The Game:

A survival horror game from Russia starring Katrine, who must uncover a dark conspiracy.

The Quick Look: Running time of 30:50, starring Vinny Caravella and Alex Navarro.

Vinny’s three things to consider about this game:

1. Making games is hard.

2. Learning a second language is hard.

3. This game is $2.

Vinny decides to show off the game in English initially, loading a save before exploring what appears to be some kind of hospital and using the protagonist’s unique animations to dance. He picks up bullets and batteries wherever he finds them lying around on bedside cabinets or next to communal toilets. This is accompanied by poorly-translated commentary from the main character, with voice over. (“Batteries in such a hole? Well, I’ll do find a use for them.”) Vinny puzzles over why the voice actor, who seems to know better, agreed to record such stilted sentences. There are also a couple of graphic novel-style cutscenes with similar language, but in-game documents that are not provided with audio seem to contain better translations. Alex has fun trying to translate these back into somewhat human speech.

Vinny continues in this fashion, exploring corridors and shooting the many resilient night guards in his path, as well as some zombies, until he accidentally finishes the game. He then sets the language to the native Russian and Loads His Last Save. Vinny remarks that the voice actor sounds more confident in this tongue and encourages commenters to offer their own translations.

Alex provided my favorite quote from this video: “Nature’s greatest obstacle: The already-opened door.” (25:50)