The game is a fully 3D experience at a time where anything outside the arcade didn’t really know how to do that with any fitness, and Doctor Hauzer is absolutely no exception. The rest of the game is item collection, light puzzle solving, very basic platforming puzzles, note reading, and instant death traps, which is a problem due to how long it takes to do simple tasks (save often). This is less Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark and more a horror themed 3D adventure game that has a spooky end zone where something can actually hurt you like a video game enemy. Needless to say, evil is afoot, and you find yourself trapped in a mansion that seems hell bent on killing you, left over messages quickly making it clear all of this isn’t going to end well. The good doctor has one missing, and you aim to find out why and see just what his last major discovery was.
Set in the early 1950s, you play as the young reporter Adams Adler, and you have come to the mansion of famed archaeologist Doctor Hauzer. If you’re expecting an overlooked classic, though, you’re in for disappointment. Oh, and the fact the creator of Silent Hill cites it as a major inspiration for his interest in horror games probably helps. Trip Hawkins’ overpriced but ambitious attempt at a more developer friendly console having a Japan exclusive horror game is already weird enough, but that game also using fully 3D models for the environment and including early cel-shading graphical techniques kind of puts it over the weird barrier into historically significant. It is a fascinating piece of history all the same, if just due to what system it released on and for what region.ĭirected by Kenichiro Hayashi ( Overblood) and programmed by the eventual director of Dragon Quest VIII(not to mention one of the main creators of Professor Layton), Doctor Hauzer is a 3DO Japan exclusive. Before Overblood, there was Doctor Hauzer, a much worse game that’s more forgivable for its sins because it came out in 1994 and tried a lot of things nobody else was doing at the time – arguably for good reason.
That’s understandable, as Overblood is a bonkers experience that sticks in your brain like few things do ( PIPOOOOOOOOOOO!!!). If you’ve heard the name Riverhillsoft, it’s most likely in the context of Overblood, one of the most ridiculous and widely mocked horror games of the classical era.
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