Poser_ghost
2014
As a twin stick shooter, you can do better. The ZX spectrum limitations don't do this game any favours. On the other hand, as a piece of new-wave science fiction this feels phenomenally deranged. It's straining against its self imposed limitations in the best ways. It's obtuse to the point of being hostile. I can't recommend it enough.
2015
It's fitting, in my mind, that a game about the cold loneliness of space is as obscure as this. In a meta sense, the limited community documentation surrounding the game keeps your knowledge of the game as ambiguous as the protagonists reference point for the world they explore.
Yet I'm not too sure how well it does in exploring it. The randomly generated events reoccur far too often for the most haunting ones to stay disquieting. The relaxing quality of the barebone mechanics grinds against how quickly action needs to be taken when something goes wrong. The final encounters are interesting experiments that boil down to trial and error.
Years later, I haven't forgotten my time with this game, but I struggle to think of who I could honestly recommend it to.
Yet I'm not too sure how well it does in exploring it. The randomly generated events reoccur far too often for the most haunting ones to stay disquieting. The relaxing quality of the barebone mechanics grinds against how quickly action needs to be taken when something goes wrong. The final encounters are interesting experiments that boil down to trial and error.
Years later, I haven't forgotten my time with this game, but I struggle to think of who I could honestly recommend it to.
2016
In my head, I know this game is just a fine, neat little thing. But listen to me. Listen. I love what this game does with my whole heart. I love the ambient world building & barebones story. I love the technicolour gore & how mechanics revolve around decapitation & consumption. I love how well exploration & combat are handled even if both those mechanics are pretty standard if not basic. This scartches an itch in my brain like nothing else has, & I'm very happy
2011
This review contains spoilers
Picked this up from a pharmacy in 2022 for like $10.
There's this sidequest involving prisoners getting assassinated. Part way through, an ally asks: "You know these are the bad guys, right?"
It's a callous comment; a display of a complete lack of empathy for the people lockes in either Arkham or Black Gate who deserve to confined with human decency if they are to be confined at all. But Batman responds that the prisoners being assassniated are political. As if criminality ought to just damn a person to being canon fodder a wasteland like Arkham City.
The gliding challenges are fun tho
There's this sidequest involving prisoners getting assassinated. Part way through, an ally asks: "You know these are the bad guys, right?"
It's a callous comment; a display of a complete lack of empathy for the people lockes in either Arkham or Black Gate who deserve to confined with human decency if they are to be confined at all. But Batman responds that the prisoners being assassniated are political. As if criminality ought to just damn a person to being canon fodder a wasteland like Arkham City.
The gliding challenges are fun tho