I want to love Project Warlock but in its current state it's not working for me. That being said, with some updates I think the game has a lot of potential. Here's the positives. The graphics are top-notch. The sprites are meticulously hand-drawn and each of the episodes has its own style. It's neat to see familiar items such as health packs and keys change over time. The lighting is fantastic as well. The gunplay is the best part of the game. All of the guns feel like they pack a punch and are useful in different situations or against different enemies. All in all, the game is extremely fun to play when it's working well. Here are the negatives. The magic in the game is useless. There's no reason to waste time with spells when the guns do so much damage. The spells are also underwhelming and you have to pick them up as you progress through the game, which sometimes feels like it's too late. There's only one useful spell, the flashlight, and that's because the game is unusually dark. When you upgrade weapons or perks, you can't reroll or undo what you did. This is unusually punishing for players who just want to do one playthrough of the game. For instance, upgrading the shotgun shells to slugs made the shotgun feel useless and it sucked that it's not possible to go back. On another vein, by the end of the game you should have all of the perks as indepedently they're not very good and they don't really do much other than give you more of something per something. For instance, one perk gives you more shotgun ammo per shell pickup, etc. It would have been nice to see something like a vampirism trait where shooting enemies regens health. Idk, something different. Running out of mana means you can't use the most useful spell, the flashlight. So you'll literally be running around in the darkness. The levels don't ALL need to have three keys. The music is absolutely horrible. I wish I could write more. The game has so many flaws. I may do a video on it.
