COLINA: Legacy

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Summary

As Alex wakes up in his parents' car and finds himself alone, he looks at the house looming ahead of him, where his grandmother lives. There's a weird feeling about it, as if something lurks there and watches, cast in shadows, smiling in the dark. Alex makes way to the strange house. His parents must be there, no wonder, just waiting for him. The question is, what else also awaits?


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COLINA: Legacy Reviews & Ratings

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Review by PublicNuisance [user]
February 11, 2020

I wanted to like Colina Legacy. There is much about it I do like. Sadly the negatives had more of an impact on me than the positives. YouI wanted to like Colina Legacy. There is much about it I do like. Sadly the negatives had more of an impact on me than the positives. You play as a teenager named Alex who wakes up in his Grandma’s house after falling asleep on the trip there. Something is certainly wrong as when you wake up there is a lot of creepy stuff going on in the house and your parents and grandmother are all gone. You start exploring to find out more. You find glyphs which you can use with your flashlight to solve various puzzles as well as fight enemies. The atmosphere was fantastic, filled with dread and foreboding. The graphics were above average, especially the detail on clothing and the the general world. It did a great job of making the world feel lived in. The story kept me interested and wanting more, it was the main reason I attempted to push onward even though I wasn’t enjoying the game overall. I enjoyed exploring the world finding bits of lore and backstory, I also enjoyed most (not all) of the puzzles. What I didn’t enjoy was a longer list. I hate slide puzzles and there were multiple slide puzzles in the game. I don’t like invincible enemies you have to run and hide from and this game had not only one of those but also one that could one hit kill you. It also had enemies that would reappear after a period of time. It’s kind of funny that I got a Steam achievement for defeating the Blue Fairy because can I really say I defeated them when they keep coming back over and over ? There were also enemies that required two different types of glyphs to defeat which was annoying. Combat felt kind of weird as sometimes I would be shining the light at them but it wouldn’t always seem to register it as hitting them but other times it would. Also, while this isn’t huge, I felt like Alex didn’t really seem to find his situation that odd. If I woke up and there were strange creatures inhabiting my Grandma’s house; bath tubs full of blood; weird notes scattered about; etc I would be pretty freaked out but this kid seemed like this was a normal Tuesday for him. That being said the voice acting was very well done.I played Colina Legacy on Linux. It never crashed on me once and I didn’t notice any glitches. There are 7 settings; 4 settings for FXAA; and a toggle for ambient occlusion. I wish there options for MSAA instead of FXAA. Alt-Tab didn’t work for me. You can skip cutscenes but can’t pause them. There is no manual save option. You save at predetermined locations, a doll that is scattered throughout the game, as well as having the option for an auto save feature that will save the game after certain events. There are 5 save slots you can use when saving the game. The game doesn’t list support for framerates above 60 but it does support it as my FPS was often above that mark. The game uses the Unity engine and takes up 10.277GB of disk space. During play my GPU usage was always 97-100%; my VRAM used was 3.06-4.07GB; my CPU usage was 11-19%; and my system RAM usage was 4.6-5.7GB. My framerate was typically 76-132 although it could drop as low as 58 when in the woods level. I had all settings at the highest except depth and field and FXAA which I turned off.I lasted 3 hour and 36 minutes before I had to bow out and stop playing the game. I just wasn’t enjoying it. I do want to say that I don’t consider Colina Legacy a bad game. It has a lot of good qualities and good production values. I’m sure that some people actually enjoy the parts I hated. I would suggest to play the demo to give you an idea if you’ll like it although I did enjoy the demo and ended up not liking the full game. Overall Colina Legacy just wasn’t for me. I paid $5.69 CAD for it and can say that it would have been a steal of a price for the game if I had enjoyed it more. Even the full current price of the game at $10.99 CAD would be fine for someone who enjoyed it more.My Score: 6.5/10My System:AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 580 8GB Gaming X | Mesa 19.3.3 | Samsung 850 Evo 250GB | Manjaro 18.1.5 | Mate 1.22.3 | Kernel 5.5.2-1-MANJARO

60
Review by PublicNuisance [user]
February 11, 2020

I wanted to like Colina Legacy. There is much about it I do like. Sadly the negatives had more of an impact on me than the positives. YouI wanted to like Colina Legacy. There is much about it I do like. Sadly the negatives had more of an impact on me than the positives. You play as a teenager named Alex who wakes up in his Grandma’s house after falling asleep on the trip there. Something is certainly wrong as when you wake up there is a lot of creepy stuff going on in the house and your parents and grandmother are all gone. You start exploring to find out more. You find glyphs which you can use with your flashlight to solve various puzzles as well as fight enemies. The atmosphere was fantastic, filled with dread and foreboding. The graphics were above average, especially the detail on clothing and the the general world. It did a great job of making the world feel lived in. The story kept me interested and wanting more, it was the main reason I attempted to push onward even though I wasn’t enjoying the game overall. I enjoyed exploring the world finding bits of lore and backstory, I also enjoyed most (not all) of the puzzles. What I didn’t enjoy was a longer list. I hate slide puzzles and there were multiple slide puzzles in the game. I don’t like invincible enemies you have to run and hide from and this game had not only one of those but also one that could one hit kill you. It also had enemies that would reappear after a period of time. It’s kind of funny that I got a Steam achievement for defeating the Blue Fairy because can I really say I defeated them when they keep coming back over and over ? There were also enemies that required two different types of glyphs to defeat which was annoying. Combat felt kind of weird as sometimes I would be shining the light at them but it wouldn’t always seem to register it as hitting them but other times it would. Also, while this isn’t huge, I felt like Alex didn’t really seem to find his situation that odd. If I woke up and there were strange creatures inhabiting my Grandma’s house; bath tubs full of blood; weird notes scattered about; etc I would be pretty freaked out but this kid seemed like this was a normal Tuesday for him. That being said the voice acting was very well done.I played Colina Legacy on Linux. It never crashed on me once and I didn’t notice any glitches. There are 7 settings; 4 settings for FXAA; and a toggle for ambient occlusion. I wish there options for MSAA instead of FXAA. Alt-Tab didn’t work for me. You can skip cutscenes but can’t pause them. There is no manual save option. You save at predetermined locations, a doll that is scattered throughout the game, as well as having the option for an auto save feature that will save the game after certain events. There are 5 save slots you can use when saving the game. The game doesn’t list support for framerates above 60 but it does support it as my FPS was often above that mark. The game uses the Unity engine and takes up 10.277GB of disk space. During play my GPU usage was always 97-100%; my VRAM used was 3.06-4.07GB; my CPU usage was 11-19%; and my system RAM usage was 4.6-5.7GB. My framerate was typically 76-132 although it could drop as low as 58 when in the woods level. I had all settings at the highest except depth and field and FXAA which I turned off.I lasted 3 hour and 36 minutes before I had to bow out and stop playing the game. I just wasn’t enjoying it. I do want to say that I don’t consider Colina Legacy a bad game. It has a lot of good qualities and good production values. I’m sure that some people actually enjoy the parts I hated. I would suggest to play the demo to give you an idea if you’ll like it although I did enjoy the demo and ended up not liking the full game. Overall Colina Legacy just wasn’t for me. I paid $5.69 CAD for it and can say that it would have been a steal of a price for the game if I had enjoyed it more. Even the full current price of the game at $10.99 CAD would be fine for someone who enjoyed it more.My Score: 6.5/10My System:AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 580 8GB Gaming X | Mesa 19.3.3 | Samsung 850 Evo 250GB | Manjaro 18.1.5 | Mate 1.22.3 | Kernel 5.5.2-1-MANJARO

Game Information
Release Date September 13, 2018
Publisher Chance6 Studios, LLC
Content Rated T (Teen)
Game Modes Single player
Genres Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Themes Action, Horror, Survival
Platforms Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One