blame-the-victim response of the institution they believed in was as difficult to deal with as the attack itself. These assaults are often the work of calculated predators who target victims and wait for opportunities. Given that the colleges and universities mentioned are geographically and culturally diverse - including Berkeley, Tufts, Yale, Swarthmore and the University of Southern California - it”s striking how similar the situations, as well as the official responses, turn out to be. Skeptics have challenged those statistics, but “Hunting Ground” also features heartbreaking first-person interviews about the specifics of the attacks and their aftermath. That”s an estimated 100,000 assaults for the coming year, but only 5 percent get reported. The statistics are unnerving: One in five college women and one in 33 college men will be sexually assaulted during their time on campus. Three years ago, they teamed up on “The Invisible War.” Now, with “Hunting Ground,” the team explores sexual assault on college campuses. Documentary director Kirby Dick and producer Amy Ziering can often be found in the eye of a hurricane.