If you love the show, you will like, maybe even love the game. It's short and sweet. That's a plus for me, but maybe a negative for you. The art design is flawless. It looks like they took the characters right from the cartoon, upscaled them and put them in the game. It feels like you're Grendizer, in all his over powered self. You kick ass, just like in the show. It's pretty easy, but gives you that "I'm Grendizer" power fantasy. I skipped the DLC, as I've read it's extremely short. The main game has I think 7 areas, and this is an 8th DLC area, which I read is about half as long as the regular areas. My video card is pretty good, but it dips playing this game. The game is pretty poorly optimized, but if you got a beefy PC you should be just fine, just know you won't get that flawless performance you'll be expecting. It's 100% enjoyable though, at least for me. You know yourself. Are you here because you remember watching Grendizer as a kid, and can't believe they revived the property 50 years later with a game? Then get your butt in here and kill some aliens. It's fun, it's easy, and you can beat it in a week playing an hour or so a day. If you have no idea what Grendizer is, the game might not tickle your fancy. So in closing. Perfectly executed fan service. Short. Easy. Just plain fun to stomp through.
I saw this game and thought I was going to find a new love. I really enjoy more obscure RPGs with interesting systems, which this game seems to have. Well before I can really get into the game and start enjoying it, it just wrecks me. I'm fine w/ hard games, but this one just doesn't seem fair. You get into fights w/ upwards of 3 guys at once. All attacking you together at once. It's nearly impossible to dodge/parry all the attacks and not take damage. The game focuses on taking only 4 items into each battle, so at most 4 potions. It just feels like your range is short and enemies can easilly attack through your attack animations most of the time. So you'll be trying to parry a guy while 2 other dudes are swinging on you like crazy and a 4th is just showing 100% accuracy arrows into you. To get a better view of the area you wanna play farther away, but playing zoomed out makes it hard to see the split second animation times you need to hit, so you end up fighting zoomed in a lot. I'm going to try putting a few more hours in to see if I can push through the beginning that just shits on your face, but I'm not hopful. I hope the devs read this and tone it down a bit. The game as a whole seems really interesting. What an idea! The execution of the combat mechanics leaves me super bummed. You just get rushed by 4 guys, each swinging like crazy from all sides and the game is like "ok now perfect parry/dodge 3 sequential attacks in a span of 3 seconds. I can put up w/ mildly janky combat. Outward is my favorite game of the last few years, the combat is not perfect but it's unique and fun. I was hoping this would be "unique and fun" It's unique, but it ain't fun.
This game is really interesting because of the amount of options you have for making your chacter. I've made a bird man with a beak, wings, claw feet, that breathed fire from his face. I've made a 3 legged axe wielding hairy mutant with an evil twin from another dimension. I've made a psychic warrior who controls animals and rips apart the minds of his enemies. The game is super hard, but if you play a little while you start to figure it out through doing and get better and better. The shorted game I ever had was 7 turns. My evil twin spawned in the starting area, psychicly attacked me on the first turn. I survived the attack, but in suffering the abuse I got a nose bleed. I died from the nose bleed on turn 7. It's a really cool game.
I can't say enough about how much fun I've had playing Kenshi. I was in a reddit post where I said I love RPGs, and RTS games... someone suggested Kenshi to me. I had never heard of it. It looked interesting enough so I jumped in pretty much blind. I had so much fun simply organically learning this game. Do yourself a favor and don't over research this game. Just jump in if you think it looks fun to you. It's what I would call... an open world sandbox Fallout aesthetic RPG RTS. You can play the game anyway you want though, so if you wanted to just play as a single character, your hero, you can feel free to do that as well. However I feel the game really shines when you start your team of guys. The game stayed super fresh for a long time for me because the gameplay loop keeps changing as I learned new things to do, and grew as a character/player. At first my character was as weak as a baby bird.... a hungry baby bird. So I mined some stuff and sold it for food... but that was too dull for my adventuresome self.... So I started to steal. I was stealing weapons, and running over and selling them at the adjacent town. I was making money, I was building athletics and strength running... while avoiding bandits and monsters. Finally I could afford a small house in town w/ my ill gotten gains, so I started researching things Then I started saving up to build what settlement buildings, but I needed a crew. I spent a few days traveling, exploring the world to find a crew to join me. Then I started my first city... I'm aimless at this point... but I know I want to stand on my own in the wilderness... but then I meet them. The Holy Empire... religious zealots who want to enslave other races to serve their god. I know my purpose now. I know they must die. So I trained my martial arts until I could kick their FUCKING ARMS OFF. I haven't been able to overthrow their cities yet... but I will.
I remember wanting this game so badly in the 90s. I played the Demo over and over again. Then over the last 20 years I slowly forgot about it. Then when I saw it on GOG it all came rushing back, and I jumped at the chance to play the game I desired so long ago. Like the title says, it holds up very well! They have made it nice and smooth for mouse and keyboard controls by default, set up to the modern standard. It has a fun semi-nonliniar story in a small open world style. Yes it's an old game, so the areas are very small, but the level design is interesting, and never so cryptic that I got stuck for very long when looking for the next switch/boss/story event. The game has some lovely gore and sci-fi setting. I played the whole thing start to finish and I was happy the whole time. Recommended.
