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| | | An American dude made a first-person Unreal engine hack-n-slash, with the gimmick that your character is blind so they only see by echolocation, which in practice means things that make noise are visible in a dark-lit flat-shaded glowy way that is kind of neat, but also if you stop moving (no footsteps) it gets real dark which is sort of annoying.
There's no automap through the very boring large square dungeon rooms that are almost always bigger than your echolocation range so it feels really easy to get lost like immediately which is not a feeling I love. You can sort of backtrack along glowing footprints you leave on the ground (?) but they didn't seem to be there sometimes so I dunno, maybe I was just more lost than I thought.
Combat goes: you slash, they slash. Pretty slow and boring and easy, the challenge being you don't bother dodging because it's too slow and boring. Forgot to try the crossbow. : P
Haven't tried mouse and keyboard gaming in forever and my dumb old mouse shoulder didn't seem to appreciate it, dang. Tried to switch to controller but the game didn't recognize my DS4 at all, even though Windows did and even though PS4 controller is one of the game's two controller settings and I had it to set to that (also tried the Xbox setting just in case).
Could go and get the PS4 version that just came out but on second thought the gameplay isn't making me want to try more; from videos it looks like "more" amounts to more mazelike dark stages and samey combat and then deadly traps and jumping puzzles.
It runs super smooth and has a neat look and doesn't make that weird loud blood-splooshy sound that most 3D swordy games and soulslikes seem compelled to make all the time and I've kind of been wanting a good 1st person swordy game since Dark and Darker was hyping up Twitch for a minute, but I guess this isn't gonna be it for me. |
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| | | I played it for at least 10 minutes but Steam only counted 2, maybe because I ran it mostly from a copy of the shortcut in the steamapps folder, rather than the funky "internet" shortcut Steam put on my desktop.
My old shoulder also isn't crazy about game controllers either but it was pretty annoyed after a short time on this with the mouse so eh hm. |
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