PowerSlave Exhumed

Pretty cool metroidvania in first person shooter form

We need a remake or a sequel. Or more Egyptian theme FPS.

I have only ever played a demo of the PC version way back when, so I have no idea how true this is to either the Sega Saturn or the PS1 versions. To be honest, I'm not sure it should matter. I liked the game initially - a bit basic, but unique-feeling old-school shooter. The ammo system bugged me from the start, but I sort of accepted it. Same goes for the checkpoints. Heck, even the general game structure grew on me, though personally I think the "metroidvania" elements of the progression did the game absolutely no favors. Heck, at least two of the powers you unlock just aren't particularly well designed and the rest isn't all that interesting. So really a linear progression through the levels - from what I understand, what the non-remastered version does - would be perfectly fine here for my money. But what really killed the fun for me was the rather poor level design in the latter half of the game. There are at least two levels that you can basically fail by running out of ammo for one of the weapons. Once that happens, go ahead and restart the checkpoint. Can't gather any ammo because it drops from enemies randomly? Restart the whole level and hope for the best. Doesn't sound great, huh? Let me stress, they don't do it once, but multiple times. And as far as I gathered, there's a single point in the game where you HAVE to grenade jump. Which is an entirely ridiculous thing to include in a game's critical path - may I remind you, you might not actually have ammo for it, or the health level necessary to take the hit. If not for all of that, the first two or so hours with the game are fun enough, but I would argue that the game is just too expensive to only be fun for half of its already somewhat short span. I just can't say I'm happy with my purchase, even though I got it at a discount.

There is no option for invert mouse? :/ Otherwise looks good, but without inverted y axis i'm screwed.

Surprisingly good combination of metroidvania and first person shooter. It was published two years after DOOM and yet they nailed this new genre.