Alisa is a classic survival horror, with a fixed camera and a pixelated appearance that tries to make us feel like we’re in the 90s and it succeeds.
Alicia is a title created by Casper Croes. More than an independent studio, it is a single man who, helped by his wife, tries to create games with his own identity. Not only does he create them, but he also publishes them himself. Alisa is her second title after Corrupted Phoenix. If you go to their Twitter you can see their projects, where Alisa, a game released on PC in 2021, also has a version for Commodore 64. An ode to classic machines and video game classics from the 90s.
Now good old Casper has ventured to launch his game in Xbox and other platforms console current. So this Alisa that I wanted so much fell into my hands. For starters, it’s a survival horror that takes inspiration from the classics of the 90s. Those games with fixed camera angles and the first 3D graphics. In addition, it is an entirely pixelated title, stripped down in many respects, without physics, but with its retro essence and this fixed camera it evokes a golden age of video games.
Alisa has a very personal design and visual section. It feels like some sort of animated film, but with a twist. So, all this together in one package brings to our retina past successes such as the first Alone in the dark There is 32 years old.
With this premise Casper Croes No offers one history simple but effective. We play Alisa, an elite royal agent whose mission is to capture a thief. He has stolen important plans and our mission is to find them. But in our pursuit of the criminal, we will end up being kidnapped by horrible creatures and locked in a very strange mansion. Here begins a story full of dangers and shocks that will transport us into a world of puzzles, labyrinths, closed doors and enemies full of charm. And the charm lies in the fact that everything in this mansion is closely related to the dolls. We could very well call it dolls house
And all the enemies we encounter throughout the adventure are dolls. In real size and with more or less skills, all will be a headache. With a hint of 1920s porcelain-faced dolls, there are few things scarier. Even our guide in the house, a puppet, is linked to the world of rags.
If we focus on Alisa Gameplay offers a journey into the past to relive the sensations of the first survival horror. With inventory and resource management that meets expectations, the game surprises you. We can choose several types of movement for Alisa, the modern one that allows you move in 3D environments by playing with the stick. Or the classic where the lever up always moves the character forward, as if we were playing on PC with the cursors.
This way retro I can already tell you that the game is horrible, and along with the pointer, it’s one of the most frustrating things about Alisa. It’s true that targeting can be set to automatic, but this will reduce the rewards. On top of that, the game continually crashed when I accessed the trading area and saved. Involving over and over again having to redo what was played. Always their simple but the functional puzzles and mystery surrounding the story were motivating enough to keep playing.
CONCLUSION
Alicia This is a title that, generally, only older players will enjoy as they attempt to relive memories of the past. It faithfully approximates what we experienced at the time, spending hours on the first survival horror on our old x486 or our first Pentium.
However, the overabundance of bugs and crashes that I experienced tarnish this adventure somewhat. Sometimes surviving the continuous “blocks” and having to start again has been quite an odyssey. However, the game is good and it only fuels my desire for a fixed-camera survival horror experience with the benefits of modern hardware.
Alisa – A Survival Horror Adventure
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Benefits
- Beautiful story
- Classic and current control options
- Quite a memory
The inconvenients
- The continuing bugs
- The aiming system is horrible
- It is neither translated nor dubbed.
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