The Mummy Demastered

The Mummy Demastered is a metroidvania. A genre where you get powers and backtrack to get into different areas using those powers. The powers you get are boring; running faster, jumping higher, grabbing on to the ceiling. A semi interesting power is walking underwater, which makes some areas harder as you can't actually swim. Before this point you would float despite wearing heavy armour. The art is beautiful, the music unmemorable. Of course like every Castlevania game this too needs a clock tower, one of the more annoying areas. Especially when you consider that getting hit will knock you back and make you fall. The worst part of the game though is the way death is handled. When you die you lose everything, health upgrades, weapons, everything. Now get back to where you were and kill the zombie soldier, while he's using your weapons. Kill him with the default gun. Due to this amazing disadvantage, I died 8 times, 7 of those were trying to get back what I'd lost the first time I died. Doors are not shown on the map, ensuring you'll have to backtrack more than you're required to. There's a lot of doors that require C4, there's no point equipping grenades or fire grenades once you've unlocked C4 due to this. I don't know why you're even able to switch back. Don't play this, play a great Metroidvania like Hollow Knight instead. Even during its best moments The Mummy Demastered is an average game.

Amazing sound track also!

the game sometimes crashes when changes between rooms

Ok, I get why a lot of people see this one as a hidden gem. Great retro 16 bit graphics, fantastic music, responsive game-play. It's a very satisfying metroid-vania. But it really doesn't add anything to the genre. Run and shoot and backtrack and explore, it's everything we are already use too. I love that people say that this game is better than the movie, however, that alone shouldn't make it stand out. If you love love love metroid-vanias, it is worth a go. But if you are expecting something that rewrites the formula or improves on it, you're better off looking elsewhere as there are a lot better titles out there.

I'm really conflicted about this game. I bought it because I've read a lot of people say that it's a metroid-style game, and that the game was good, different from the movie that was shit. I haven't seen the movie, but I can appreciate the game. Pros: - The game looks beautiful, the sprites look great, have good animation. - The gameplay can be fun for a good part of the game. - The controls are responsive, and work really well. Cons: - Map is INCREDIBLE flawed when you are trying to backtrack. a lot of times I would look at the map, thinking there was just a wall in a corridor, but there was a door there. - Platforming can be incredible annoying with the knockback (I know there is an item that either reduces or nullify knockback, but I didn't found the item, and I have 94% of the map complete by the end of the game). A lot of the times I just wanted to reach a platform when a bat/rat/spider would fall on me and I would fall all the way down the map. - The death mechanic isn't implemented very well. When you die, your body rises as an undead, and you need to kill it to recover your items. And, when I say Items, I mean EVERYTHING except scrolls. Weapons, grenades, some relics health upgrades, everything you lose. And when you kill it, it doesn't even give your weapons full ammo, wich can be annoying If you die on a boss (the game autosaves everytime you dies, so no save scumming). Overall, I had fun with the game, but a lot of the times I would get frustrated with knockback and the map. PS: I don't know exactly, but some bosses either are immune to certain weapons, or the weapons function like megamen, where the bosses are weak/strong against a specific one.