Sure thing! Here it goes:
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So, okay, I was NOT expecting this, but FMV games are sneaking back into our lives, like that weird band you only halfway liked in high school but now can’t stop listening to. Anyway, they’re like… those “choose-your-own-adventure” books but with actors doing the scenes. Kinda cool, kinda messy. There’s this game, The Shapeshifting Detective, right? Real mystery vibes, actors doing their thing, but with story walls. Then there’s stuff like Not for Broadcast — way more interactive and just hilarious.
Now, hold on… there’s Dead Reset from Dark Rift Horror, and oh boy, I got a peek. It’s like a horror mystery deal, narrative stuff galore. You’re with Cole Mason, this surgeon dude. First thing, bam! — he wakes up on a space station floor. I know, right? Feels like an Alien movie. A guard yanks him up (rude!), takes him to this table where a patient’s got some freaky growth. So you, as Cole, face a gun and they’re yelling to operate. Like, do you just… grab the gun? Run? I made Cole operate — talk about a nightmare. Alien bursts out, chaos everywhere. Creepy! So, twist, turns out it’s a time loop — Cole wakes up again, same mess, same guard.
Chapter one, folks! Eight loops and I only saw the first — lots of dead ends. Tried shooting a gun? Didn’t go well. Boom, Cole loses an arm. Finally, moved past the alien chaos, and dang, what’s next? Guess we’ll find out.
I kinda dig how the actors are all into it. They’re good, though a bit iffy in the tense bits? Conversations felt weirdly personal — okay, they’re stuck in this drama, but still. Must be those game time limits. Anyway, horror flicks do the same trick, right? Get close or get wrecked. Now, speaking of wrecked — the alien effects… very bloody. Gore galore, like entrails and whatnot. But thankfully, the alien’s not too silly-looking; they knew not to zoom in too much. Guns flash on screen like some old arcade game — anyone remember Area 51? Yeah, like that. But, you know, not tacky, just surprisingly fun.
Dead Reset was a wild ride. Just enough sneak peek to get me hooked, like, what’s Cole gonna do next? Time loop mysteries and that creepy alien under the skin — I’m waiting for more. It’s blasting onto the Nintendo Switch eShop on September 11th, so get ready for some chaos!
