https://steamoss.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2984463062

Here's The Thing:
You see the world, now in the wake of the KN028 virus having ravaged it and turned millions into zombies, through Alfred’s eyes and suffering is the life many are all too familiar with… He wakes up one day to find his brother Jake has gone to seek out one “Captain Jack” who’s supposedly taking in survivors. Antsy that the worst has happened, he sets out to catch up to his only family before it’s too late ~



Plays somewhat like a mutated sister of Resident Evil’s (RE) tank control and Silent Hill’s (SH) 3D over-the-shoulder camera! A welcome change that then immediately plunges you into familiar territory as well as mechanics like having precious ink ribbons to save progress, storage boxes, green herbs to munch on… or snort. Well, you get the picture; an obvious homage that doesn’t bother to cover its tracks.

There are even minuscule brain teasers such as cracking number combinations, the now-obligatory sliding picture puzzle, way-finding to proceed to the next area, and the usual birds and the bees of survival! You should be right at home with the combat seeing as it gets the job done despite being otherwise elementary and not going overboard on the weapon variety.

The first run occupies roughly 3 hours on account of the hard-hitting zombies and a handful of careless deaths. $2 for a RE-like title seems overly generous, but alas there’s a catch- several in fact. See you in the cons~

TIPS:
1) Knife can stun-lock the zombie goons.


The low-poly graphics grant it that dose of PS1 nostalgia which would’ve been enough to sway your judgement, but the list of locations you’re to frequent; however little the actual resemblances give it that extra kick of reminiscence towards the named survival horror games regardless! The vacant city streets are grand and disorderly, their presence only extending onto the areas you’re to frequent. Whether it be a derelict apartment building where hope goes to inhabit before committing suicide, a police station that’s seen better days just longing for crime, a hospital so desperate for patients it will inflict- so on and so forth.

I appreciated and adored the sound design more than anything it had to offer visually… It complemented the loneliness and deathly silent atmosphere by having you walk-run with either nothing but the noises you make or the snarls of zombies. RE/SH-ish music only materializes out of thin air in safe rooms (if even then), boss encounters, jumpscares, and when Alfred literally whips out his instrument to strum away and sing a tune~
https://steamoss.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2984465756


The plot is largely exempt of any profound influences and probably the most original out of everything! That said, the searching for family plot line gave me throwbacks to RE2 & SH (1999); the looking for a safe haven- RE Afterlife. The minutely open-world design of a city in ruins recalled specific instances of SH Origins, The Last of Us, and I Am Legend. Seems like a lot of watered-down caricatures, but they didn’t come off as such. It appeared to genuinely attempt (emphasis on this) to tell a heartfelt story that could rival even The Walking Dead only more close-knit and small-scale~



While I’m most thankful the narrative isn’t as heavily plagiarized as their previous entry Evil Is Back, which by the way they’ve gotten away with, this time they’ve reached a new low… What’d they do? Well, they copied RE & SH in a “style over substance” manner and once more have to lean on nostalgia for crutches! This particular endeavor grossly reminded me of Delivery Man (DM), which was yet another game averse to the word “new” and inserted only what they themselves thought were the most telling elements of what made a RE title!

This naturally led to the existence of previously context-laden puzzles which shouldn’t otherwise belong here for they defy all logic. With the only explanation being, well, other than the fact that the OGs had them back then; ergo their inclusion is more than justified. Despite DM doing it a tinge better, both were outright starved of any worthwhile personality or memorable characters… serving solely as placeholder “remember that more interesting individual in RE/SH? Yeah, good times”.


I was feeling the locations initially, but variety did JAKE all in taking away from the reality that they were subpar in their dressing and layout. I thought the apartment was the biggest offender with rooms that differed little to none from each other. But really, every single area was ridiculously spacious and identical in their environmental storytelling thanks to repeating props… Almost as if to exclaim “forget interesting set pieces, we just need places to pad the runtime” which becomes gospel in the next cons~


You would think “RE-esque title” and “fun” are synonymous, well think again; the latter is aggressively as well as aggravatingly replaced by long bouts of backtracking. Sheer amount of plot-bending done to allow for key items to be found in places that, in a sane world, would have zero chances of being associated! This key with no discernible markers whatsoever must open that locked door from halfway across the city…! DUH!!

The bullet sponge bosses painfully drain the fun out of the very sad amount there already was. To add insult to injury? 2/3 of bosses could’ve been easily bypassed by simply ignoring them had you been permitted to use your brain. It’s only cause the game forces you to deal with them by making that completely unobstructed gap and the door that wasn’t locked suddenly inaccessible. Lastly, the degree of inventory stupidity going on whereby picking up similar items don’t automatically pool them together and so you have to slow travel to safe rooms to dump your crap. It’s just a whole thing to artificially pad the runtime in terms of gameplay~
https://steamoss.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2984468786


Put simply, Twitch streamers rarely make for good voice actors. There, said it! At least pick the semi-decent ones much like Night at the Gates of Hell did. If I wanted disinterested & soulless reads that border on hilarity, I would just view an adult film~


x Entering a new area, the camera does this thing where it flies towards the player-
x 2 of 3 bosses can be exploited through environmental means.
x Alfred clips with certain objects
x Camera stutters when touching the environment
x Textures keep changing place…
x Auto-aim disabled when an object gets in your way.


~ Gun reloads automatically…!
~ Map opacity is terrible.
~ “Files” menu has more slots than there are notes! Misleading.
~ Short black screens after QTEs are jarringly intrusive.



Last Words?
Scarily basic survival horror that bares too much of its muses… Save for a few scraps of novelty & sincerity; winds up feeling derivative, ill thought out, and rushed. “Affordable” came at a price~

[code]Curator page here-->[url=https://steamoss.com/steamstore/curator/37670120/] DaRevieweD #229 [/url]<-- [i]New review every week[/i][/code] [h1]"JUST CAUSE IT’S CHEAP…"[/h1] https://steamoss.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2984463062 [u]Here's The Thing:[/u] You see the world, now in the wake of the KN028 virus having ravaged it and turned millions into zombies, through Alfred’s eyes and suffering is the life many are all too familiar with… He wakes up one day to find his brother Jake has gone to seek out one “Captain Jack” who’s supposedly taking in survivors. Antsy that the worst has happened, he sets out to catch up to his only family before it’s too late ~ [h1][u][+] PROS;[/u][/h1] [h1]:) A-HA, SEE WHATCHU DID THERE. I’LL TAKE YOU ON~[/h1] Plays somewhat like a mutated sister of [b]Resident Evil’s (RE)[/b] tank control and [b]Silent Hill’s (SH)[/b] 3D over-the-shoulder camera! A welcome change that then immediately plunges you into familiar territory as well as mechanics like having precious ink ribbons to save progress, storage boxes, green herbs to munch on… or snort. Well, you get the picture; an obvious homage that doesn’t bother to cover its tracks. There are even minuscule brain teasers such as cracking number combinations, the now-obligatory sliding picture puzzle, way-finding to proceed to the next area, and the usual birds and the bees of survival! You should be right at home with the combat seeing as it gets the job done despite being otherwise elementary and not going overboard on the weapon variety. The first run occupies roughly 3 hours on account of the hard-hitting zombies and a handful of careless deaths. $2 for a RE-like title seems overly generous, but alas there’s a catch- several in fact. See you in the cons~ [u]TIPS:[/u] 1) Knife can stun-lock the zombie goons. [h1]:) PLAYS YOU LIKE A FIDDLE, BUT THAT’S OK… FOR THE MOST PART.[/h1] The low-poly graphics grant it that dose of PS1 nostalgia which would’ve been enough to sway your judgement, but the list of locations you’re to frequent; however little the actual resemblances give it that extra kick of reminiscence towards the named survival horror games regardless! The vacant city streets are grand and disorderly, their presence only extending onto the areas you’re to frequent. Whether it be a derelict apartment building where hope goes to inhabit before committing suicide, a police station that’s seen better days just longing for crime, a hospital so desperate for patients it will inflict- so on and so forth. I appreciated and adored the sound design more than anything it had to offer visually… It complemented the loneliness and deathly silent atmosphere by having you walk-run with either nothing but the noises you make or the snarls of zombies. RE/SH-ish music only materializes out of thin air in safe rooms (if even then), boss encounters, jumpscares, and when Alfred literally whips out his instrument to strum away and sing a tune~ https://steamoss.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2984465756 [h1]:) A NIGHTMARE… RE-CREATED!? Z FOR YOURSELF![/h1] The plot is largely exempt of any profound influences and probably the most original out of everything! That said, the searching for family plot line gave me throwbacks to [b]RE2[/b] & [b]SH (1999)[/b]; the looking for a safe haven- [b]RE Afterlife[/b]. The minutely open-world design of a city in ruins recalled specific instances of [b]SH Origins[/b], [b]The Last of Us[/b], and [b]I Am Legend[/b]. Seems like a lot of watered-down caricatures, but they didn’t come off as such. It appeared to genuinely attempt (emphasis on this) to tell a heartfelt story that could rival even [b]The Walking Dead[/b] only more close-knit and small-scale~ [h1][u][-] CONS;[/u][/h1] [h1]:( MORE LIKE, THE DEAD AREN’T ALL DEAD!?[/h1] While I’m most thankful the narrative isn’t as heavily plagiarized as their previous entry[url=https://steamoss.com/id/DeadeGuard98/recommended/2363930/] Evil Is Back[/url], which by the way they’ve gotten away with, this time they’ve reached a new low… What’d they do? Well, they copied RE & SH in a “style over substance” manner and once more have to lean on nostalgia for crutches! This particular endeavor grossly reminded me of[url=https://steamoss.com/id/DeadeGuard98/recommended/1978010/] Delivery Man (DM)[/url], which was yet another game averse to the word “new” and inserted only what they themselves thought were the most telling elements of what made a RE title! This naturally led to the existence of previously context-laden puzzles which shouldn’t otherwise belong here for they defy all logic. With the only explanation being, well, other than the fact that the OGs had them back then; ergo their inclusion is more than justified. Despite DM doing it a tinge better, both were outright starved of any worthwhile personality or memorable characters… serving solely as placeholder “remember that more interesting individual in RE/SH? Yeah, good times”. [h1]:( ON THE MAP ALRIGHT- FOR DIFFERENT INFERIOR REASONS.[/h1] I was feeling the locations initially, but variety did JAKE all in taking away from the reality that they were subpar in their dressing and layout. I thought the apartment was the biggest offender with rooms that differed little to none from each other. But really, every single area was ridiculously spacious and identical in their environmental storytelling thanks to repeating props… Almost as if to exclaim “forget interesting set pieces, we just need places to pad the runtime” which becomes gospel in the next cons~ [h1]:( NOT ON THE RIGHT… BACKTRACK![/h1] You would think “RE-esque title” and “fun” are synonymous, well think again; the latter is aggressively as well as aggravatingly replaced by long bouts of backtracking. Sheer amount of plot-bending done to allow for key items to be found in places that, in a sane world, would have zero chances of being associated! This key with no discernible markers whatsoever must open that locked door from halfway across the city…! DUH!! The bullet sponge bosses painfully drain the fun out of the very sad amount there already was. To add insult to injury? 2/3 of bosses could’ve been easily bypassed by simply ignoring them had you been permitted to use your brain. It’s only cause the game forces you to deal with them by making that completely unobstructed gap and the door that wasn’t locked suddenly inaccessible. Lastly, the degree of inventory stupidity going on whereby picking up similar items don’t automatically pool them together and so you have to slow travel to safe rooms to dump your crap. It’s just a whole thing to artificially pad the runtime in terms of gameplay~ https://steamoss.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2984468786 [h1]:( CLEAN UP YOUR ACT. PRETTY PLEASE!?[/h1] Put simply, Twitch streamers rarely make for good voice actors. There, said it! At least pick the semi-decent ones much like[url=https://steamoss.com/id/DeadeGuard98/recommended/2026870/] Night at the Gates of Hell[/url] did. If I wanted disinterested & soulless reads that border on hilarity, I would just view an adult film~ [h1]BUGS:[/h1] x Entering a new area, the camera does this thing where it flies towards the player- x 2 of 3 bosses can be exploited through environmental means. x Alfred clips with certain objects x Camera stutters when touching the environment x Textures keep changing place… x Auto-aim disabled when an object gets in your way. [h1]NITPICKS:[/h1] ~ Gun reloads automatically…! ~ Map opacity is terrible. ~ “Files” menu has more slots than there are notes! Misleading. ~ Short black screens after QTEs are jarringly intrusive. [h1]"DON’T MEAN IT’S EXCUSED FROM A GOOD OLD-FASHIONED RIBBON!!?"[/h1] [u]Last Words?[/u] Scarily basic survival horror that bares too much of its muses… Save for a few scraps of novelty & sincerity; winds up feeling derivative, ill thought out, and rushed. “Affordable” came at a price~ [h1]5 / 10[/h1]