Gex is great! It's a shame this collection had to be done by LRG.
Everything is solid. My only complaint is having to buy your maps before you can even start mapping the area. You should be able to start mapping the area right away like Metroid. Looks like I'm about half way through the game, at least, by area count. So far it's been somewhat easy. I've beaten every boss in 1 or 2 tries. I'm sure that will change before the end.
A decent DKCR clone. I wish they would have forged their own path a bit more. The part that really made me role my eyes was the bonus stage, running around on 8-bit art of the character. Directly taken from Mario 3D World. The art work is gorgeous and creative, while the gameplay is creatively bankrupt. But at least they're ripping off one of the best, Retro Studios. The only negative I really have is the floaty controls. Sometimes they play a smoothing animation and other times it snaps to the new animation causing inconsistency in player movement. It's not terrible, but it'll lead to a few unfair deaths. For some reason the devs seem to hate PC gamers. The PC version released months after consoles, yet they still saw the need for excessive DRM. They obviously got over that since we now have a DRM free version on GOG. However, damage was already done. I know plenty of people who avoided this game because of Denuvo and have since forgotten about Nikoderiko. Hopefully the devs learn from their mistake.
It's ironic we get Doom 4 on GoG now considering Dark Ages is so close to release yet riddled with excessive DRM, ensuring I will not buy it.
Overall a fantastic adventure game. It's kind of insane that they wrote and voice acted unique dialog for every combination of NPC + inventory item. This isn't even a negative point towards the game, but more of a warning. There's a rather large tonal shift when you hit chapter 4. Suddenly the fantasy-comedy themes turn much darker (especially with the bad ending). It works for the story, but it's also a bit of tonal whiplash. The only real negative I can give is there are a few items that are too well hidden. There might be ten trees on every screen. Searching the trees always results in the same response. Except for this one tree that's special in no other way than it contains an item. These situations are rare.
