Viviette
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Critic Reviews for Viviette
Viviette is excellent at providing something different that takes the best elements of many different games to craft something fairly unique. Despite some minor gripes, it’s a brilliant single-player experience.
Viviette tries to go gonzo with the jump scares and frenetic furnishings rather than showing a crumb of constraint, something that would have gone a long way to keeping the tension from the first 45 minutes or so alive through its conclusion.
Vivette does quite a good job at drawing the player's attention towards exploring its world, something to which the game's marvelous art style and visual environment and its plot are certainly no strangers. The game does a less successful job when it comes to its difficulty level, which is rather inconsistent, too much repetitiveness and a short lifespan.
Review in Portuguese |
Step through Vivette’s doors, by all means, but be prepared for an uneven stay.
If you want a game to really push you to the absolute limits of memorizing a whole area to identify every hidden clue, then Viviette may be the game for you. Otherwise, it’s best to look elsewhere, since you’ll probably spend more time looking up solutions online than actually figuring them out yourself.
Apart from the wonderful 16-bit audio-visuals, Viviette turns out to be nothing more than a repetitive search for key-item after key-item, with a little bit of puzzle-solving thrown in, next to a simple horror tale that won't really creep you out that much.
All considered it's a horror title that will certainly find its place in the hearts of fans of this sub-genre.
