Did you know… that the developers of Twisted Metal made a game for Microsoft on the PC in the 90s? And that it’s basically Starship Troopers with jet packs? It’s kinda janky. But it is pretty fun to zip around in a jet pack and blow up bugs. The difficulty is stupid, which is the game’s major downfall. I used a cheat to complete it. There’s no checkpoints, no save in game, so if you die you restart the level. And you will die. Enemies can wear you down in 4-5 shots. But… that 90s crunchy feel with lovely expansive levels along with the jet pack gameplay makes this feel like a hidden gem.
A souls-like that isn’t dark and moody. Really colorful, vibrant graphics that I found appealing. There’s a neat painterly effect that appears on distant vistas. The gameplay is forgiving for a souls-like (which still means you’ll die a lot) and it really depends on stunning opponents in a crowd using the environment so that you can fight one at a time, otherwise you get swarmed. The fencing aspect and adventure-movie feel is spot on, think Zorro, Three Musketeers, etc. The story is light and light-hearted, it does the job of carrying along the gameplay. It’s fun, check it out.
