This is the first Blumhouse shooter: a damned island, blood like ammunition and demonic sirens in the new Spanish rarity that blends a bad restination with dark mythology

In a sector where almost everything seems to follow marked models, It looks like an FPS that shouldn’t work … but it does it. Is called Crisol: Theater of IdolsThe Spanish study signs him VERMILA STUDIOS and it does not publish anything else that Blumhouse gamesThe same brand that redefined modern horror cinema. And yes, his first game is A wild amalgam between Resident Evil, Bloodborne and the Iberian folk horror with the sirens included.

Blood, faith and blows

From the first moment, Crogiol Personality overflow. There are no futuristic or spatial soldiers. Instead, the protagonist is Gabriela religious fan attached to The fictitious island of Tormentosaa scenario that mixes Catholic Spain Post -guerra with wooden monsters, mutilated and virgin bodies drowned They walk as if they were broken puppets.

But what makes this shooter really feel firsthand They are its shooting mechanics: here the bullets are your blood. Literally. Every time you shoot, you lose your health. When you recharge, there are no chargers: you do your hands and extract ammunition directly from the veins. It is grotesque, uncomfortable and fucking bright.

Are you running out of blood? Well, it’s time to look for fresh corpses and absorb its essence. Or inject Blood ampoules of the sirenThose mythical creatures that are moving away from the Disney ideal to transform into viscous, divine and mortal entities.

A shooter that has a smell of incense, blood and sea salt

Parallelisms with Resident Evil They do not hide, but they do not feel copied. The setting of tormentosa recalls the decadent luxury of the castles infested by the supernaturallike that of the people of Resident Evil 4But with a more Iberian touch: there are Derret candles on broken virgins, abandoned fish marketsy Pagan altars full of deformed ecclesiastical symbols.

Visually, the game is full of shocking scenes: Puppet of the Virgin Mary with empty eyes and folded hillsEnemies that move like ghost ships and corpses that explode in columns of light. All this strengthened by an artistic design that combines the gloomy with the poeticsomething he does Crogiol He feels disturbing as beautiful.

And when the struggle becomes more intense, the protagonist releases phrases like “Burns on behalf of the sun”By strengthening the idea that this is not a simple hunter, but a fan who believes is sent by a divinity to eliminate evil. What in other games would be pure brutality here becomes a kind of Sacred bleeding rite.

A promising debut for Blumhouse Games

Crisol: Theater of Idols It is the first Blumhouse title in the world of video games and the movement has been risky but intelligent. Instead of betting on the generic, They allied themselves with a small study but with their own voice, And the result is a game that He lets you want to explore folk nightmares.

Although it does not yet have a confirmed launch date, it is expected to reach PC, PlayStation 5 Y Xbox Series Xand after his demo, Expectations are well above what many expected of this debut.

This is not just a shooter. AND An atmospheric experienceA dark fairy tale that Save the fear of the sea, religion and the body itself. It is a story of sacrifice, blood and redemptionwith a combat system as gratifying.

And yes, it is also a game on the sirens, but not on those who comb the hair with forks. Here are the sirens Primordial creatures that whisper from the coastwho transform men into monsters and whose blood can return your life … or end by condemning you.