Posted on: December 18, 2023
the_corrupted
Verified ownerGames: 351 Reviews: 24
It's OK
I've heard a lot about this game so I picked it up when it finally became available on GoG and it, regretably, didn't live up to the hype for me. Maybe I was spoiled by Turbo Overkill but I've found the gameplay here really slow and tedious. Enemies are extremely spongy and their attacks are slow. This leads to these really long, drawn out ammo dumps for single enemies with very little danger of actually getting hit. Enemies also have stun animations they can get locked into it which makes a lot of battles boil down to patiently and motionlessly unloading clip after clip into a single enemy until lead poisoning takes them out. Additionally since starting I've fought the same boss at least three times (Lord of Change) and the purge sections while fun at first quickly got irritating due to how often they use it. I really want to like this game. The atmosphere and lore (I can't view the videos because wine-ge/wine doesn't seem to handle it correctly out of the box) is cool but the actual gameplay is really slow and tedious. They do a good job making you feel like a living tank with the heavy footsteps and ability to tank a ridiculous amount of damage. The problem is that it sucks having to spend upwards of 30s blasting a single, relatively common enemy and having these enemies and bosses recycled ad nauseam with tons of them spawned for the purge sections which are way more common than they ought to be. It makes longer sessions really hard to get through without getting bored.
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