{"rewrite":{"id":"r_730b6ebaf798be1cd6a3d5f3","clusterId":"c_ee8857a141205e8b5ab1dbd5","slug":"nte-s-new-horror-commissions-vary-widely-in-scare-level","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"NTE's New Horror Commissions Vary Widely in Scare Level","summary":"NTE: Neverness to Everness added four Anomaly commissions in Ver.1.4, all with horror elements: a tiny-person escape from a giant kitten, a haunted house, a nightmare world, and a ghost bus full of mannequins. The horror varies sharply across them, and new character Kurobane's flight and item use can skip puzzles and chases outright.","whyItMatters":"The scare ratings and puzzle-skipping show NTE's horror content is optional in practice, and an author who tested all four found the range wide enough that players bad with horror can still complete them.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe four Ver.1.4 additions land across a range: the mirror-world escape with the giant kitten is rated 1 out of 5, while the ghost bus of mannequins sits at the other end and stopped the author in their tracks. The ratings are the author\u0026#39;s personal fear level, not a verdict on how fun each one is.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMechanics cut against the scares. Kurobane, a new Ver.1.4 character, and Requiem can fly past furniture footholds and puzzle gimmicks. Those shortcuts are the same kind of accidental power creep the author treats as typical NTE.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Kurobane's flight and item use can skip NTE's Anomaly chases and puzzles outright, so the scariest commission is only as scary as the character you bring into it.","twitterPost":"In NTE, Kurobane's flight and item use can skip the Anomaly chases entirely, so scare level depends on the character you bring.","threadsPost":"NTE's four Anomaly commissions vary sharply in scare level, from a giant kitten to a ghost bus of mannequins. Kurobane's flight and item use can skip puzzles and chases outright, which means the horror is only as fixed as the character you bring.","newsletterBlurb":"NTE: Neverness to Everness added four Anomaly commissions in Ver.1.4, and an Automaton playthrough rates their scare level from 1 to 5. The giant-kitten mirror world is the mildest, with horror ramping toward a ghost bus of mannequins. New character Kurobane's flight can bypass puzzle and chase sections.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Automaton\",\"url\":\"https://automaton-media.com/articles/special-column/20261024-475341/\",\"title\":\"Free-to-play \\\"NTE\\\"'s new horror elements have a strange sense of \\\"how scary to make it\\\"; horror on par with other games casually mixed in, and even the \\\"bugs\\\" being scary is unfair\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4690,"outputTokens":610,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1792905756,"createdAt":"2026-10-25T05:17:38.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-25T05:21:07.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-25T05:21:07.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_ee8857a141205e8b5ab1dbd5","canonicalTitle":"基本プレイ無料『NTE』の新ホラー要素は「怖さの加減」がおかしい。しれっと混ざる別ゲー級ホラー、“バグ”まで怖いのは反則","representativeArticleId":"a_72eb2480337ad6bf25ff18f5","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"NTE\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-25T03:00:17.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-25T03:00:17.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-25T05:21:06.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Automaton","url":"https://automaton-media.com/articles/special-column/20261024-475341/","title":"基本プレイ無料『NTE』の新ホラー要素は「怖さの加減」がおかしい。しれっと混ざる別ゲー級ホラー、“バグ”まで怖いのは反則"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["NTE"],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"news","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}