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Amid Evil. Ancient evil. Game is very cool and so artistic design kind. Everything is with style. With spirit of how they can look modern way games from first PlayStation. If these kind of games ever exist. And PlayStation will be upgraded. And better say - retro shooter. With view from the eyes. Or how today everyone says it - boomer shooter. By the way, I do not know what means word boomer here.

Game is visually pixelated and beautiful. Beautiful lighting. And artistic work. About surreal world. Something like fantasy. Dark fantasy. It is has happened with world something. Game is like Doom or Quake or Turok. But its own way.

Its own game mechanics. Battles are here like one on one. With using of abilities. Enemies are not about, are they clever or not, but they are rather strong. And, they are doing something their own way. It is hard to say, that they are stupid zombies. No, they have their own behavior. Someone is big and strong. Someone is small and fast.

But, most cool thing, it is style and graphics and pixels. And atmosphere of this strange world. I am not about storyline here yet. But, there is a storyline here. And all the game we are shown some strange world. World of abandoned moon. Some evil or aliens like demons something like intrude here a long time ago. So, a surreal world with visual picture form. Some moon. Strange. And something is wrong here.

Everything is so strange. Strange and unusual world. Of lost moon. levels. True kind of art. Beautiful. Architecture is different. With different colors. Something like Greek or medieval style.  Its own architecture. So big buildings. Passages. Small and big. Game is not set limits. And there are open space locations. Big labyrinths. And there are narrow passages. There are place you run with water. Everything is so spectacular. Different material and surface. Different colors for locations. Blue color is so cold. Or red is so hot. This is the way, I remember this game. Some adventure to some fantasy. Id like to say it is so colorful. And, sometimes, it is cold fantasy. Of a lost world.

Second game I want to tell about it is Death in Water. It is idea - shooters are spectacular. So here we are underwater. As diver. And before our eyes it is beautiful world. Which is underwater. And there is emptiness here. It is like arena. But it looks atmosphere and beautiful.

We have a harpoon in hands. And everything is so underwater here. Special effects. You can go deeper, and reach sand and hide after stone. But, well, it does not help here. Or get higher. Such maneuver. And at the top it is sun and light. And to the lower - it is darker. I want to mark this game for style. There is style here.

And it plays rather scary. Something like realistic. So, sharks are swimming here. One, two, three. It depends. So, idea is - waves with enemies here. And all the map - it is small piece of water. Underwater. And you are as a diver. With harpoon. You are hunting with sharks. This is idea. But thing is, sharks are rather real, should to be. And player has few chances. And, it is written in the web about this point. That yes. Graphics is cool. Style. Even more - elements with realistic things. Everything is cool. But, you cannot play it long. Sharks are, easy to see, much stronger. So about certain gameplay it is so so scary thing. But as a graphics and atmosphere and realistic points - everything is cool. So, I do not played it a lot. But I like this game! Interesting game. Good implementation, not bad. More about style such a theme. And this point is done very good here.

Sharks are making circles. They are getting closer. You are trying to shake in water. Try go deeper. Or try get closer to surface. But, you are, of course, not a fish. You cannot move fast. And it is, sometimes, dark in water. And, so, as a result - mouth from the dark and underwater you see. And thats all. Game over. As a horror movie. For idea and realization it is five score.

So, these are two atmosphere kind games, unusual shooters. So, I mark them. They have interesting visual. And they are good about atmosphere.

Playing little games. From time to time i like to play videogames. And write about it. Dima Link is making retro videogames, apps, a little of music, write stories, and some retro more.