Posted on: September 24, 2017
darkmanifest
Verified ownerGames: 60 Reviews: 1
Good puzzles and graphics, iffy controls
I'm surprised by how much I enjoyed this. It wasn't my usual style of game - I find a lot of platformers more frustrating than they're worth - but GoG had it for free one day and I finally got around to playing. Finished it over two sessions in two days, a short game but that was fine for me. The good: Really liked the graphics style that was both crisp and minimal in the foreground, but really gorgeous to look at in the complicated background with feasting zombies, broken cars and burning cities. The story and characters weren't compelling, but finding scraps that other survivors left behind in the world, and bits and pieces of the main guy's own missing memory, helped flesh things out. The platforming puzzles were my favorite part - the solutions weren't always immediately apparent but never difficult to figure out, I had to use all the skills at my disposable at various moments, and often there was more than one way to pull it off, so I never felt railroaded. The not-so-good: Controls were okay for the most part, shooting was great, getting jumps right was satisfying, but melee combat was a crapshow, imprecise and with a pointless stamina meter, and the zombies are all but unaffected by an axe in the face anyway. Thank god for guns and avoidance. There's one infuriating part which you can find other players complaining about if you search for "Deadlight helicopter chase" online. Let me just say it's a bad idea to have a chase section where you have to climb over fences, but you can't climb faster than usual, and the character randomly stops responding to commands altogether while you're trying to get him off the freaking fence. That sequence was the reason I need two sessions to finish instead of one, so much rage, but thankfully, nothing else was as bad. Overall, pretty fun game that I think I would have been happy to get on sale and felt lucky to get for free.
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