Those damn skinwalkers man...
Dusk is my first experience with the classic shooter genre so I can't compare it to its main inspirations or get all the references and tropes the game uses/parodies/subverts, but I still really liked my time with it!
The game tries many different things and the levels feel quite varied because of it, you really get the impression the dev had fun coming up with a lot of it.
Going from claustrophobic horror levels to open levels relying on movement and pure combat is quite fun and keeps the experience fresh. The weapons and enemies compliment well these different styles.
I particularly love those suffocating levels whose intricate design full of shortcuts and secrets reminded me of Thief (with a straight up reference to it in the lab level with the crazy screwed corridor appearing in The Sword)
There is a great sense of scale and atmosphere throughout. Some levels are truly stunning like the lava/snow one or the cathedral. There is beauty to be found among the horror and hopelessness.
Dusk is my first experience with the classic shooter genre so I can't compare it to its main inspirations or get all the references and tropes the game uses/parodies/subverts, but I still really liked my time with it!
The game tries many different things and the levels feel quite varied because of it, you really get the impression the dev had fun coming up with a lot of it.
Going from claustrophobic horror levels to open levels relying on movement and pure combat is quite fun and keeps the experience fresh. The weapons and enemies compliment well these different styles.
I particularly love those suffocating levels whose intricate design full of shortcuts and secrets reminded me of Thief (with a straight up reference to it in the lab level with the crazy screwed corridor appearing in The Sword)
There is a great sense of scale and atmosphere throughout. Some levels are truly stunning like the lava/snow one or the cathedral. There is beauty to be found among the horror and hopelessness.