Desolate City: The Bloody Dawn Enhanced Edition

I just finished playign this after "Desolate CIty: the last show" and I'm very surprised in seeing that he bloody Dawn is WAY better than the newest one. Dialogues, easter eggs, riddles, systems and secondary missions are just way, way, better. I hope to see more games like this one. TL;dr: a 2D version of resident evil 2, with interesting characters.

This game is a loveletter to 90s RE-games, ported to a 2D engine. It's a very faithful recreation of the atmosphere with many nostalgic elements like "door transtitions" and the health meter. Also the soundtrack is clearly referencing RE 1/2. It can be rough at times with limited saving posibilites and a battle system works a bit clunky like most of it's kind created in a 2D grid based engine. If you're however looking for your survival horror fix and you really like that retro experience, you should give this one a shot.

I play/review a lot of survival horror games, and this is one of the more peculiar ones. I would absolutely recommend it - at the very least as a strange oddity, although I found it to be pretty fun in the end! That said, it's gotta have some of the weakest level design I have seen in these sorts of games - way way way too much running back and forth. The genre has always thrived on calculated backtracking and level familiarity, but there is a limit and this game really pushes it. Sure, the game is not very attractive, but there's a heart here and that always matters. The story is very derivative of early resident evil, but much more elaborate than a simple resident evil copycat, (sort of like Daymare 1998 now that I think about it), but....it kind of just ends? Painfully inconclusive. Perhaps that gets fixed in the sequel, but I couldn't get very far in that one so who knows. The combat is just weird. Kind of interesting and very unusual, but just...weird. I did eventually adapt to it and find it pretty fun, challenging enough but not so much that it really weighed on the experience (the same can not be said for the games sequel, sadly). Another oddity in this game is the save/…

Really impressed with Desolate City: The Bloody Dawn – Enhanced Edition AKA Resident Evil SNES Edition. The atmosphere is thick and genuinely unsettling — the city feels dead but somehow watching you. The lighting and sound design are especially strong (play with headphones). The Enhanced Edition runs smoothly and looks great, which makes exploring even creepier. It doesn’t rely on cheap jump scares — it builds slow, constant dread instead. If you’re into moody, oppressive survival horror, this is absolutely worth it.

Mad respect for a RPG2k3 game with achievements.

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