Evil Tonight

The presentation itself is very nice, however I find myself getting frustrated more than having fun in this game, like other reviewers have noted it's lacking many quality of life features, the lack of a map of some sort is very irritating even if that's an intended design feature. Honestly I do not like the dialogue in the game, the main character is really rude to everyone they talk to, and for some reason keeps talking about how hot she is to children, it's very creepy and I don't know why she keeps trying to get validation on her attractiveness from children in the game, so it really makes it hard to return to this game. As well the enemies all feel like bullet sponges, you're given wayyy too much ammo, and every enemy just takes too many shots, I think it would be much better if you were given less ammo but the enemies had less health, but half the game I'm just spamming enemies with my handgun until they die and it never felt scary or tense, It really just feels like an action game with references to survival horror, so it's not really what I was looking for.

Although, it's less of a horror and more of an action game, it's still fun in gameplay aspect. Story is very simple, It's not that rich.

It is surprisingly good.

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A little rpg maker resident evil like, i like the pixel artstyle looks nice, the dialogue is a bad and cringeworthy but the gameplay is solid.

I have some mixed feelings: forget the story... it felt a little bland and lacked a satisfying conclusion. I was especially disappointed that the game didn't follow through on the characters mentioned in the diary logs. The gameplay, however, is great. It feels incredibly smooth, the level design is solid, and exploring the map to find its many secrets is a blast. The pixel art is also fantastic. My only major complaint is a specific design flaw that completely messed up my challenge runs. When you hit an enemy, they stagger back for a set time before attacking again. However, the stagger animation seems to be hard-coded to their physical backward movement. If you hit an enemy who is backed completely against a wall, they can't move backward, causing their stagger window to abruptly end in less than a tenth of a second. It is completely unexpected, and I lost both a no-save run and a no-healing run to this unintended mechanic. It’s no big deal if you are just playing casually, but it is a massive headache if you are hunting the extra achievement playthroughs. Bottom Line: The devs put out a good little game here. It isn't terribly long, running about 4 to 5 hours and it’s a perfect pickup on sale if you value smooth, tight gameplay over narrative.

Evil Tonight is a cute top down Resident Evil like game. Outside of RE4, it's a series/genre I didn't play much of but Evil Tonight kept my attention the entire time & makes me want another game with our protag, Silvia. It took me around 3 & 1/2 hours to beat the game on Balanced. The puzzle aren't too hard and are pretty interesting. The weapon selection is small but they each have their use. There is a lot of back tracking since the game takes part in a single academy and that might be a weak point for some. I give the game a solid 8/10. Here is a tip for anyone picking up the game, be resourceful and use the knife!

With the caveat that I am not intimately familiar with survival horror games, I'd recommend this as a part of the DYA collection. As in, if you buy that, don't skip it, but on its own merits? There's a lot of flaws. I enjoyed the gameplay loop in general; the combat is punchy, the field is big enough to feel rewarding during exploration but small enough that backtracking doesn't feel too cumbersome, the antagonist's story is relatable and touches on the casual cruelty of those in power. The artwork is, as always, top notch - DYA has never failed to impress me there - as is the music and sound design. Enemy calls are readable and distinct, the gunfire is convincingly powerful, and I found my heart racing for a lot of the game. I may not have screamed, but I certainly yelped a few times. For that matter, kudos for the judicious use of jump scares. There's no getting away from them these days, but it's nice to see horror that actually relies on building an atmosphere. There's a lot to love here, or I wouldn't be working on my third play through. Commando Mode completely changes the now-familiar mechanics, vibes jumping straight from Resident Evil 1 to 5. I'm shocked more players haven't gone for it. That said. The protagonist is shallow and obnoxious, acting as the butt of the same misogynistic joke over and over (though I did laugh at one variant, I'll give you that.) The onboarding is textbook What Not To Do, hiding the entire tutorial in an item in the inventory - which you have to open by trying the buttons and seeing which one does so. It's like a manual that begins with how to open the box it's inside of, which is a real thing that happened with the Apple III back in the 80s by the way. That one was a joke, though. Because of this, it took me until the aforementioned Commando run to realize that you could access your knife without actively equipping it, which raises the question of why it's in the weapon rotation at all. Speaking of combat, there were several occasions where enemies randomly wandered far enough south to be completely obscured by the perspective. I am open to being ambushed by the almost invisible enemies because I failed to look for them, but having one of the most damaging single attacks land because I had no way of knowing an enemy was behind that bookcase feels terrible. That maid didn't earn it. This effect is significantly aggravated in the Commando mode, which spawns randomly chosen enemies from the entire pool in large numbers. I had loads of fun navigating that, but it created many more opportunities for me to feel cheated. But hey, this is a good time to talk about the enemy variety. There's a surprising number of enemy types for a project of this size, and none of them are reskins of the same threat. Each and every one serves a specific, unique purpose on the field, and they're deployed quite artfully in the normal campaign. Having recently finished a much more Produced game with only three (including a boss), it was really refreshing to see this level of care put into the enemy design. And since I haven't mentioned it yet, finishing multiple playthroughs exposed something I thought was really cool: The puzzles are procedurally generated. The methods of finding their solutions are always the same, but you can't just memorize everything and blast through them on subsequent runs. I'm sure the speedrunning crowd will consider that a negative, but it helped keep my time with the game fresh, and it's - again - a level of care and insight into the design that I really appreciate. That I am enjoying myself enough to recommend it despite my complaints does, I hope, speak to the overall quality of the experience. Just...if nothing else? Please, guys. Please get a woman to look at the script before you ship. It was acceptable when everyone was a caricature, but as the only character who behaves that way in a plot meant to be taken seriously, it just hurts the entire product.

It's a pretty cool game; think Illusion of Gaya, but with guns and creepy hallways with marked off keyholes. It's clearly inspired by Resident Evil, but it's about ghosts in a spooky dance conservatory. I've played some Resi-inspired games as of late, but this one I'm having the most fun with. The combat DOES get pretty stale, but I'm not a huge fan of this type of gameplay anyways, so take that as you may. I'm not sure if I'll finish, since I hit a spot that felt like a pretty steep difficulty curve after a major boss fight, but perhaps that's just by design, and if I play a little more I'll finally find that one gun I know I'm missing. Doesn't seem like there's much PAST beating the game, so maybe I'll come back to this one when I have more time. Until then, I recommend it, if anything I said above seems reasonable. It's a small studio game, making a SOLID SNES-like game.