BlasterLizardCo
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Blaster Lizard GT is an indie game developer company in Campinas, Brazil. We've worked on Stifled. We are currently working on Canis Lupus and Vereor (previously known as Amnesia: Fear in Hands).
Reviews
Much more content to implement in new stories! Thanks frictional games for bringing on a much better engine for us modders to work on!
Amazing game! Have played it and contributed with my review on www.blasterlizardbrazil.wix.com/blmagazine!!
Keep up the amazing work mate!
Wonderful Game! Good scares, great atmosphere and most of all, incredible puzzles in an story-driven horror game with so much potential to offer, built with passion, it looks like an AAA Quality Game.
Congrats Skyjaz Games for this magnific piece of art. This is one of the few games that I can absolutely say that have putted Unity into work and has explored it's potential. The graphics are okay, it can be better in the next version, but for the first game of Skyjaz, it's already enough.
The plot is another good thing of Pesadelo. The game tells the story of Alex, a disturbed man seeking to escape his nightmare between monsters and haunts. He does not know where he is and even less of how he will manage to escape that place, but the game explains it very good.
What I would change in the game is the enemies spawns. They just appears of nowhere, even it being always behind you, what is a great point to make good jump scares.
Verdict: I just gave 9/10 because I know that you guys can do better with more time of development. I can't wait to play Pesadelo: Regression, to scare the sh** outta me!
Well... What can I say about Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs?
Here is my review (sorry for my English, i´m not in the mood to check for grammar mistakes and everything).
- The background story is definitely better than the first one. The Chinese Room is an expert in making immersive stories, and you can see that by playing Dear Esther, which is an awesome experience.
- All the characters has a very strong position in the game. The children, the main enemy and even Mandus are very well planned and choosed for an Amnesia sequel.
- The graphics (I do not care any little for graphics, but it still being a good point for a game) suffered a huge update! It´s simply beautiful.
- The Chinese Room is learning from it´s mistakes. AAMFP is the second game from this company, and this is an advive for the players that haven´t played A Machine for Pigs yet: do not hear the people that are saying that this game ruined the Amnesia universe, because it´s not. A sequel not been better than the original game doesn´t mean nothing. Frictional Game has a lot of experience with horror games. I thought that this was a great idea, because The Chinese Room had their chance to explain what horror means for them. They have a different perspective of horror and they showed up this.
Different mechanics are necessary for a company to have the full control for a game that do not belong to them. It was necessary and it ended very well. CONSIDERING only this game and the company which have made it, I would give it a 10, but comparing it with TDD, I give it 9. The Chinese Room has surprised me with this awesome game, showing that, in time, they can be as good as Frictional Games.
- No Custom Story support. OF COURSE! Now both games will be alive. If aamfp had cs support, everyone would stop buying tdd. With a cs level editor upgrade, they will need to buy both games to keep playing it, making the game even more alive. A wonderful idea.
BAD POINTS
- few encounters
- easy puzzles
- not very scary.
Really interesting game! Sewers, a misterious monster that you do not know nothing about it. What I liked it most is the scenario and it's the randomness rooms, that are created all in real time.
Well, since it still is in alpha version, I can't say much about it. I wasn't able to complete it yet, but I'm still trying. You really can work more on this, adding a lot more of interesting mechanics like puzzles and maybe some deep voice acting on it (not extremely necessary but it would fit pretty well).
Really thanks for making this game and releasing it for free! Really enjoyable! Hope to see more very soon!
The is no reason to not give a 10 out of 10 to this magnific masterpiece, seriously! The game picks up everything that was missed on the Penumbra series and added it with all the strengh. The atmosphere is memorable and the scares never gets old! The story is really confusing, what breaks a lot of immersion (I have to say that the plot in A Machine for Pigs is really better but it still doesn't have the magic from TDD).
The Water Monster, the Grunt, the Brute, the Shadow, all the monster are very well explained and plus, it's very well detailed and appears very much in the game. The models and assets are very well designed and modelled. The same with the level design a.k.a mapping, that is absolutely incredible! The lengh is what makes me sad, and sometimes, the fact that it's really easy to stop been scary on the game, if you really want, because of the buggy checkpoints mechanic, that allow you to pass everything without seeing the monster if you died in your first try.
I would have changed that. Maybe in Soma they can correct this, that have been done too in Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
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Final Score: 10/10
Positives: Plot / Scares / Enviroment / Models & Assets / Idea / Characters / Monsters + Everything else.
Negatives: Sometimes is hard to understand what's really going on in the story / Checkpoint Mechanic / Duration
Well... At my first time playing this game i confunded the actual gameplay to CG cutscenes! Oh my God! You did a perfect job and you was only using Unity Game Engine!
You guys are the proof that YOU CAN make a good game in a regular Engine! I'm proud of this... This thing that I can´t call a game... It´s too little for this title... This is a huge masterpiece full of horrors that made me scream a ******* lot!
The graphics, the Fx sounds and the ambient are just great and perfect. This really made me felt like I was in a strange dream in the middle of the war, and that I would must wake up if I wanted to survive! I have beated this game in 3 videos, you can see all it here!
Obs: I'm brazilian, but I know a little bit on German.
Hope you guys like it!
