A new Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut early comparison video was shared online, highlighting the differences between the PC and PlayStation 5 releases.
20.02.2024 - 14:35 / thesixthaxis.com
I don’t think Sigmund Freud was much of a gamer but if he were, Alisa would probably be his favourite game. Freud’s seminal discussion of the Uncanny remains one of the clearest accounts of what makes certain things incredibly creepy to us – and chief amongst his examples is the animated doll. Alisa takes this creepiness and puts it centre stage, taking an intricate love letter to the origins of survival horror and replacing the zombies with dolls. It makes for a timely and appropriate change of focus.
The opening cutscene to Alisa: Developer’s Cut (as the console version is named) sets the scene for the creepiness to follow as it features a slowed down view of a bullet destroying the head mechanism of a doll. This serves to establish both the similarities and differences to the usual zombie enemies of the genre and is a wonderfully stylish – and stylised – opening. Once past this the start game screen appears. There are a few options available in terms of controls and visuals, the former of which I’ll go into more detail about later, but the main decision to make is whether to start with auto-aim or not. While having this enabled is an initial benefit it limits the currency that enemies drop so I’d advise against it. The game has an icon by your ammo count that changes when you are aiming at an enemy so I’d recommend getting familiar with that instead.
Graphically, Alisa absolutely nails the early PS1 jagged aesthetic. This also applies to the animation as the enemies all boast creepy, uncanny movement that really gets to you. The pre-rendered backgrounds are pure original Resident Evil – the main mansion is almost overly familiar to be honest – and there’s a surprising range of locations to explore. Music is also fabulously unsettling, not least in a circus area that absolutely sent my coulrophobia (fancy name for fear of clowns) into overdrive. Voice acting is another matter, though, as this is spectacularly awful. The credits show that most of the characters are voiced by the main developer and his associates rather than professional actors and this really shows. Having said that, the awful voice acting is clearly both a cost issue and a deliberate nod to the genre’s origins. At one point Alisa escapes a room where the walls are closing in and exclaims ‘I was almost a sandwich’ for example.
Alisa controls like a classic Resident Evil with tank controls although ‘modern’ ones are available in the options menu. The fixed cameras are far better suited to the former system but I found the PS5 version frustrating here as it doesn’t allow you to set the movement to the D-Pad at all. I really struggle to use analogue sticks for tank controls so I actually moved to the PC version for my main playthrough
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