PlayStation-Inspired Survival Horror Back In 1995 Spooks Nintendo Switch This Week

Playstation! The devil!

I want to try it but I'll wait for a sale.

If I remember correctly, this was supposed to hit the 3DS a couple of years back.

Ok, I get pixel art/8bit/16bit games, but this is just wrong

This is more like Alone in the Dark with slightly better collision and camera mapping.

"tank controls" .... Not a single person feels any warm nostalgia for those bad controls! Who the hell made that decision?

@Zidentia I had a ton of fun in grade school going to my friend's house and we would try to get through Alone in the Dark in his parents PC!

@konbinilife I dunno.. I kinda like that aspect in the old survival horror games.... I really don't see how/why it was so difficult to control... I dont really view it as an archaic control scheme... to me, it's just another control scheme...

@konbinilife yeah I really liked the game and have it still.

Visually speaking, it lacks the same charm of the those PSX era games.

Also cool on Vita.

Now all we need is “Return To Zork” on the Switch! 😄

@Wavey84
I think we are in a period of having so many games that inevitability the caliber starts to suffer for some users. This may appeal to some players as do the 8/16 bit series of games. I think NL is trying to cover what they can so they can refresh their site as much as possible.

The biggest issue here is not that it looks like a PS1 game, but that it looks like an ugly PS1 game.

Yeah... no, just no. This game should have stayed... back in 1995...

Except in an entirely alternate universe, because even back then, games didn't look and feel as crap as this one does. I don't agree all that often with MetaCritic scores, but in this case, it's well-deserved, and I'd even go so far as to say that it's actually pretty mild.

The idea behind it is nice, and maybe even cool, but the execution of it leaves a heck of a lot to be desired.

Hhmmmm, I don’t remember survival horror being so brightly lit back in the day, kinda ruins the atmosphere.

@Zidentia I remember Alone in the Dark on Game Boy Color looking almost as good as this. Not that I'm complaining, I loved the game and was amazed by it (GBC was my only console back then).
I personally wouldn't go back to that visual quality unless it's out of nostalgia, and for that to be effective, it has to be the same game I played back then, not something new that is arbitrarily limited to badly aged graphics and controls as a design choice.

Degica Games

Took only ten seconds to look up the developer. Please be nice to the little guys when posting news articles like this. Ratalaika might be a small publisher themselves, but they likely won't be the ones correcting you if you forget to mention the developer.

Also, I remember seeing this game a while back. I like that they imitated the PS1's lack of Z-buffer, as to get the same style of perspective distortions.

I don't know. This looks more like a bad DS game from 10 years after the advertised year.

Considering that the DS was capable of powerhouses like Mario Kart DS, Dementium, and the still very impressive Metroid Prime Hunters, which look far better than anything on the N64 or the PS1 for that matter, I don't see the appeal of games that are contrived to the constraints of that era except for historical purposes. With such a vast library of quality content available, why settle for rubbish like this?

I admit I did quite enjoy the RE1 port on DS back in the day, and would consider a port of that, but this? Pass.

Looks whack. Bad whack. Filler whack

@Shambo
I agree that it is difficult to go back to this period strictly for replay purposes. The 32/62 bit era graphics are so different and many times blocky which also lends itself to inefficient collision engines due to the mapping.

Probably buying this (finally)
I’ve been wanting to play this for quite some time since I absolutely LOVE silent hill and generally that whole era. Yeah, nostalgia is cold and lying... I know I know but for $10, and maybe less with gold points, come on.

Going to read some reviews now as I seriously weigh up the choice. It’s tough When I can put tag same $10 towards something like Into the Breach or Red-Out or... a few others on my wishlist

If it ain’t Silent Hill, then no thanks.

The graphics and title of this game gave me an idea... What would be cool is a game that involves time travel, where you start with graphics from the late 70s, move into 8-bit style, then 16-bit, then PS1, then N64, then Dreamcast/Gamecube/PS2 and on through to modern 3D graphics.

Edit: Sounds like a game called Evoland already kinda did this. Ah well.

A game made to purposely look ugly? How could I say no.

@BionicDodo The Messenger almost did that but stopped at 16-Bit.

Weren't the static backgrounds the charm? Those backgrounds are 3d aren't they?

This could have been something but those diorama-esque levels that float in some blackness does not convince me the same way early resident evil and silent hill games did. Also, the graphics look like uglified versions of those we saw on PS1.

I'll have to wait for some reviews as I've seen many retro inspired games launch that were just meh. Let's hope this one is actually good

@JedRock Exactly. You just have to adapt to the controls. It wasn't hard back then, why would it be hard now?

Pure Wishlist material then. I'll be preying on this one as soon as it gets discounted.

@Dpullam
Because it's a survival horror, I guess.

When the selling point of the game is "it looks just like it's 24 years old!" it makes me wonder what the point is.

Really more interesting than that Resident Evil 4 port imho. I'm gonna buy it.

Looks interesting, but looks really bad for a psx game.

Cya
Raziel-chan

Looks like butt

@Silly_G THIS game MAY seem like a pass, but I think to respond to your statement about why a company would bother going this route with constrained looking graphics...like, i dunno..to ME, there was something scary about the blurry details of the monsters... take the kids with knives in Silent Hill. They werent that detailed and very simple in design, but that didnt stop them from being/looking terrifying...but there are tons of games these days where monsters are very detailed with their levels of grotesque, yet they dont really do much other than just look visually impressive

I do love a fixed CCTV style camera in my horror games. All the old 80s horror movies used it as well.

Totally buying this friday if it gets the launch discount that it's got on ps4, otherwise buying it on there. Don't really care about the reviews because the look of this is just perfect.