Forgive Me Father

Growing up with the first Doom in 1993, i looking forward to the Retro Shooters. I just started the Game, and its awesome, The Art Style, the Mood, very good. And Part 2 is already in development, Awesome, cant wait. Great Work, i Hope the will be more Games, specially with this Kind of Art Style. And Special Thank to the Developers because of the Lovecraft Theme in the Entire Game. That from the Start a very Sepcial Game. Thank you

Played in hard mode, as the title says. The game ranges from very good to *atrocious*. It runs out of tricks at some point past the halfway mark so for the last third (or so) all you get is: - search for hidden door/room/passage - enemies spawn inside of said room/passage and there is no cover for you hide behind This makes the game descend into running in circles finding where to go > monster arena where you circle strafe and shoot over and over and over. The bosses are incredibly bad in hard mode. The last two bosses require you to look up/look around to damage them (they are really big) but there are things below you (below the camera/fov of 95) that damage you. Looking up to damage the boss? You are going to get hit from below. Looking down to dodge things? You can't damage the boss. "But hold on, maybe just memorize the attacks so you can strafe around while looking up at the boss", I hear you say. Not so fast, the developers thought of this too! Both bosses have a component of randomness specifically for this reason. The second to last boss makes the platforms you are standing on disappear so you need to look around for where to jump. Fell in the water? This will drain your armor/health in seconds. The last boss has a rolling... mass? ball? that moves around at random, you cannot look up at him and strafe around dodging his attack patterns no matter how good you are. Touching either of these random elements takes you from full to dead in a few seconds in hard mode. The weapons also range from good to awful, including a few that shoot something that travels across the ground. How are you going to shoot UP at a boss with a weapon that shoots a wave across the ground. Anyway, if you play everything on hard mode like I do I would break that rule for this game and just play it on normal or easy if you feel you absolutely HAVE to play this. Otherwise just play something else.

Easily takes a spot within TOP 3 most enjoyable shooters for me. I loved Project Warlock a lot, so I kept an eye on this game, and they're quite comparable despite some differences. Can't give it 5 stars because it suffers from the same problem as Project warlock did - it starts super strong, and becomes worse in later levels, so be wary of that. First few hours are polished to perfection though.

This game is pretty much what it says on the tin, a boomer shooter with cool Lovecraft atmosphere. If that sounds good to you, you'll sure enjoy it enough for a playthrough. It does have some negatives. There is no real feedback that you're being hit, so I very often died without even realizing I was in danger. The weapons are good but nothing really amazing or innovative and sort of lack "punch" outside of the shotgun. Having a revolver and not making it feel like a hand cannon is always a crime in shooters. Overall though these are minor complaints which knock the game down a star but don't prevent it from being fun and worth your time.

The art and sound effects are great. But the level design is so one note that it wears out its welcome far too early for my tastes. I'd suggest picking up the OST instead of the game, if you're going to give the developers any business.