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Project Warlock

It would have been forgotten in the 90s

It pains me to write this review as the developers clearly have a lot of passion for the era it is representing. In a nutshell, the game is full of real passion and terrible design. The good: - Graphics - No other recent game has looked as much as a 90s FPS than this game. And the spritework and animations are incredible - It is quite fun to play, despite what I'm going to say next. The issues: - It's not as fun as FPS games from the 90s. If this was released in the 90s, it'd fall into obscurity and be considered average. - The moment - It doesn't feel sharp or accurate, which is a key element of what made 90s FPS games great. Cooldown on weapons are unclear. I kept thinking my mouse button was broken. - The levels lack good design, another key element from 90s FPS games. They didn't consider that they had enemies that shoot projectiles, yet most levels are just VERY tight corridors, so forget about strafe-dodging. Even Wolf 3D had wider corridors. The levels flow well, but are unimaginative. - Weapon switching prioritise weaker weapons. For example, pressing 1 once gives you a weak knife, pressing it twice gives you a strong axe. It should be the other way round to help when you're frantically swapping weapons. When you run out of ammo in any gun, it auto switches to the weak knife. These simple design mistakes detract a lot from the game. - The upgrade/progression system is way too confusing for a simple genre. - The lives system is unclear. When playing on normal difficulty, if all your lives are lost, you entire progress is lost. Some people may not realise this until they're half-way through and have to start from the very beginning again. - The bosses are a horrendous difficulty spike. It's not that they're bad, just that the levels prior are mindlessly easy. When you die in this game, it is from not knowing the game, not your own mistake. Saying that, I'm not bored of it yet (on Ep 3). But I know once I finish it I probably won't play it again.

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