AMID EVIL

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I was very excited to play this and when it went on sale I purchased it. Upon booting it up, it instantly crashed.....alright, no problem, just got to tweak some video configurations. I did that and it worked for the beginning of the first level and then crashed..... So i settled with low settings......on this game...even though i can perfectly play games that are 100x more graphically demanding. Honestly, there is no story. It consists of going through maze like levels and killing everything. This game barely has any blood in it which I don't know why I was hoping for an endless bloodbath but far from it. I really try to give every game a chance but this one I can't. This isn't a game that you will want to play in the future. Once you have played a little bit of it, you understand that it is bland. I don't know, but look up gameplay videos for it. If it doesn't catch your attention after, I suggest not getting it.

The last few years have seen a ton of retro boomer shooters come out - the vast majority of them are simply subpar - they ape better games poorly, missing the soul that made them interesting and fun in the first place. I've played the games the retro shooters are based on, and consequently I'm hard to please. I've played all the classics multiple times, I've played more DOOM megawads than you can shake a stick at - I've seen how people can do creative things in limited FPS engines. AMID EVIL is different from the other retro boomer shooters. AMID EVIL is actually better than most of the classic games it's riffing off of (Heretic, Hexen, Hexen 2, etc). It's easily better and more fun than all of those except Hexen. It manages to have interesting and fun maps, encounter design that works, interesting weapons, good pacing/design - this is not a retro shooter cashing in on aesthetics, this is a game designed by people who are seasoned in design. I'm willing to bet money the developers/designers have mapped for Quake/Doom before, because they actually know how to make maps that are architecturally abstract, visually breathtaking, and interesting to explore - something other retro boomer shooters just can't manage. Highly, highly recommended by someone who has actually (and repeartedly, and recently) played the games that inspired this one.

I really missed to have some kind of story to draws me in. But there is nothing. The only thing that makes it somewhat unique is that the weapon skins are staffs. There is a variety of different enemies, bosses, and levels but the gameplay is just too simplistic to really let me enjoy this.

I like FPS games. I usually like the levels in FPS games to kind of make sense. For example in Duke Nukem 3D you're wandering down a street. Over here is a store and down the street is a bar, etc. In Amid Evil, it's just "levels for the sake of being levels" and there's no other rhyme or reason for it. But, I can deal with it because you're supposed to traveling around in weird outer realms and such. It's not like you're on earth or anything. The big problem I had is the game won't use any custom keybindings I set. The hud increase and decrease are set to - and + respectively. Well, I like to use those keys for something else so I changed them to something else in keybindings. Yet, every time I hit - on the num pad, it still decreased the HUD even though that was bound to a different key. It was like it was hard coded into the game or something. Eventually, I got tired of fighting with this thing and moved on to a different game. Too many games out there nowadsays to waste time on one that won't cooperate with you.