I'm sure this was mindblowing in 1993 and I am not being sarcastic or insincere about that
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...2021-03-14 23:46:48.511812+00
No, get it. I can imagine this being unreal and like nothing else playing it on release. Don't know enough about that era of gaming to know for sure, but this seems like it was basically the first proper 3D action-adventure game?
I found it a hard slog nowadays though.
...2023-02-14 02:09:21.696543+00
The Terminator on DOS is technically the first, but has aged far worse than this if you can believe it. This was a giant leap forward from that and less than two years later.
It is crazy just how Resident Evil this is. It has basically every element in place. And then Mikami, for so long, was just like, "nah it was never on my mind when making RE." LOL
the OP also claims that "Capcom had an agreement with Infogrames that was preventing Mikami to mention the french game", but I don't think it's from the article linked (my French is way too bad to read the whole thing, though)
I can read French, your interpretation seems to be correct. I don't doubt the influence now.
As far as I know, an NDA can't stop someone from mentioning an influence even in more extreme cases where one side is alleging that a person/group "stole" the idea. Croc: Legend of the Gobbos/Super Mario 64[スーパーマリオ64] situation comes to mind, developers at Argonaut have always maintained their 3D engine was an inspiration for M64 and they even allege that Shigeru acknowledged this in private. This seems like a far more litigious situation and yet they haven't been stopped from spreading this allegedly true story around. This seems like Shinji either evading owning up to the influence or him saying this in a French interview to appease a French audience now that he has nothing to lose.
Super impressive for its time, though a little dated now. Still worth playing for its historical value though don't feel bad if you have to pull up a walkthrough.
This is to Resident Evil what Mother 1 is to the Earthbound series (franchise different aside). While in contemporany eyes the game may be a slug, iit set a lo of important precedents to its direct and spiritual successors. There just isnt any other game like this released in the same era
The CD version is actually really good. The voice acting makes the atmosphere way more asphyxiating and real.
The only problem for me is that there are several dead ends that were never fixed, and you may have to start the game all over again just because of the developers' shortsightedness.
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"He finally said that without Alone in the Dark, Resident Evil would have been a First Person Shooter in full 3D"
the OP also claims that "Capcom had an agreement with Infogrames that was preventing Mikami to mention the french game", but I don't think it's from the article linked (my French is way too bad to read the whole thing, though)
As far as I know, an NDA can't stop someone from mentioning an influence even in more extreme cases where one side is alleging that a person/group "stole" the idea. Croc: Legend of the Gobbos/Super Mario 64 [スーパーマリオ64] situation comes to mind, developers at Argonaut have always maintained their 3D engine was an inspiration for M64 and they even allege that Shigeru acknowledged this in private. This seems like a far more litigious situation and yet they haven't been stopped from spreading this allegedly true story around. This seems like Shinji either evading owning up to the influence or him saying this in a French interview to appease a French audience now that he has nothing to lose.
The only problem for me is that there are several dead ends that were never fixed, and you may have to start the game all over again just because of the developers' shortsightedness.