Fear Effect

I never thought i would see this game here in steam. My frist action game in ps1.

Got soft locked in the red against two or three enemies multiple times and got fed up. This game likes to take away your weapons at save points and pit you against multiple enemies with machine guns, while only having a knife. I get that it's an old game and unfair difficulty is part of it's charm. Moreover, this is just a plain emulation job without any interference to it's mechanics and that's fine. For these reasons exactly, the game needs the ability to enable cheats. Cheats that existed in the original PS1 version but for some stupid reason the developers chose to remove from this version because they thought that rewind and manual saves would be enough. They are not. Save yourselves from this frustrating experience.

Classic survival horror revived and works great on the Deck too.

My days of playing Fear Effect began on the PS1 in 2000. I learned about the game from PSM and was intrigued with how the graphics featured dynamic backgrounds that really moved, which at the time was ground breaking to me. I had never seen anything like it. I rented the game and was able to beat it in a few days. I don't remember how I was able to successfully complete it before. I must've had a guide book or looked up the puzzle solutions on Gamefaqs because there's no way I would've been able to solve them on my own. Some of them were mind boggingly hard. WhenI finally got a chance to replay this game 26 years later because I wanted to relive my teenage nostalgia, the puzzles still stump me, and I had to resort to watching Youtube videos which is a huge godsend, otherwise I would've given up. I didn't find enjoyment in finishing the puzzles, I merely saw them as obstacles and all I wanted to do was to shoot things. There were a few occasions when I ran out of ammo and I had to either knife them as I'm getting shot at and dying and reloading my save over until getting past it which was profoundly annoying. Dodging enemy attacks by simply rolling was quite comical. The storyline didn't interest me much and I wasn't emotionally invested in any of the characters, although I did get some mild amusement from certain parts like playing as Hana while she's wearing a bath towel and then stripping her naked in front of an enemy as a distraction measure, or dressing up as a prostitute as a disguise to avoid gunfights. Despite some of my gripes, this game still charms me, probably because of how it brings me back to my childhood days on gaming on the PS1.

A charming but utterly frustrating experience, marred by clunky controls and unresponsive inputs. If your nostalgia beckons you to replay this on Steam, know that you're essentially getting a direct port, compressed FMV cutscenes, warts and all, of the Playstation original. However, you are given the mercy of a Quick Save and Rewind function that'll surely stop you from forfeiting before the game hooks you in with its unique blend of survival horror, cyberpunk and adventure gameplay. Fear Effect is an underrated gem that has been seemingly been lost to time and deserves a proper remaster. Updated controls and HD versions of the original character models, FMV backgrounds and cutscenes would make this immediately more accessible to a new generation to rediscover.

Really impressive game from the PS1 era

If you want to play Fear Effect on Steam in 2025, this will get the job done. It's not a fancy remaster, it's not a remake. It's a port with quicksaving and rewinding and widescreen. Controls are still ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up, enemies are still BS.

Better left in the past, quite unenjoyable

Fear Effect (2000) - Sony PlayStation One exclusive. Well, used to be (:

Fear Effect is one of those cult classic PS1 titles that got released around the time Resident Evil came out as its fixed camera angle gameplay was something a lot of developers wanted to capitilize on and few managed to stand out like Fear Effect without being labeled as "Resident Evil Clone", while I would love sit here and admire this game for this entire review I have to take into account that this is an emulation YES not a part but an emulation [h3]What this version Brings to the table[/h3] Since its an emulation there is sadly no upscaled models or anything like that, it pretty much runs the game like an emulator and gives you the ability to use Widescreen, CRT filters, save states and rewind which are all pretty handy though I personally only used widescreen and played the game as it intended these options are great for players to have but feels low key lazy since I can do this by setting up a regular emulator myself [h3]The Game Itself[/h3] Fear Effect is a cult classic action horror title that focuses on puzzle solving and occasionally killing bunch of enemies, its uniquness comes from 3 things, an all anti hero cast, game only healing you at certain points and being one of the rare fixed camera titles where enemies are actually ranged Puzzles are fun and well thought out and combat...functinoal but very easy to exploit lets just say that all in all making a really fun experience with my two complaints being combat is bit too easy to exploit at times and the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ PS1 jank that requires you to play the game on a certain diffuculty to get its best ending honestly one of the best things that is left behind as games evolved Overall If this was a port or a remaster I would say get it at full price but its not so If you plan to play Fear Effect in its most accessible version in this day and age then I say wait for a sale as this is straight up an emulation