After playing this game all night, my palms never stopped sweating😅. Let me introduce myself first. Brother, I am thirty-five this year. I have been playing on red and white consoles and arcades all the way. There were no smartphones at that time. I could hide under the bed with a GB and use a flashlight, and I felt like a brave man saving the world. Seeing the children nowadays playing Genshin Impact and eating chicken at every turn, I really want to tell them that the escape game you are playing now was a game that was broken twenty years ago, but this sentence is actually only half correct.
This game called "Stay Alive" reminds me of the first time I played "Resident Evil 1". It was the original PS1 that even the joystick operation was so awkward. How could he be so considerate at that time? The picture was gray, the bullets were very few, and the herbs had to be eaten sparingly. But don't tell me, it is precisely this kind of temperament that requires you to dig and dig at everything that is called survival horror. What about new similar games now? Either it's random killings, with zombies cutting off one crop after another like leeks, or it's krypton gold drawing cards to change skins. The world after the apocalypse will be more glamorous than our current gym. There's no such thing as a desperate situation, right?
This "Stay Alive" has a bit of that flavor. You start with a pair of hands, and the empty bottles and rags on the roadside are treasures. Really, I was ignorant at first. When I saw zombies, I wanted to fight. I felt so courageous, and then there was nothing more... I starved to death on the hospital bed, not even the dregs were left. Later, I learned a lesson. When I see a zombie, I first weigh the guy in the backpack. If I can avoid it, I will never pretend to be too big. The feeling was the same as when I heard noise on the radio while playing "Silent Hill". My breathing slowed down, and I had only one thought in my mind: Don't find me, please don't find me.
The gameplay of searching houses and taking out trash is, to put it bluntly, a variation of the old biochemical game, except that the route of finding the brass key to open the door is changed to evacuating the entire community. The sense of age is still there when you change your outfit. Whether there are enough grids in the backpack is always the number one philosophical question. It is exactly the same as the choice of whether to pack bullets or herbs in the six grids back then. This kind of hard-core experience of "a porridge and a meal is a hard-earned thought" is really not understood by today's fast food mobile games.
But you're saying it's completely an old-fashioned way of thinking? That's not it either. You look at the half door marked on the map and can't open it, but you know in your heart that there may be a generator or a bottle of drinking water hidden behind it. This feeling of pulling you to move forward even though you know there is danger is much better than the pure guessing puzzles of the past. And after you die once or twice, you will learn experience. For example, black people have to hide every day, because the zombies at night are so damn fierce. This game is one of those mobile games that uses your corpse to teach you how to play.
You young people always feel that you have become numb after playing too many game consoles, and you can't find that feeling of pounding heart. Then try this, it doesn't cost you money, it doesn't force you to have any trouble, it allows you to relive the joy and sourness of being chased three streets by a tyrant quietly on the screen of your mobile phone. Don't blame me for not reminding you. If you hear a dog barking outside the window one day and it scares you, don't come to me to refund your money. This game only costs 0 yuan, but it can't cure your neurasthenia. 😂
Finally, let me say it seriously, the developer Beijing Ice Horse understands veteran players and has packed all the fun and torturous things into this pixel art style. I think back then we paid dozens of dollars for cassette tapes to learn what "living" meant, but now we can get it for free with just one click. You young people, it's really a good time to catch up. Go ahead and play, be content with being an old dog who lives an ignoble life, that's better than anything else. 🏃♂️