''Here Ripley, the last survivor of the Nostromo; end of the transmission '' is the final message with which Ridley Scott wanted to finish off one of the films that would turn the sci-fi film genre. Alien: The Eighth Passenger was a revolution to introduce to the almost laughable `` slasher '' a series of identity details that would put in front of our noses the really scary of outer space: that no one can hear our screams when we are up there. Thus, with a twisted turn of the neck to look at the legacy he inherits from the cinema, Alien: Isolation saw the light in 2014 beginning his adventure with that choppy message from Ripley to call into question one of the most recurrent maxims of the last years; to call into question that prejudice that video games do not have the optimal structure to adapt works of the seventh art.
I speak of an experience that is so well profiled that the most intense moments are those in which the Xenomorph does not even appear on the screen. The feeling that at any moment you can take action with unstoppable forcefulness give rise to a tension that few works get. Especially since, while these are apparently desperate to offer you those cardiac arrests that you are looking for so much in them, Alien: Isolation is a title that relies fully on the dynamics it builds; one in which he does not fear that everything is cooked over low heat, and that it is the most likely interaction between the player and that entity that pursues what causes real terror.
It might seem that expressing that it is most shocking to be able to take a title with high technical virtues anywhere has lost the sense of repeating it. However, Alien: Isolation is one of those cases that do justice to this premise again; to the one in which Nintendo Switch can show much more potential than it appears if well-optimized ports arrive at it. And even more if we think about their portability, since the step forward between that childhood situation in which we hid under the covers to avoid fears towards one in which we can put them under the blankets with us gives rise to a most comforting experience.
However, the version of Alien: Isolation for Nintendo Switch presents some rough edges that would be old known and others more novel because of the portable format offered by the Nintendo hybrid console. Starting with the first, this edition continues to observe that input lag (that temporary delay that exists between pressing a button and seeing an action on the screen) that already appeared in the other versions and, secondly, a series of inconveniences that appear in the portable format that makes everything reflect to a smaller size, which makes some important resources that will be spread across the stage more complicated to spot.
Alien: Isolation is one of those games that overflow tension from the screen. A product that acts as a mirror of the first film; one in which you can enter to visit the wonderland of one of the creations that forged the foundations of science fiction, only here, instead of running into a caterpillar that smokes a pipe or a mad hatter, you will find an oppressive extraterrestrial entity whose language is a smaller and disgusting version of itself.
