This is a short but sweet Build-engine inspired FPS that oozes 90's. As in...your melee weapon is literally that damned S everyone drew on their notebooks or sharpied in on school playground equipment. Your character hurls out one liners and insults like a certain Nukem, but they're all as hilariously juvenile as you can get. "Oh yeah, I got it on with your mom!", "You smell like turds. Well, would have...because you're dead!"
If you don't mind crude humor (or, in my case, still get a chuckle out of this kind of garbage at nearly 30 years old) and a handful of those classic "where the fuck do I go?" sections these games were notorious for, then this is a great time. Not sure if I'd put it above Cultic or Dusk, but I don't regret spending four hours clearing it with xbox game pass.
If you don't mind crude humor (or, in my case, still get a chuckle out of this kind of garbage at nearly 30 years old) and a handful of those classic "where the fuck do I go?" sections these games were notorious for, then this is a great time. Not sure if I'd put it above Cultic or Dusk, but I don't regret spending four hours clearing it with xbox game pass.
Very over the top and silly, but still has a pretty fun gameplay loop and a unique lineup of weapons! The shorter length was actually a positive for me, but it sucked how much I felt like I was slogging through the end at times.
Some of the Easter Eggs are also pretty interesting from a "world-building/character-building" sense. It would've been really easy to just fully caricaturize Zane, but there's moments where some (minor) depth is shown. His appreciation for his mother, the frustrated note from his friend who codeveloped, and other small touches.
Some of the Easter Eggs are also pretty interesting from a "world-building/character-building" sense. It would've been really easy to just fully caricaturize Zane, but there's moments where some (minor) depth is shown. His appreciation for his mother, the frustrated note from his friend who codeveloped, and other small touches.
I mean yeah it’s silly but it’s a slog towards the end. Also I can’t really complain about this given the fact that I got to play this through gamepass, but MRSP is $17?? For a 4 hour game???? Crazy
great game for the rat fans out there! if i didn't play this through my xbox gamepass trial, i'd definitely do a second playthrough and try to get all the steam achievements
Im not a big Doom guy, it just didnt have that much appeal to me, never really spoke to me. Slayer X's sort of storytelling-first level design, more goofy expressive veneer, and tbh great aesthetic make me want to be a Doom guy. Im feeling the Doomage in me, I could rip and tear hordes of Jezta Aliens. My only real qualm is that I wish this felt less unrelated to Hypnospaces alternate history but were talking peanuts here.
It knows what it's all about and runs with it like a bullet train. No hypnospace enjoyer should pass this one
Aunque me parece que está bien, esperaba que fuera más gracioso y divertido.
Very cool boomer shooter. Enjoyed it alot, got a chuckle outta me here & there. Guns all feel great. Big fan of the visuals, and the music is really solid. Great little fps experience. Always love more unique boomer shooter takes.
Awesome spinoff of Hypnospace Outlaw that's part character study on that game's coolest teen in Teentopia (now a grown man and an indie game dev) and part genuinely fun retro FPS. Might seem like it's irony poisoned on the surface but it's actually got a lot of sincere love and affection for the sort of dude Zane is. This is a game about listening to Limp Bizkit and working at a Dollar Tree as much as it's about blasting giant clown brains with a shotgun that shoots broken glass.
got soft locked because of a glitch and couldn't play the game anymore :(
Really silly concept for a game that also happens to be pretty competent. There were a few times where I fell off the intended path of the levels and wandered for a while. There was a bug in one level where a specific door to end the level never opened and I had to restart. These setbacks inflated my playtime and make me wish the levels were designed a bit better. The game isn't very long overall so it wasn't the end of the world. The werewolf spam got annoying at the end of the game.
Love the cutscenes and the music is way better than I would expect.
Love the cutscenes and the music is way better than I would expect.
OK, this is a boomer shooter clearly inspired by Duke Nukem 3D... As if it was designed by a 90s teenager. And I dig completely with it!
Crazy enemies, big maps, nice gameplay and gorgeous weapons - the glass shotgun is one of the coolest ideas for a gun I've seen in a while. I missed more boss fights, maybe. But the humor, the action and the curse words were there - gorgeous budgety awesome voice overs, indeed. And yes, it's ugly as heck - oh my god those cutscenes - , and it's intended to be like that, but I enjoyed it as a teenager myself.
Crazy enemies, big maps, nice gameplay and gorgeous weapons - the glass shotgun is one of the coolest ideas for a gun I've seen in a while. I missed more boss fights, maybe. But the humor, the action and the curse words were there - gorgeous budgety awesome voice overs, indeed. And yes, it's ugly as heck - oh my god those cutscenes - , and it's intended to be like that, but I enjoyed it as a teenager myself.
I love the aesthetics. It takes me back to being 14 in 1998. Its pretty funny. It is absolutely not fun. I encountered a lot of bugs and it just isnt fun to play.
I would watch a 90 minute movie with that animation and level of voice acting though, brilliant.
I would watch a 90 minute movie with that animation and level of voice acting though, brilliant.
Suggested tagline "Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath - Vengance of the Slayer - It's exactly what you think it is."
Yeah, I mean this is exactly something you'd know whether you'd like or not. Satirical edge to this in just depicting everything in terms of being wicked and awesome but also gross and where everything is surrounded with over-the-top angst and nu-metal music and what not, poor spelling and what not. This captures a very specific mood of what a child would think that a cool teenager would be like and it's just yeah. Very unapologetically stuck in some sort of fantasy realm of adolescence.
Oh also, the gameplay and level design in this are quite good. FPS games just either feel right to you or they don't and this one does, and I also just love how the gore in this is over-the-top but it's stylised in a way where it just doesn't really hit me as being particularly gruesome in any sort of way. Graphics kind of have the same thing as Cruelty Squad did where it's very garish, although this one seems stylistically similar to a mesh between Redneck Rampage and the custom graphics you'd find on a Powerpoint presentation. It's like a mood piece for some sort of nostalgic time period that never really existed, tbh. One thing I will say is that this game is very short. Took me less than four hours to beat it on the hardest difficulty and it's probably got about a shareware's amount of levels in it. People complain about that but then again I'm also old so I'll put it towards "nice and pithy, doesn't overstay its welcome." I guess.
P.S. Someone I'm good friends with was one of the fart sounds in this. They're listed in the end credits of this game. Good luck figuring out who they are. ;)
Yeah, I mean this is exactly something you'd know whether you'd like or not. Satirical edge to this in just depicting everything in terms of being wicked and awesome but also gross and where everything is surrounded with over-the-top angst and nu-metal music and what not, poor spelling and what not. This captures a very specific mood of what a child would think that a cool teenager would be like and it's just yeah. Very unapologetically stuck in some sort of fantasy realm of adolescence.
Oh also, the gameplay and level design in this are quite good. FPS games just either feel right to you or they don't and this one does, and I also just love how the gore in this is over-the-top but it's stylised in a way where it just doesn't really hit me as being particularly gruesome in any sort of way. Graphics kind of have the same thing as Cruelty Squad did where it's very garish, although this one seems stylistically similar to a mesh between Redneck Rampage and the custom graphics you'd find on a Powerpoint presentation. It's like a mood piece for some sort of nostalgic time period that never really existed, tbh. One thing I will say is that this game is very short. Took me less than four hours to beat it on the hardest difficulty and it's probably got about a shareware's amount of levels in it. People complain about that but then again I'm also old so I'll put it towards "nice and pithy, doesn't overstay its welcome." I guess.
P.S. Someone I'm good friends with was one of the fart sounds in this. They're listed in the end credits of this game. Good luck figuring out who they are. ;)
A shooter of it’s time, based on a game from a game it captures the feeling of what you would play at the time. The weapons were fun and the stages were surprisingly big. The humor was spot on for the time and I liked some of the slight nods to Hypnospace Outlaw. If you’re looking for a fun boomer shooter that does not take itself too seriously but kinda does. Check this out.
- The X-blade has a hex blood charge.
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It's like Blood in the Hypnospace universe, and just like Hypnospace this game stands out for it's charisma. It really does feel like a game made by a 14 yo edgy kid with 0 self-consciousness and that is just awesome.
Just playing this in case it's referenced in Dreamsettler
minus half a star cause zane fucked my mom
Immaculate Vibes
Whoa, dude, this is a wild ride of a game. I mean, I can't offer much in terms of emotional support, but it sounds like fans of this game have been through quite the rollercoaster. As for Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath - Vengeance of the Slayer, well, it's probably not gonna help sort out their personal issues. But hey, if you need a distraction, diving into a game might provide a temporary escape. As for a score, I'll give it a solid 5/10 because, well, why not?
Fueled by Sloppo burgers and channeling hack blood energy, our protagonist Zane journeys into becoming the true X-Slayer. He must seek vengance on the Psyko Sindikate who killed his beloved mother. Led by the evil Mevin, Zane's terd-head stepfather who also manages the Dollar$haver and smokes sticky-green.
This game is a portal straight into a late-90s young adolescent's power fantasy, pure unadulterated camp, and it's great.
This game is a portal straight into a late-90s young adolescent's power fantasy, pure unadulterated camp, and it's great.
This review contains spoilers
Pretty fun stuff. Not my fav boomer shooter I've played out of a narrow list, but I really enjoyed it as an expansion of hypnospace lore and its own thing. Making your boss an enemy in your kataklysm mod that you stuck to the designs you made when you were a kid, the chirps from zane about doing enemies' moms while he himself extremely bothered by his boss dating his own mother. There's an easter egg towards the end where the in-universe person who actually made the game because he had promised Zane as a kid pokes fun at him, and it paints a very real pastiche of the life Zane has had, and it makes you feel for him a bit when you get to thinking about it all. He's also a doofus, and the game contains everything funny about the type of dude he is.
The levels were a bit easy to get lost in, especially if you were combing through for secrets and jokes and so on. I expected them to be a bit more dense too, but there were some rich veins for joke delivery alongside
I loved interacting with the rats and "ware"wolf gf with rocket launcher.... Lots of dope secrets... ya this is awesome
The levels were a bit easy to get lost in, especially if you were combing through for secrets and jokes and so on. I expected them to be a bit more dense too, but there were some rich veins for joke delivery alongside
I loved interacting with the rats and "ware"wolf gf with rocket launcher.... Lots of dope secrets... ya this is awesome
THE S BLADE HAS A HACKBLOOD CHARGE. Immortal words for an amazing immortalization of "boomer shooters."
Being honest about my time with this game, I found it to be good as a game, but the real greatness is in the clear craftsmanship and commitment to The Bit. Jay Tholen and Co. really committed in every way you could ever hope for in a memorialization of a genre. And to top it all off? It's frickin' FUNNY. I haven't laughed out loud for real this much in a game since Jazzpunk.
Being honest about my time with this game, I found it to be good as a game, but the real greatness is in the clear craftsmanship and commitment to The Bit. Jay Tholen and Co. really committed in every way you could ever hope for in a memorialization of a genre. And to top it all off? It's frickin' FUNNY. I haven't laughed out loud for real this much in a game since Jazzpunk.
A love letter to dorky flyover state kids making build engine mods of their hometown, made by a professional development team intentionally channeling campy fun. Chock full of charm, creative level design, and doesn't outstay its welcome. Only real complaint is the last two levels feel sort of rushed.
O que? você não gostou desse jogo? Não foi o que sua mãe disse ontem, por que ...... EU SAI COM A SUA MÃE!!!!!!!
-Zane-
-Zane-
RATING: Great
zane is so awezome.........
zane is so awezome.........
I became Da X Slayer
A short and sweet 90's style shooter made by a fictional nu-metal obsessed teenager named Zane, who played a noteworthy role in the brilliant HypnoSpace Outlaw.
This at first can come across as just a "haha isn't it funny how this teen wrote a bad story", but I think the willingness to never wink at the camera alongside giving the player some insight's behind Zane's view of the world and shitty step-dads puts this above just a parody game and becomes a unique experience.
This at first can come across as just a "haha isn't it funny how this teen wrote a bad story", but I think the willingness to never wink at the camera alongside giving the player some insight's behind Zane's view of the world and shitty step-dads puts this above just a parody game and becomes a unique experience.