Hellnight

Hellnight

Released1998
Hellnight (Dark Messiah in Japan) is a survival horror game at heart, although it has no combat gameplay. Controlling the nameless hero, the player must travel through the underground and protect Naomi. There is only one monster in the whole game, the "creature" itself, which is invulnerable and cannot be killed. Instead players are constantly on the run from it, making sure it does not catch them. The game is divided into large maze-like levels, each one usually populated by the creature who keeps pursuing the player (although he does change form after each level). At certain points there will be companions who can attack the monster and temporarily stun him. There are also people to talk to in the underground world, items to pick up, and puzzles to solve.
64Wit Score

Details

DeveloperDennou Eizo Seisakusho
PublisherKonami, Atlus
ReleasedJune 11, 1998
StatusReleased
GenresPuzzleAdventure
ThemesHorrorSurvivalStealth
PlatformsPlayStation PlayStation
ModesSingle player

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Community Score
Mixed Reception64/100

About This Game

A catastrophic subway accident deep beneath future Tokyo's labyrinthine underground tunnels unleashes something that was never meant to escape containment. What emerges is a symbiotic organism capable of consuming human beings whole—an entity that a secretive cult called Dark Messiah had been studying in the subterranean darkness for years. A lone young man and a frightened schoolgirl named Naomi Sugiura survive the initial carnage and must navigate the warren of tunnels, sewers, and abandoned stations below the city while the creature hunts them both.