Posted on: October 23, 2018
Liuwil
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A classic which stood the test of time
Sometimes you need those 30 minutes of no complex thoughts and simplistic fun, yet you don't like leaving the game "in the middle of something". Painkiller provides. The game is well optimized and runs nicely even on crappy office laptops. Definitely install on SSD, if you have one. Better loading times. The graphics are dated but the cartoony style remedies that. The game is still very enjoyable even today. The gameplay is simple and the pacing a little too obvious, but that doesn't have to be a bad thing. Painkiller is a checkpoint based shooter making an effort to implement comfortable pacing. At the time of it's release, this was uncommon and not everyone liked it. The idea is that if you're experiencing constant nonstop action for too long, you'll simply get used to it and won't get the desired "kick" out of it. You enter an area and action music starts playing - you're in combat mode. Your goal is to kill all the monsters and collect their souls. Once you're finished with the area, you get a sound cue and a change of music. Now you're free to roam the area, look for ammo and secrets, and enter the next area when you're ready. This type of pacing is used to this day, although more recent games do a better job of implementing it. In some cases, there are so many enemies in an area you're wishing for the combat to end. In other cases, you will enter combat mode only to kill 1-5 enemies. Each level keeps a stat of how many enemies you've killed, how many souls you've collected, how many secrets, ammo crates, coins etc. you've found, how many objects you've destroyed, and more. And of course, you're free to try to 100% each and every level. Although you have to unlock levels in a given order, you can play whichever one you please later. Painkiller begs to be replayed over and over. What puts the game down in my eyes are the enemies. There are only a few basic types, and most enemies are a variation of another enemy. Some enemies are outright reskins.
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