This game is hilarious and dripping with style. You'll be jumping, swinging, running, gunning, snooping, exploring, scanning, and enjoying their spots of hilarious videos and dialogue snippets. It scratched so many gaming itches, I played through the entire thing. Fantastic job devs, and I can't wait to play the next one!
Cute dialogue, fun silly vacuum mechanic, 3D platforming, exploration, solid story, very colorful world, just an all around solid game and very enjoyable.
I love how you can switch between different classes on a whim and customize them to your heart's content. It has full voice acting, save whenever you want, tons of great things. This and Victor Vran are the types of ARPGs that spoil the rest of the genre and make it hard to play Diablo or the like again, in a good way of course! Nice job developers!
Loved the first one and loving this second one even more. I was so afraid that the first would be the last and was so pleasantly surprised when the 2nd one was confirmed. There's really no other game like it mechanically, has a wonderfully charming world, music, art, the whole package. Fantastic job and kudos to the developers. You have a day 1 buy from me next time too if we get another!
There are tons of weird weapons, characters, upgrades, research, planets, weather, silly stories, boss fights, and the art is great for its style. There are some little niggly details about the game that could have greatly improved it (I stopped writing down game issues for a while to take a break because normally I would list them), but for the most part, it's interesting and enjoyable. I soured on FTL pretty quickly, because I could see that the system is meant to be repeatedly played ad nauseum, whereas I typically enjoy a long, story-based game. HPWIS delivers this. However, I played the game on "infinite sol" mode (effectively how many "turns" you have to complete a system). I'm not sure how enjoyable it would be otherwise, because it didn't seem like the balance of this type of game was forgiving enough for the RNG factor, and are typically designed for replay. If you get a good weapon vs a bad weapon, it can be dramatically less effective, which begins to snowball. I artificially tried to limit how many sols I would use just to make things interesting, but towards the end was just enjoying the weapons and whatnot so didn't need to. Some of the boss fights are pretty insane, coming down to the wire even though I had infinite sols, so I'm not sure how the game would fair otherwise, if death is permanent, etc. where I could see that being pretty frustrating.
This game is great! I recently played Doom 2016, still had the Doom itch, saw GOG's new return policy, and same-day bought this game. I played it long ago when it first came out and scared the **** out off myself playing this game in the dark with headphones in my dorm room. I was originally reticent, because it's an old game, and wasn't sure if it would work, have some missing feature that would be insanely annoying (resolution, high refresh, keybind options, etc.) BUT this version plays GREAT! I thought I would maybe play it for a little bit and put it down, but this game holds up surprisingly well. I've found myself still playing and playing, and it looks like I'll probably beat it again and finally get a chance to play the expansion after all these years. Still scares the **** out of me somewhat now too. It's not the same type of gameplay as Doom 2016, but I don't think that's a bad thing, just different. It also has some great new features that the old one didn't have like making that stupid flashlight usable while having a gun (that was so silly). I bound the flashlight key to right-mouse and so try to turn it off regularly to make the atmosphere scarier as intended. It's obviously missing SOME modern features like good subtitles, but that's the only one that's really bugged me so far. I can't believe I'm still playing it and having a great time after all these years, they did a great job.
Fantastic job by the devs! It's more dynamic, better graphics, MUCH smoother animation now that it's not fps capped (it's running great on a 144hz g-sync monitor), smoother/slicker UI, music is still great, controls feel better. It has tons of new mechanics to keep it fresh and on your toes too. Double jumps, ground slams, falling and changing platforms, analog movement, back and forth shifting and sometimes dodging, vehicles, just tons of cool things along the way in the levels that I'm not listing, but I love! There's cool silly animations all over the place, the comedy is great, funny singing, puppet shows, inside jokes, just crazy the amount of cool stuff I haven't even mentioned. The mechanics, design, and environment are just great. There's also tons of cool little customization that you can get with the gems and coins you collect completing challenges (like flames, monocles, extra outfits, etc.). AND they have tons of "retro" levels where there's a whole mini-game inside the game that's more classic platforming... it's incredible how much more cool stuff they put in this game. Also there was a big update to the game recently that addressed many concerns I saw in reviews. They gave options for more difficulty settings (all separately adjustable) for more checkpoints, enemy density, stair assist, and MORE.
