Posted on: November 10, 2017
groze
Verified ownerGames: 1456 Reviews: 39
Really flawed port
A lot of people reviewed the Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy they played on consoles. I, too, played this game way back when, on the Nintendo Gamecube and, yes, it is one of the best titles that console had to offer, sadly extremely underrated and overlooked. The thing is, while this THQ Nordic PC port *is*, in essence, the same game, it's a pretty lousy port, and I truly hope they address some of the issues the game has, right now, with a patch -- sooner, rather than later. I know 3D platformers are best played with a controller, but at least they're somewhat playable with keyboard and mouse. This port, sadly, has very unintuitive keyboard controls (action buttons are Esc, TAB, F and Space, and they can't be remapped), while mouse controls the camera with no context sensitive or attack button mapped to the mouse buttons. I only played through the tutorial areas of both Sphinx and Mummy, it didn't take me too long, but it's enough to see how bad this port is. They added some graphical bells and whistles, but, to be fair, I would prefer to play it in 800x600 looking like it originally did, with no anti-aliasing, no multisampling and no option to adjust field of view, since it already looked great as it did back in the day, and have them focus on a *proper* intuitive control scheme for the keyboard and mouse. Not to mention the sound is all glitchy, though that may be just on my end -- a lot of times, sound effects will keep looping until I leave an area or a cutscene starts, just to be replaced by another loop of different sets of sound effects. I can still play the game, it's still as charming as it ever was, but the gameplay didn't translate well to PC, especially with such a lazy team doing the porting. Play this with a controller, if you have one, stay away from it if you only have a keyboard and a mouse. The game gets four stars from me because I loved the original console release. This port, however, would have deserved two stars, without nostalgia weighing in.
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