Posted on: August 1, 2017
Nova2000
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Ancient Chinese Secret Forgotten
(From Steam version, 52h) If you love Shadow Warrior but hate Borderlands then just stick with SW1. Being more fast paced and mobile than it's predecessor thanks to the more open environments, the removal of stamina and fall damage, greater variety of weapons, all exquisitely animated, fantastic audio-visual feedback and improved controls, you'd think it was just bigger and better but the eventual deal breaker for me was the constant interruptions: 1) Story: Alarm bells began ringing when, near the start, Kamiko stops Wang getting into his car to inform him she can just teleport us where we need to go and sure enough, the entire game consists of teleporting back and forth between the hub and the same two or three copy-pasted play pens, be it main or side-missions, which kills the pacing and what little investment I had, gives no sense of progress or momentum and leads to an ending I found abrupt and unsatisfying. 2) Gems: Having to constantly pause the game to scroll through a long list of boring stat-increasing gems just to check and incrementally upgrade all three slots of all nine weapons (Not even counting those not on the wheel!) just to try and stop enemies taking too many hits to kill only caused me whiplash and made it harder over time to get back into that shooter trance. As a result, each victory only made me sigh in frustration. Plus the colour-coding is useless since it's all too likely for those "legendary" reds that that boss just dropped to turn out worse than your common blues, probably because it got minus damage as one of it's downsides! The only interesting ones were the alternate - or should I say "replacement" - fire modes but since using them would mean sacrificing an actual damage gem, they went unused. I completed the game (on hard, just for the "better" drops) feeling nowhere close to satisfied due to the aforementioned whiplash. This game could have been fantastic but Borderlands and Diablo's influences have rendered it merely "okay".
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