Viviette

Viviette tries to go gonzo with the jump scares and frenetic furnishings rather than showing a crumb of constraint, something that would have gone a long way to keeping the tension from the first 45 minutes or so alive through its conclusion.

Viviette is excellent at providing something different that takes the best elements of many different games to craft something fairly unique. Despite some minor gripes, it’s a brilliant single-player experience.

Vivette does quite a good job at drawing the player's attention towards exploring its world, something to which the game's marvelous art style and visual environment and its plot are certainly no strangers. The game does a less successful job when it comes to its difficulty level, which is rather inconsistent, too much repetitiveness and a short lifespan.

Viviette is not a game that invents the wheel, but its more than correct execution in all its aspects makes it a very important alternative for those thirsty for more traditional survival horror, all at a reduced price.

All considered it's a horror title that will certainly find its place in the hearts of fans of this sub-genre.

Viviette is a breath of fresh air to the Indies catalog of Nintendo Switch. A very funny proposal that knows how to mix exploration and puzzles in an outstanding way and that has a suffocating atmosphere at the height of the great horror games of this generation that manages to put fear into our bodies at times.

Apart from the wonderful 16-bit audio-visuals, Viviette turns out to be nothing more than a repetitive search for key-item after key-item, with a little bit of puzzle-solving thrown in, next to a simple horror tale that won't really creep you out that much.

Step through Vivette’s doors, by all means, but be prepared for an uneven stay.

If you’re down for a challenge and some frustrations, and enjoy the thought of turning out the lights and enjoying some creepiness, it’s not a bad experience. You may find the puzzles to be intriguing but also don’t be surprised if you find yourself needing to hit a walkthrough to figure something out, though that’s not unusual for adventure titles in general I suppose. I just wish its use of horror and suspense lived up to its initial promise, rather than just being something you need to deal with in roughly the same way throughout.

If you want a game to really push you to the absolute limits of memorizing a whole area to identify every hidden clue, then Viviette may be the game for you. Otherwise, it’s best to look elsewhere, since you’ll probably spend more time looking up solutions online than actually figuring them out yourself.