After the game not being able to update, i reinstalled it and git an error: installation failed (e2) DO SOMETHING GOG, it has been a few months already.
NR is a GOOD game, but nothing more. It is a secondary choice to other retro FPS games. I have been enjoying it very much untill some cracks has started to appear in the gameplay. Here is my list of gripes and grudges: - each level is randomly generated. i admire how exciting they are in spite of this and how long i have been fooled into believing they are NOT random. Fooled indeed because nowhere in the game description you can find that little tidbit. Shouldn't it be written in bold right at the begining developers??? i can not look at the same rooms any more. This is lazy and boring and can NOT beat meticulously crafted levels. - you will be using ONE WEPON ONLY. The most powerful one. And it will be so powerful that using anything else will be a folly. - You can almost always backtrack endlessly out of combat while shooting even the hardest enemies to pieces. Once you realize this simple trick , whole tension of combat dissapears FOREVER. - the maps are small. Even the biggest ones are still very small compared to Quake , Hexen, Doom and offer only 2-4 major fights and encounters per level. More often than not you will be facing single enemies in small rooms. - the achievements list is a ruthless list of spoilers giving you the answers to all possible questions and i regret the very second i gazed upon it. Also it gives you a measure what playing time is expected from you , making it a pure grind rivalring with MMOs. i surely do not see myself playing this game any longer than necessary and surely not as long as to get the highest upper tier of uninspiring achievements (i.e. kill xxx enemies, or sell xxx weapons). - I am very disappointed in music "the great Andrew Hulshult" composed for this game. it is lacking special inspiring spark and is as dull and repetetive as the levels you are playing. Also the range of tracks is laughably small. I would rather have ambient sounds playing without the obnoxious combat guitar track you are hearing for the xxxx time.
Do NOT BUY. this is made by dotemu, they are known for doing the outrageously lazy and bad work. Raiden Legacy is a scam. This can not be called a port or emulation. Real emulated games appearing on japanese playstation 2 and x360 took years of hard work and are extremely difficult to pull off. This game does not resemble or play like the games it is trying to emulate. Once again : we are not talking here small meticulous detail. This release has already been in a broken status on ios and is universaly bashed. Even if you never ever plaid Raiden games , you will be immediately noticing glitch after glitch. Right now the only way of playing these games is buying japanese x360 or an original PCB. Or just play in MAME. There are not perfectly emulated there , as there are sound issues but at least the gameplay itself is faightful. And the best part is... the audio from dotemu is also glitched as in mame, which makes me think ...
