Posted on: September 22, 2024

Unfallen_Satan

Gry: 604 Opinie: 78

Virtue and flaw in equal measure

To the point: 1. The swordplay is great with several skills that make the sword useful in different situations, including at range, but the gunplay is more situational, almost puzzle-like in their applications. 2. Multiple skills give Lo Wang more control over the battle, like CC and healing (the healing skill is especially good at keeping LW in prolonged fights), but skills are activated by double tapping the direction keys then pressing alternate fire. In a hectic firefight with guns upgraded with alternate fire, misfires are common. 3. The environment, especially the outdoor ones, can be gorgeous and even majestic, but there is very limited environmental story telling. 4. The story of the Ancients, told through stylish hand-drawn cutscenes, is surprisingly emotional and very Asian, but that story has very little to do with Lo Wang's rampage through the game. 5. The voice acting, especially Hoji's, and the music fit the setting well, but the dialogue/writing feels cringy, even more than the old Lo Wang, whose lecherous old man archetype is a long-running inside joke in Japanese culture. 6. There are in-game achievements with several that motivate the player to practice game mechanics, but some are only grindy with no apparent purpose to those achievement "points." Having played through Shadow Warrior Redux including both expansions, I found SW to sit at a unique place between old school shooters and tactical shooters. SW 2013 carries on this tradition admirably. The Ki skills let me safely draw out multi-wave fights even in relatively confined spaces. The different weapons and environmental designs almost always let me fight tactically even when all hell broke loose. The last mob fight of the game was especially rewarding, albeit tiring. If you are not used to this middle ground, however, you may find the pacing of the game off. To me, this game is an excellent reboot/prequel to Shadow Warrior Classic, but it could use some more work.

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Posted on: October 9, 2024

NOOBMASTER

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Gry: 157 Opinie: 3

Great for casual players, frustrating

Ok, it's not perfect. The boss fights especially can get frustrating when playing on harder difficulties. It's the same thing every time. You just kite the projectiles and boss attacks, in order to break their armor, and then you can deal damage to them. Rinse and repeat. What I like about this game is the story, voice acting, and the art style. Everything else is really repetitive or gets boring quickly. Katana is only a good weapon you are playing on easier difficulties, where you can use its special skills without being afraid of getting nuked by ranged attacks. The weapons have upgrades, sure, but other than that the skill progression is rather bland. Even looking for the secrets gets boring after a while, mainly because there are some places where you can out of map boundaries, but most of the cases it's just a bug / glitch. You are then either stuck and forced to die / load game, or the game just instantly kills you for leaving the boundaries, even if it is as easy as crouching and walking through a fence. When fighting, most of the time you are kiting monsters, in order to nuke one or two stronger ones, and only then can you start dealing with the less dangerous demons. And finally, the game's native version doesn't even run on modern systems,due to it being a 32-bit executable. Just use Proton Experimental from the first launch. There also something weird about aiming and shooting because if you just damage a few enemies on one side, and then use a powertful shot on the enemies on the other side, then you will get kills for those enemies that were already damaged. It's very strange, as if rewarding careless gameplay more than actual, precise shooting. Really, the only redeeming quality about this game is its story.

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Posted on: December 21, 2024

da_bonj

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Gry: Opinie: 3

Lots of fun

Classic game play, silly dad jokes. My son saw me playing this and promptly sparked up my other pc to play Shadow Warrior 2. It got him off his ps4 for the next 8 hours.

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Posted on: February 5, 2025

A.G.B.

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Gry: 823 Opinie: 84

Pretty good

I don't have Nostalgia for the original so this will be unbiased. I definitely do think that it makes sense to make more entries in this series and I could imagine one or more of its sequels which I haven't played yet nail it. Overall it is too easy. You can basically sleepwalk through it. This is probably one of those cases where the developers so badly wanted players to experience all the content that they didn't want to risk dissuading any through excessive challenge and they went too far in the other direction. It is definitely fun using the sword which it also was in the original but here you can even chop off limbs if you cut off the dominant hand the enemy will be less effective against you but will continue attacking you similar to House of the Dead and in general very zombie-like. The various abilities and powers are pretty cool though it is too easy to get all of them unlike something like Deus Ex 1 for example. As you unlock them the idea is that this will keep you engaged but really in just minutes of playing you'll have experienced everything this really has to offer. It would be great if you could get Lo Wang and/or Hoji to stop with the snark at least briefly or honestly maybe just shut up entirely. The plot is quite thin but I did appreciate the backstory and universe. And I'm really glad that they went the soft reboot path and didn't try to make a direct sequel to the original, since if we're being honest the plot of that one wasn't amazing it didn't create as interesting a world as this does. The weapons sound significantly more memorable than they are once you start using them. Also, the levels are too open leading to a lot of frustrating backtracking. You don't get to do that much cool stuff other than combat puzzles tend to boil down to key hunts and flipping levers and such. At least the door you're headed towards does glow nicely so when that's all you got to do you can tell where to go.

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Posted on: September 26, 2013

Roclawski

Gry: 56 Opinie: 1

Simply fantastic!

Probably the best shooter of 2013

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