Dark Passions
Viviette, by DYA Games, takes work to create. Viviette gets inspiration from so many places. The creators always surprise me. It is two Spanish brothers, in this case, Alberto and Dani. Follow their Twitter and other sites. You see their passion for all things games and pixel art.
That is how you get the game you want. In this case, Nintendo Switch and DYA Games bring a title that shrinks a massive horror, and puzzle, experience into a sweet 16-bit shell. However, is this game for you?
In The Mire
You play Jules. Jules explores the island, with his sister, Felice, and other friends. You all plan to leave the island, and home to Neuville’s Mansion, by boat. Felice, and friends, goes missing.
You wake up at night. Jules finds himself on the dark island, with an inconsistent, alchemical, lamp, in search of them. Viviette is a survival horror game, from start to finish.
It is just thinking on your feet. You move your character with the cross pad or left the analog stick. Jules interacts with the environment and characters with the A Button.
Hold the B Button and the cross pad, or left analog stick, to make Jules run. The X Button accesses your items inventory in the game. The scheme for this game is simple. The sound design makes it unbearable.
Ear Chills
This game starts as a mystery. You find yourself in the hospital, during the day. A police officer asks you what happened at Neuville’s Mansion, and the island. You reflect on the murky past events.
Jules remembers he searches for his friends in the day. You go unconscious after a minor incident. The rest of the game is at night. The trees on the island shift, and crawl.
There are so many dark spaces and shadowy movements throughout this title once the night falls. Every inch of Neuville’s Mansion, inside and out, has vivid sound and motion.
This reverberates in the speakers of both the Nintendo Switch, in portable mode, and on television. This is what makes this experience work best.
You hear Jules as he runs, pants, wheezes, and overexerts himself. As you walk through Neuville’s Mansion, you can hear footsteps that follow you. Dead animals and carcasses draw loud and active flies. The atmosphere of this game amazes. Viviette just has to be the right game for the moment.
Cold, Specific Inspiration
The reality is Viviette is in the right genre to scare you. Viviette was going to be my 16-bit Capcom’s Resident Evil. Viviette just has no action but works off reaction.
It hovers close to Climax Studios, and Konami Digital Entertainment’s Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, for Nintendo Wii.
Viviette resembles Human Entertainment’s Clock Tower series. The game makes you work to solve puzzles under duress.
Backtrack and discover that room with just the right clue for another room you are in, Viviette has the goods. Do you want to avoid the monsters and solve their mystery?
Viviette has it. However, if you want to handle a gun with limited, or unlimited, ammo for those monsters, Viviette does not provide.
Conclusion
Viviette is an experience I would want on my Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It has the scares. This game makes you jump. Neuville’s Mansion and the island are just alive.
The puzzles are hard, but work together and toward an enjoyable conclusion.
Viviette is just not an action piece. This does not take away from the experience but makes you shift focus quickly. Otherwise, you just die, often.
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