Posted on: June 24, 2022

WishmasterTheDark

Games: 169 Reviews: 21

All men eat, but Fu Manchu.

If you love Serious Sam, you are going to like this one. Instead of the iconic chainsaw, you wield a katana. It has RPG elements which allow you to focus on certain combat styles, and utilize and upgrade your combat moves, which are essentially tied to your katana. Each combat move has certain powers which should be used in adequate situations. For example: using area of effect strikes when surrounded by mob, using single target special attacks on powerful enemies, using energy slash attack for dealing ranged damage, etc. Other usable weapons are firearms (micro SMGs, shotgun, rocket launcher, flamethrower, etc.), and they have upgrades which add alternate firing modes to each of your weapons. The game is linear, but it has enough content to offer, especially if you are aiming to repeat the game by playing on higher difficulties, with fewer resources to plan out your build. Higher difficulties are challenging, unforgiving and a bit overdone at the times. Overall, the game is very fun experience, and the main character Lo Wang is very likable character. Definitely one of the most memorable characters in the gaming industry. One of the best Action games, and one of the best PC games overall.

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Posted on: April 23, 2014

henkie196

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 4

Quite fun with a few quibbles

Well, I wrote a longer review, but since GoG found it to be too long, and quite unhelpfully didn't tell me what the maximum length was, I'll just give the cliff notes. + Fun game, good melee, surprisingly good story and characterisation, secrets, no regeneration. - Not quite as funny as the original, some fights can be quite obnoxiously hard (IMO, and on hard mode). While playing the game, I felt it would be quite fun to replay the game with all the upgrades I had bought by the end of the game. To my pleasure I discovered that I could. To my utter annoyance, I discovered that it would only let me replay the game on baby mode, because I'd lowered the difficulty for two fights in the game. The last time I lowered the difficulty because it was that or me quiting the game all together - it's wasn't worth the frustration. It soured the game to me. It feels like the game (or devs) was calling me a total loser and would only allow me to play at what it deemed me proper level: baby mode. At least I got it on a discount.

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Posted on: January 31, 2015

Hardwarekonflikt

Verified owner

Games: 94 Reviews: 2

Not what I expected

I´m disappointed. I love the original, it had nice weapons, good jokes (Wash Whang, no ordinary rabbit etc.) and Lo Whang is a great one :) But in the 2013-version I miss all that things. The jokes sounds awful, even if it´s from the original, the voice sounds like the guy who speak it had actually no fun and read it from a sheet of paper. Weapons like sticky bombs and nuclear warhead, where is it? Some levels in the wood looking very similar to each other, really boring The cutscenes are to long and complicated for Non-Native-English-speaker. In many action scenes I don´t remember the original, it it´s more like Painkiller: Walk backwards and shoot, shoot, shoot. The skill-system is maybe nice for some players, but in an oldschool-shooter I don´t need em Conclusion: A game I will never touch again, but I still like the original.

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Posted on: June 21, 2014

drsmith2

Verified owner

Games: 215 Reviews: 2

Surprising in the right ways.

I was immensely impressed by this game. The combat was enjoyable and the humor was on point, as I expected. What I did not expect was to be drawn into the story, but the plot was actually much much stronger than I expected. I might even call it compelling. The game is also a great length with decent pacing. My biggest gripe is the boss battles, which are really the low point(s). They are all samey and obvious. I do recommend a harder difficulty than Normal if you want a challenge, as well.

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Posted on: December 9, 2014

sobershooter25

Verified owner

Games: 538 Reviews: 7

I finally play this game! Amazing!

I havent played too many games this year but out of all the shooter this is my favorite. I know it came out last year but for me this is my favorite shooter this year. Its like playing Big Trouble in Little China the video game. The sword fighting is action packed with so much finesse. Other games try to do this but they cant make a hero so quick and easy to control. I am not a fast type of gamer when it comes to shooters. But this game makes me feel like lightning. The story line is pure B movie humor. I havent laugh so hard at a game since South Park. Probably even more than South Park. I was even making my own one liners while playing. I cant believe this game hasnt been given more recognition. It is a must buy! I was a fan of the old one and this one raises the bar.

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