Night Trap: 25th Anniversary Edition
An expanded game of Night Trap
You'll get caught in the night - NIGHT TRAP! Originally developed by Digital Pictures in 1987 and released in 1992, Night Trap has been completely rebuilt, bringing it to a level of video quality never before seen. Night Trap tells the story of five teenage girls spending the weekend at the Martin home. As a member of the Special Control Attack Team, your job is to monitor the home and protect the girls using an intricate system of cameras and traps as it is being invaded by vampires. Night Trap - 25th Anniversary Edition also includes new features such as deleted scenes, two documentaries, the all-new Theater that allows you to watch all story-related videos uninterrupted, a new mode called Survivor that will test your skills at trapping intruders and behind the scenes production images. For the first time ever, the unreleased prototype Scene Of The Crime will be fully playable and included with Night Trap - 25th Anniversary Edition.
Released on
Genres
Reviews View More
That is, in theory. As Scott the Woz pointed out, you can't really enjoy that aspect of the game because you're too busy trying to catch the vampires so you don't lose.
This game ain't great, but I have a lot of respect for it and the ideas presented.
I wanted to play this with a friend who helped me secure a hard copy when I was running a little low on dough, and I was finally able to. The both of us had a mostly good time besides my frustration getting the hang of how the game works. Though there is an included manual, both that and the initial menus do a poor job of onboarding the player, making the initial experience a frustrating trial-and-error effort until you understand the three or so functions you need to repeat to see the ending.
Onboarding issues aside, Night Trap serves its purpose of being a glorified party gag best suited for groups of intoxicated friends (or at least ones that appreciate silly games). Without multiple eyes watching the cameras (if you're using the modern convenience mode) or a friend scanning a walkthrough next to you, the repetitious gameplay and cruel tricks the game tries to pull would sour fast. I'm glad I had my first experience with a "backseat gamer" in the share play chat.
The game, itself is whatever 25 years later, but the packaging of said product is arguably more important when "preserving and enhancing" the experience. Night Trap's 25th Anniversary release has enough goodies to suffice, with several interviews, behind-the-scenes photos/promos, and a 45-minute "movie" version of the game you can watch; it's not a lot, but it's enough to justify buying a modern port of a SEGA CD game.
Lastly: no, the 4K transfer for the PS5 version is not worth it. I don't know much about the equipment used to shoot/preserve the master used for the updated edition, but most of the scenes aren't clean and upscale enough to make any reasonable difference if I were to buy the PS4, Switch, or PC versions of Night Trap.
O jogo é um FMV, ou Full Motion Video, um estilo de jogos que se utilizam de videos pré-gravados que são iniciados em determinadas ordens de acordo com os comandos do jogador, dando a ilusão de controlar um filme.
Pensando como um jogo de mais de 30 anos atrás, ele é bem divertido, interessante e bastante funcional. Seu objetivo é utilizar as cameras de segurança de uma casa para ativar armadilhas e proteger as protagonistas dos invasores.
A gameplay é simples, você troca as cameras e utiliza de um botão para ativar as armadilhas. As atuações são bem cara de um Filme B dos anos 80, porém não são ruins a ponto de estragar a experiência do jogador como normalmente eram as atuações de jogos dos anos 80/90.
É um jogo divertido de se jogar e uma ótima pedida para quem curte jogos retro.