It's interesting, fairly simple side-scrolling shooter/hack&slash. Quite easy, which is pleasant, except Some Bosses are infuriating difficulty spikes. Love the art style, reminds me of the old Blade Warrior. Unfortunately easy to get lost and not know where to go. And picking this up after a period of not playing makes that worse.
It's pretty good. If you liked the first one, this is also good. Though I feel like this time things are even more disconnected from coherent storyline and it seems to be just madness. Guns feel great, love how most things die quickly from headshots. Haven't yet met an enemy that felt spongy. Great art direction. The story is really the weakest part, and I can not say I am fan of the voice in my head. Sadly there's not much variety in what you do in each level either, though there is the occasional puzzle or investigative piece, most of which are easy. But I prefer easy over moon logic. Good stuff. If you've played the original, this is more of the same but more refined.
It's pretty decent open world hack&slash, no spongy enemies to speak of that bore me, some weird storytelling, some geometry glitching that I can't get over an ankle high brick without jumping, and there's unfortunately many crashes. Worst part however, is the blue boy constantly telling me to mark shit on my map or the like, repeatedly, even though they said it like a second ago, seven times.
Vaguely inspired by the original game. Only superficially similar, so if you were looking for a remake, this is not it. This is more of a re-imagining of some of the high concepts. I wanted something closer to the original, so I did not like this as much as it probably deserves, but since they went with using the name of the original for the second time, I can not forgive that (I didn't forgive them for the last time they re-used the original's title, but that was a fun game back when I played it). Worst part is that the guns feel weak for the amount of shooting you need to do and ammo you get. So if you keep missing like I do, you'll be reloading a lot. Melee feels decent, but your weapon usually breaks after killing one enemy, maybe two if you're lucky. For how frequent the fighting gets after a bit, this makes the game quite literally suck. Puzzles are good, though some a bit obscure in what they want. Some puzzles are super simple tho. Playing as the different characters also gives altered story, so that's neat. Although gameplay seems in my limited exposure to second character identical except for differently powered and behaving pistol.
Unfortunately buggy remake, but still playable. The enemy AI stops working occasionally, this has some features removed the original had though has some new quality of life ones added, characters keep sinking into the ground like in quicksand, performance is pretty bad (the original ran perfectly on Duron 350 and no GPU, they haven't increased the fidelity That much), etc. I don't remember if the swimming sounds in the original were this bad, but they're horrible. Worst part is that some dialogs keep hanging with people staring at each other for like half a minute before it decides to just cancel it. Otherwise, it's about as good as the original? I'll probably play the original after I finish with this one just to see how much my memories have gilded it.
It's just great. Go play it!
It's actually surprisingly good. I put it off because I thought it'd be janky as hell, but now that I've been playing it, I've been pleasantly surprised. The mixing of french in the dialogs is neat and weirdly smooth which I've not seen before. All other similar cases have been "I'm French-desu" style, but not this, this is doing it Well. The story is interesting and doesn't feel like it witholds crucial info too long. All the enemies being robots (automats as they're called in-game) is kinda meh, but there's nice variety to them. There's some non-critical bugs with dialogs (camera not following speaker), some side-quests seem to not progress fully (hollow cannonball one for me just ended abruptly before conclusion). But no issues with the main quest. The citizen stories side-side quests are pretty much impossible to complete without a guide tho (thus I haven't bothered). Countering is hard, I don't know if the timing is just super tight, or if it's bugged. I'm not good with that kind of gameplay in most games, so I'm poor judge of it. Overall, I have liked it so far and I believe I am nearing finishing with the game. (gog really wanted me to write this with the constant pestering for it)
I don't know what the reviews that give this game barely any points are on about. The combat is slower paced than Heretic or the like (it's not a boomer shooter), sure, but that doesn't mean it's bad. It's more complex than old games (not by much, but I feel it), there's actual story, you aren't running million miles per hour, etc. I've enjoyed it greatly so far.
