Interesting game heavily inspired by the original Resident Evil. It's like "Copy my homework but don't make it obvious" kind of inspiration.
I do like RE type games so it was fun to go back to that gameplay flow, fight some undead, search for supplies and puzzle pieces, rattle your brain a bit how to solve said puzzle and die horribly when the zombies hug you to death.
If there is one aspect they nailed with this game it's the combat. Exploration is done in standard 3rd person perspective using only a keyboard but once you engage in combat the game switches to first person mouse aim. The visuals when you switch to first person are really well done, all the environments in the background are represented with perfect amount of darkness and grittiness and also have great lighting, it has that arcade look and feel. Aiming feels smooth and accurate and the feedback for hitting the enemies and watching their melons pop in a fountain of blood never got old. Indeed the game got a couple of jumpscares on me, since during combat you can't move but aim and shoot there were instances where some sneaky zombies decided to increase my heart rate by staying in my blind spot until the last minute lunge. While we on the positives I have to commend the puzzle designs it was a great mix of basic ones, challenging ones and the classic kind you would find in an RE game. Although I am ashamed to admit I had to look up a solution for 2 mid game puzzles, one because I am illiterate at reading musical notes and another because it wasn't quite clear if I have all components to solve it so it felt more like a guessing game.
Now on to the negative side. The game has 6 playable characters, once one guy or gal die you switch to the next retain all found documents, key items, guns and ammo but not health kits. So I thought cool, I got six chances to escape the mansion but that's not entirely true which was quite disappointing to find out, it took out a lot of steam from different character deaths. The game does have quite a few ways you could die instantly so I kind of get why they did it this way but there's also story related reasons.
Speaking of the story and characters this is a second negative for me. Personally I did not vibe with it at all. The characters are all cardboard cutouts of clichés of special forces squad - the strong dumb one who likes guns, the black captain, the computer nerd whos a bit of a weirdo, the old geezer one day from retirement, kawaii medic girl and blonde no nonsense lady again the story kind of gives you an inclination why they're one dimensional but it simply did not stick the landing for me. Game is also quite short clocking in at 4.5 hours.
To wrap it all up, strong RE1 atmosphere, fun gameplay, good puzzles, disappointing story twist, bland characters, can beat it in a single afternoon only recommend it on sale and if you're a big fan of Jill Sandwich.
I do like RE type games so it was fun to go back to that gameplay flow, fight some undead, search for supplies and puzzle pieces, rattle your brain a bit how to solve said puzzle and die horribly when the zombies hug you to death.
If there is one aspect they nailed with this game it's the combat. Exploration is done in standard 3rd person perspective using only a keyboard but once you engage in combat the game switches to first person mouse aim. The visuals when you switch to first person are really well done, all the environments in the background are represented with perfect amount of darkness and grittiness and also have great lighting, it has that arcade look and feel. Aiming feels smooth and accurate and the feedback for hitting the enemies and watching their melons pop in a fountain of blood never got old. Indeed the game got a couple of jumpscares on me, since during combat you can't move but aim and shoot there were instances where some sneaky zombies decided to increase my heart rate by staying in my blind spot until the last minute lunge. While we on the positives I have to commend the puzzle designs it was a great mix of basic ones, challenging ones and the classic kind you would find in an RE game. Although I am ashamed to admit I had to look up a solution for 2 mid game puzzles, one because I am illiterate at reading musical notes and another because it wasn't quite clear if I have all components to solve it so it felt more like a guessing game.
Now on to the negative side. The game has 6 playable characters, once one guy or gal die you switch to the next retain all found documents, key items, guns and ammo but not health kits. So I thought cool, I got six chances to escape the mansion but that's not entirely true which was quite disappointing to find out, it took out a lot of steam from different character deaths. The game does have quite a few ways you could die instantly so I kind of get why they did it this way but there's also story related reasons.
Speaking of the story and characters this is a second negative for me. Personally I did not vibe with it at all. The characters are all cardboard cutouts of clichés of special forces squad - the strong dumb one who likes guns, the black captain, the computer nerd whos a bit of a weirdo, the old geezer one day from retirement, kawaii medic girl and blonde no nonsense lady again the story kind of gives you an inclination why they're one dimensional but it simply did not stick the landing for me. Game is also quite short clocking in at 4.5 hours.
To wrap it all up, strong RE1 atmosphere, fun gameplay, good puzzles, disappointing story twist, bland characters, can beat it in a single afternoon only recommend it on sale and if you're a big fan of Jill Sandwich.