Illbleed is a tongue-in-cheek survival horror game and a send-up to horror Clichés. Despite being financially unsuccessful, this game received a worldwide cult following for its notable combination of nonlinear gameplay elements (e.g. trap detection) and bizarre B-movie style comedy horror theme, dialogue and voice acting.
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el mejor juego que no es de terror para jugar en halloween, tiene un gameplay experimental y algo cuestionable pero compensa con su humor, PURA ESENCIA
This is one of those games that you can't grade on any normal scale. It's not fit for human consumption.
ILLBLEED is Dreamcasts' Survival? Horror? Game? that sees you visit a horror park and survive through its traps to get money. The gameplay is unique: it's effectively a game where you do that stupid metal detector puzzle but for the whole game. You walk through the enviroments as your "sight", "hearing" and "smell" senses detect traps and you can use limited quantities of Adrenaline to "tag" traps to disarm them. If you fail to tag a trap you lose health, start bleeding or your heart rate goes up.
The gameplay is awful, consisting of invisible traps and items you find via fourth and final "sixth sense", and battle system is atrocious.
ILLBLEED is a bad video game.
ILLBLEED is also a really great video game.
It's surprising to see a game released at the turn of the century to understand the modern humor so much and be so funny. From its presentation to different traps to various weird levels and situations, ILLBLEED knows that it's B-movie schlock and it runs with it. You fight your way through the 4th wall breaking creatures, you investigate a murder, you go through an adult Toy Story parody where a boy gets sick and dies with his doll that's basically Woody who visits hell and fights pretty much Sonic. Like, it's fucking Sonic.
As a game, ILLBLEED doesn't deserve your time. I didn't have fun, I just wanted to experience it after being familiar with it through let's play. Hell, even if you somehow enjoy it, the core conceit of untagging traps when the traps are the most fun regular thing that happens is broken beyond belief. There are hundreds of animations you just don't get to see when playing well! It's like watching Evil Dead 2 with all the blood removed - the camp is there, but barely any joy.
As an experience, ILLBLEED is sublime. An experiment in creativity so weird and funny I've yet to see a game that even remotely resembles it even in atmosphere alone. It doesn't give a single shit about what it does as long as it has fun. Sure, it might be described as "lolrandom" by some, but there are genuinely funny jokes among the strange and ridiculous.
This is the game that deserves both two stars and a five for me, but even when I was annoyed and angry when playing it myself, I'm just happy it exists. And thankfully we do live in an era of let's plays and streams. ILLBLEED should not be played, but it should be experienced.
ILLBLEED is Dreamcasts' Survival? Horror? Game? that sees you visit a horror park and survive through its traps to get money. The gameplay is unique: it's effectively a game where you do that stupid metal detector puzzle but for the whole game. You walk through the enviroments as your "sight", "hearing" and "smell" senses detect traps and you can use limited quantities of Adrenaline to "tag" traps to disarm them. If you fail to tag a trap you lose health, start bleeding or your heart rate goes up.
The gameplay is awful, consisting of invisible traps and items you find via fourth and final "sixth sense", and battle system is atrocious.
ILLBLEED is a bad video game.
ILLBLEED is also a really great video game.
It's surprising to see a game released at the turn of the century to understand the modern humor so much and be so funny. From its presentation to different traps to various weird levels and situations, ILLBLEED knows that it's B-movie schlock and it runs with it. You fight your way through the 4th wall breaking creatures, you investigate a murder, you go through an adult Toy Story parody where a boy gets sick and dies with his doll that's basically Woody who visits hell and fights pretty much Sonic. Like, it's fucking Sonic.
As a game, ILLBLEED doesn't deserve your time. I didn't have fun, I just wanted to experience it after being familiar with it through let's play. Hell, even if you somehow enjoy it, the core conceit of untagging traps when the traps are the most fun regular thing that happens is broken beyond belief. There are hundreds of animations you just don't get to see when playing well! It's like watching Evil Dead 2 with all the blood removed - the camp is there, but barely any joy.
As an experience, ILLBLEED is sublime. An experiment in creativity so weird and funny I've yet to see a game that even remotely resembles it even in atmosphere alone. It doesn't give a single shit about what it does as long as it has fun. Sure, it might be described as "lolrandom" by some, but there are genuinely funny jokes among the strange and ridiculous.
This is the game that deserves both two stars and a five for me, but even when I was annoyed and angry when playing it myself, I'm just happy it exists. And thankfully we do live in an era of let's plays and streams. ILLBLEED should not be played, but it should be experienced.
such an amazing, campy game with frustrating gameplay. 10/10 ending. SGF's playthrough is probably what popularized the game but it's worth watching
I haven't seen such a unique game in a long time. Original mechanics related to finding traps, original stupid humor and a bunch of movie parodies? Give me two. But the game was clearly made in a hurry and a lot of things were not completed, but as an experiment this is definitely a game that you can try to play, you might even like it like I did.
Настолько уникальной игры я давно не встречал. Оригинальная механика связанная с поиском ловушек, оригинально тупой юмор и куча пародий на кино? Дайте два. Но игру явно делали в спешке и очень много чего было не доделано, но как эксперемент это точно та игра которую можно попробывать поиграть, может даже понравится
Настолько уникальной игры я давно не встречал. Оригинальная механика связанная с поиском ловушек, оригинально тупой юмор и куча пародий на кино? Дайте два. Но игру явно делали в спешке и очень много чего было не доделано, но как эксперемент это точно та игра которую можно попробывать поиграть, может даже понравится
Nishigaki deserved better
Both parody and pastiche, ILLBLEED is a horror-comedy with both survival and action-game elements that was illfated(!) due to the sudden discontinuation of the Dreamcast.
Created by ex Climax Graphics developers (Blue Stinger), these were some of the few people who got any real experience with the Dreamcast hardware, and this game shows off its capabilities wonderfully.
The textures are grimey and gritty, but really vibrant and full of detail, and coloured lighting and fog is used throughout.
The models look great, though characters lack facial expressions during cutscenes, and are partially segment animated, appearing very doll-like. This gives every cutscene both a very funny and uncanny feeling, like you're watching puppets (a theme of the game??).
Crunchy, live reverb using the Dreamcasts sound processor gives the ambient soundtrack of metallic objects, brass instruments, and sharp strings a uniquely digital, eerie vibe.
It manages to be pretty funny in a shlock way, with baffling line deliveries and bizarre turn of events, but just as grotesque and bloody as its source material of monster movies, grindhouse and slasher films, and paranormal thrillers.
Blood is everywhere. Every time you hit or get hit, an over the top explosion of blood sprays everywhere. No More Heroes and Madworld still look less bloody at times than Illbleed.
It has a weird proto-character action controller.You can dodge attacks, and there are i-frames??
This game probably deserves a record just for how many unique jumpscares it contains.
If you're a survival horror fan, and especially a horror film fan, i guarantee you'll appreciate this game. Play it with an emulator so you can see all the shock events.
I could go on forever about this stupid game.
It's my favourite thing.
Created by ex Climax Graphics developers (Blue Stinger), these were some of the few people who got any real experience with the Dreamcast hardware, and this game shows off its capabilities wonderfully.
The textures are grimey and gritty, but really vibrant and full of detail, and coloured lighting and fog is used throughout.
The models look great, though characters lack facial expressions during cutscenes, and are partially segment animated, appearing very doll-like. This gives every cutscene both a very funny and uncanny feeling, like you're watching puppets (a theme of the game??).
Crunchy, live reverb using the Dreamcasts sound processor gives the ambient soundtrack of metallic objects, brass instruments, and sharp strings a uniquely digital, eerie vibe.
It manages to be pretty funny in a shlock way, with baffling line deliveries and bizarre turn of events, but just as grotesque and bloody as its source material of monster movies, grindhouse and slasher films, and paranormal thrillers.
Blood is everywhere. Every time you hit or get hit, an over the top explosion of blood sprays everywhere. No More Heroes and Madworld still look less bloody at times than Illbleed.
It has a weird proto-character action controller.You can dodge attacks, and there are i-frames??
This game probably deserves a record just for how many unique jumpscares it contains.
If you're a survival horror fan, and especially a horror film fan, i guarantee you'll appreciate this game. Play it with an emulator so you can see all the shock events.
I could go on forever about this stupid game.
It's my favourite thing.