I don't know what's up with all these incorrectly negative reviews, this game is wonderful, charming and a scrumptious bona fide modern horror classic. The gameplay is simple, stealth, avoiding enemies, finding your way through. Where it shines is the singularly disturbing and thick atmosphere, with an interesting horror concept/story underneath for us to discover. It's been a favorite of mine for a long time. Unfortunately, the GOG version doesn't include the achievements which feature some fun bonus challenges, but that didn't hinder my enjoyment too much, anyway. Also loved the DLC, Whistleblower, giving me another viewpoint from which to explore the location and featuring a new, even more disturbing main enemy. Also worth it at this point, IMO. If you're into horror at all, you should grab it, it's a fun ride.
Edgelord-y difficulty and posturing with it, sprites so small and graphics so dark and muddy you can barely tell what's going on, and whenever you fire a gun, the screen vibrates for some reason (more than any FIRST person shooter I've ever played) which is irritating and makes it even harder to tell what's happening. Just play the games that this game thinks it's emulating. To the (pixelated) scrapyard.
I understand what this game is. What I don't understand are that its held in such high regard by numerous people, for what it is: slow, boring, plodding, cheesy, unappealing to look at even by 1995 standards and a completely silly story that is barely resolved by the end. And I don't see how it was innovative, either. Better adventure games that came out the same exact year that do everything better than D: The Journeyman Project 2, Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within, Full Throttle, The 11th Hour, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (now *that* game has what you would actually call a great story), Clock Tower, Qin: Tomb of the Middle Kingdom, Prisoner of Ice and The Dig.
Generic indie game that you've seen before. Journey, Hob, whatever, it's like a parody. It's visuals and some simplistic gameplay that tricks hipsters into thinking that they like it. It's unoriginal and unsatisfying. It also runs terribly unless you have a modern gaming PC, which it shouldn't. There are well optimized modern games that run fine on older machines. (Like Doom 2016, which takes up ten times more space on my HD than riMe or whatever, and runs about five times better). I didn't pay for this game. That's about the only positive I can say about it, because it's also comically overpriced for how basic and badly programmed it is.
Pretty sure most people like this because it reminds them of their childhood. Is it a good game though? Nah. Especially when you compare it to the Jedi Knight series. I even like the Super Star Wars games on Super Nintendo better. While the gameplay is quite varied, only the first stage is ever really that much fun. Every other vehicular stage ranges from boring to annoying (Mos Eisley -_-). Rail-shooting 50 TIE fighters in stage was probably impressive to some degree when this game came out, but it's really just another gimmick. The 3rd person shooter gameplay is somewhat workable on PC, but aiming and jumping still has this floatiness to it. It's somewhat fun if you have the jetpack, and I also kind of liked the boss battle Vs. the IG-88 droid. But it all comes together to an uneven, messy kind of thing. Some levels seem to go on forever, and others are over in less than two minutes. And if this was supposed to be some kind of cinematic experience, the story is really just kind of like "Oh, which parts of the Star Wars trilogy can we use to make some levels out of. and let's have a carbon copy of Han Solo as the protagonist, because Star Wars." Overall the best and most cohesive part of the experience are the sounds and the music. Those really elevate the crappy, uneven parts. To summarize, if you're a Star Wars fan, you can get this game here on sale and play it through once, but there's really better ones to spend your time with. And I really wouldn't wanna play this with an awkward controller, either.
It's pretty much Defender, underwater, with cartoon graphics and cats. So, in other words, Defender is now obsolete.
