At the halfway point of my playthrough for this game I was totally ready to drop the same name pun that everyone else has and damn it to eternal abandonment but after sticking with it till the end, I will say that the game does pick up a bit in the back half with a lot better looking environments and more interesting level design.

It's just a shame that by that point, the game kinda feels numbing to play. You've gotten all the weapons by then, seen all of their super charged soul mode attacks a bunch of times and killed a whole lot of pretty uninteresting enemies hundreds of times and unfortunately that's all there is to it for the rest of the game, it's just the places you get around to killing said dudes is a lot better than the first part of the game.

I also think the Soul Mode mechanic feels a little bit inelegant, the weapon effects are cool but I never felt like I had a good flow with it, like there was never enough enemies in the game to use it constantly and eventually just wasting it on a few enemies and running ahead desperately trying to find other guys. Yeah.

Overall, it's an okay shooter. I think you can do a lot worse than Amid Evil and it does have it's own charm (the way dudes stick to walls after killing them with the Star of Torment weapon is pretty sick) but you can also do a lot better. In an age where 90s style PC shooters are coming out all the time and competition is hot, Amid Evil needs to step itself up so it doesn't become...Amid Other Games In People's Backlogs.

O_O

Edit: i almost forgot to say wow the music SUCKS in this holy shit