Posted on: August 24, 2024

phanboy4

Games: 585 Reviews: 15

The most 2000s-era thing you can play

Finally played to completion after many years of wondering what this game is all about. It reminds me a lot of another 2000s-era game (that Jesper Kyd also worked on) - Hitman: Codename 47. Like that game, it's occasionally confusing and frustrating. Like that game, it's occasionally juvenile, mean-spirited, and silly in the way games from 2000 were. Like that game, it has a tendency to drop you into sprawling environments with multiple objectives and let you figure it out. Like many games from this era, combat actually sucks and the environmental puzzle-solving and platforming are the interesting bits. But it's relatively short, it's weird, it's interesting, and once you get it set up and working and understand what kind of game it's trying to be, it's fun little bit of experimentation with an industrial-grotty aesthetic that is very time-and-place. (Whoever decided to smear over the actually-good Jesper Kyd ambient tracks with Fear Factory was a doofus though, and you can tell not everyone was sold on it - there's an option to turn that off in the menu)

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Posted on: September 25, 2014

toad3k

Games: 96 Reviews: 6

Personally, I liked it

I am surprised to see the reviews for this game all over. I got this game for free when I bought a graphics card a long time ago. I do not know how many years it had been out at that point, but I would guess about four. I do not know if it stands up to the test of time, nor do I know if it has any glitches on modern games. This game really surprised me. It has an interesting mechanic where you are a cherub that possesses enemies and then use them to sneak by or to execute each other. Usually that is humans, but sometimes it is various animals. If you die while inside a person, you pop out, and are defenseless. There is an easy difficulty but I quickly realized that it made things too easy. If you are on the hardest difficulty you can only possess someone if you catch them at unawares right in the center of the back. This makes it into a quasi stealth game where you are trying to find an opportunity to slip into someone while no one else is looking. If you get caught it is unlikely you'll be able to possess anyone who is currently shooting at you. The story is nothing special, but I enjoyed the inevitable conclusion of the game. I did not feel any particular need to replay it.

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Posted on: November 27, 2008

BigDaddyGoose

Games: 34 Reviews: 10

Great idea, poor game

I played through this game brand new. Interesting idea: Take control of characters by possessing them. This was useful when the characters were tough brutish guards and soldiers... but most of the time they were scientists or night shift security. But the game fell flat on it's soft pink face when crash after crash made it near impossible to complete a level. Soon I was fighting the game rather than the characters in the game in order to win it. Even at this price, pass.

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Posted on: July 3, 2011

HarbingerOfTheVoid

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Games: 81 Reviews: 1

Meh-siah

Makes me wish for a return or exchange policy, even at the cut-rate price I paid. I was really hoping for more humor and puzzles out of Shiny. This really plays like an early and uncertain FPS. You'll want to remap the controls to something more standard, but even then don't expect the same response as a modern FPS. You're often overwhelmed by rooms full of enemies as powerful or more so than yourself, and your only hope is to keep jumping from body to body, trying to get behind enemies without being turned into a game of 'kick the baby'. So far I haven't encountered any humor, other than the intro where some game developer argues with his 6 year old, which doesn't hold up well. I've played worse games, but rarely paid for them.

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Posted on: June 16, 2023

PeterSamael

Games: 20 Reviews: 1

SUPER

Perfect original idea !

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