About 45h on hard mode for me to do a full complete, that includes getting the secret ending and completing most side quests. Fantastic from start to finish. It putters out a bit by the third act but I think its more spread out nature is a nice palate cleanser from act 2, which is immensely dense content wise. The story is very good with themes that I really enjoy - the concepts of symbols and how they can both build and destroy; the power of belief and legend, how it can twist devotion into fanaticism and eventually disillusion; the question of whether revealing the truth is worth the cost of unraveling a lie... etc. It's not simple stuff. There's a lot to unfold as you learn about the history of Avalon, Arthur, his knights and the people surrounding them. It's brutal, bloody and dark - and an excellent tale. Worth playing. Gameplay is great overall, the combat is crunchy and very fun especially in melee, and the art direction is utterly magnificent. Well worth your time!
A pretty solid shooter overall. + Great art and design, very cohesive. + Music is great. + Sound effects are solid. + Weapon designs and creativity. - Levels are hit and miss. Some good stuff here and there, but a lot of blandness too. Gets creative at the end. - Perk system is not bad but didn't use it much. - Some areas are just too dark. - No real story, more shooty shoot. Overall pretty good. I'd say it's a "sale" game, but if you're really into Eldritch stuff it's a solid buy.
Just a great, hyper fast and well made FPS from start to finish. Great level design, good art, cool weapons, tight movement and a campaign that is just right in terms of length. Awesome music too. Well worth it, especially for Brutal Doom fans.
Fantastic from start to finish. +Nice art that complements GZDoom well. +Good use of lighting, nothing excessive. There's a solid balance of dark areas interspersed with great effects. +Satisfying weaponry that all have good use cases and creativity. +Very very good level design, lots of little secrets and interconnectivity. +Great music. -Animations can be a bit janky due to the pixelated nature of the enemies. -Attacking enemies from the top or bottom can weird because they are 2D and on a flat plane, so you can barely see them. -------------------------------------------- Tiny blemishes on an otherwise really good game. There's a lot of fun cheesiness to this game too with the cackling of the protagonist whenever he picks up grenades. Makes me laugh. Highly recommended, I feel bad I got it for like a dollar. They need more money for this effort.
Very good shooter overall. + Levels are large, interesting and well designed with cool themes. + Satisfying gunplay and gibs, delicious stuff. + Enemies are quite well designed overall with a good variety and mixture, and can be nasty in combos to fight against. + Great visuals and art direction, really nice. + Movement is mostly very tight and fun, dashing is a lot of fun. - The final hub world tends to run out of steam a bit with some annoying level design. The game doesn't handle stairs very well so there's a lot of sliding down them and accidentally falling into pits. It's an irritant. - In the final hub there are many surprise enemy encounters which catch you off guard in a stupid way. For example, there are some areas where a very powerful enemy will spawn behind you suddenly and smack you from behind. Not really fun or challenging, more just a bit of a d**k move from the level designers here. - There are two particular enemies - the brute and fire golem - which are annoyingly tanky and do obscene amounts of dmg on hard mode. Their HP needs a bit of a debuff. ------------------------------------------------------------ It's overall very good and I do recommend it. I finished it on hard and it was mostly fine sans the two enemies I mentioned and the dmg they dealt. I don't recommend playing it on hard unless you're quite the vet of classic shooters like Quake and Unreal. It is relentlessly punishing. I found it fun, but medium is probably the way to go. Also, use the blade of ruination often (the starting melee weapon). It is VERY high dmg and can shred some of the tankier enemies very fast. The game favours offensive play. 4.5 stars.
Writing this 20 minutes after completing the game, and what an amazing ride. I was very interested in this game the moment it was announced and I saw the first trailers, but what ended up happening was I got sucked into Original Sin 2 as well as other personal things and completely forgot about it - but it was on the wishlist. I bought it, finally, on sale a few weeks ago and upon finishing it, I am immediately going to pick up its expansion if this game is anything similar to the quality presented in this game. I was mesmerized by the world building, character development, pacing of the story and RPG elements from start to finish. The world feels believable in a fantastical setting, which is a remarkable feat in itself as sometimes things simply seem a bit far-fetched - but no not here. What is great about Eo is that it is a very relatable universe to our own reality; fanatics, idealists, pragmatists, political issues, etc. It's easy to see the parallels and how the developers took elements of reality and made a world of their own. I REALLY loved all the different types of people and issues in the game. It sinked its claws in quite deep. Characters, particularly the ones you get close to, are extremely well written too. All of them have interest backstories, some of them deeply moving - and progressing in their backstories offers rewards in the form of ultimate kinds of abilities. And boy the story - it's so well paced. There were some genuine surprises and brutal moments, and it's paced well enough in that it slows at the right moments and reaches a crescendo in its most important moments. Gameplay is an RTS/RPG hybrid mix, similar to that of WarCraft 3, except that you can slow down time and pick abilities to use on heroes. It's really fun, and heroes get crazy powerful. This review is already too long but other major pluses: the OST, voice acting, visuals and art direction. Negs would be technical issues, bugs and scripting. Overall though, amazing game!
