Great Doomclone. Forges of Corruption fun but doesn't add that much. Get the bunde on sale.
I got it for free so I can't complain. It plays like a Skyrim mod. Great atmosphere. In a nutshell, ring the bell to make it night time and then use audio cues and the map to find all the things and talk to all the wraiths. They're all dead but only most of them deserve it. Tense firefights with muskets and bows that actually work pretty well. The map makes it so you can find most of what you need pretty easily. The lack of any real quest log means you end up exploring blindly most of the time. Game gets crash-happy about 3/4ths through the game when you fast travel. Autosave brunts the worst of it. Ending is dumb. 5-7 hr playtime. Good for free!
Does a good job of continuing the concepts and charactes of the first. It has some "needlessly obtuse" puzzels that end up being drawn out click fests of running in circles trying every option. Some other reviewer used that phrase and it is apt. The writing is great and most of the voice acting is on point as well. The biggest dissapointment is that it was clearly intednded to be a part 2 of 3. And Part 3 is very unlikely per the developer. See video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjJd37oXUxI Big fans will enjoy part 2. Casual fans might be better off sticking to part 1.
I've played a lot of older shooters like this and have to say: skip this one. The controls are awful, and you are limited in your options to remap them. That's the single biggest issue. For me, I spent more time fighting the controls than the enemy. The game also is extremely pixelated, probably due to its age. I see as I write this review that there is an updated "Ludicrous Edition" upcoming that should fix these issues. (Upcoming as of January 2022.) I might try that one out, and it might be a lot better, but as for this original: skip it. There are a ton of better old shooters to play.
I can see a lot of potential in this game. (Which I got for free.) But I hate 2D platformers. Especially the old ones that this game tries to emulate.
I'm not going to buy it again though, Todd. Stop asking me.
Great game, but a lot of people on here say that it doesn't like to play on modern systems. Might I humbly suggest that the Xbox 360 port Beyond Good and Evil HD is 10$ and is backwards compatible on Xbox One and Series S/X? I just played it and it had no technical issues. Not sure if it actually runs at 60fps but it looked like it. No crashes and it looked great with achivements and of course controller support. Of course, I might rebuy here just for the soundtrack.
I've been a fan of Medal of Honor since the PS2 days. MOH Frontline was one of my first games. I love the franschise. But man this game is no fun in 2022. It has every one of the things people hate about shooters from this era. Hypervigilant enemies with hitscan rifles. Enemies shooting you through one-way cover. Teleporting enemies. NOT ENOUGH Health Kits! In the DLCs, NOT ENOUGH AMMO. Mission insta-failures due to AI allies dying. Far too many on-rails vehicle segments. No ADS (COD would add this a year later.) Enemies suicide charging you. Inablility to pick up any weapon. Hit directionals in compass instead of the edges of the screen. Enemies indistinguishable from terrain. This game is an importand part of gaming history. But unlike DOOM, Half-Life, Halo, or COD, this chapter should not be revisited.
I got this for free on Epic, reviewing their version. I had no expectations when I started playing. Actually I expected to play 10 minutes, uninstall, and forget I ever had this game. But it drew me in with it's atmosphere, and I stuck around all the way to the finish. In Sound Mind plays a lot like the newest Resident Evil Games (7&8). It's light on combat and heavy on suspense and puzzle solveing. It differs from Resident Evil in that every Level has its featured tool and there is minimal backtracking. Aside from a gun and flashlight, you will gradually find tools based on your antagonists that will help you defeat them. And you can use all your tools to fing more gear in the Hub that serves as an interlude between levels. It's a not terribly scary game. Much more suspense than horror. Little if any blood or gore. There are some jumpscares, where the antagonist will poof into existence just to make you piss yourself, but he can't actually hurt you untill the end of the game. Good soundtrack and sound design. Poor optimisation. I depending on the area averaged 40-50 fps. Low replay value. Anyway, I had fun but not $35 worth of fun. Snag it on sale. It's definitely worth playing at least once.
Army Men is a fantastic idea for a game franchise. It's just very poorly executed. The controls are poorly executed, and re-mapping the keys doesn't help. You fight the controls more than the enemy. Enemy AI is way too responsive, even on easy. Weapon balancing is a joke. That plus the controls make the game stupidly hard to play. I don't regret buying it on sale. It's fun to putz with but it really is a pain to play.
