Back in 1995

Game isn't a masterpiece or anything and probably not for everyone. For me it was neat/fun and hits a itch for the old-school PS1 era horror days. Picked it up on a sale for 2.50 and can't complain for what I got out of a title that cheap.

That was superb.. A real trip back to the era that brought us Alone in the Dark, Resident Evil and more. Janky controls, poor aiming, oversaturated VO, weirdly dramatic droning music, bizarrely translated text notes that don't really make 100% sense... All of it is absolutely pitch perfect for a late-90s 3D console game and PC-ports of console games. In a way, this game exemplifies why I never bothered with a PS1, Why play something janky like this when we had Doom and Quake on the PC? But, after playing this, I get it. The atmosphere, the strange stilted storytelling.. It's all very compelling. People are upset that the game's so short. Yes, it is. My actual time playing (i.e. not on the menu screen) was about 1.5 hours which is pretty short for a game like this. I can't remember how I got the key.. Humble Bundle? A key giveaway? Either way, I didn't pay full price for it, so I don't have any ill-will about being short-changed. In terms of gameplay I'd probably price this game around $3 to $5, simply because it's so short. But, in terms of nostalgia and the art and craft that went into forcing Unity to warp the textures that badly, it's worth way more. If you pay attention, you;ll see that the textures are a bit off... They don't line up properly, or they suddenly step up or down.. All of that's intentional. Unity doesn't do all that, the dev had to force it by adjusting the textures, etc. It's really quite a lot of attention to detail, if you think about it. They could have just made it 320x240, grungy brown pixels with console-like Dalek controls and it'd have been "a fair attempt", but the dev went the extra mile. I think it's funny that some comments are from people playing it who clearly don't appreciate that all of the jank was deliberately coded IN. A superb effort, and I hope the dev creates an expanded version, or does something else similar to be more like Alone in the Dark..