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幸運は勇敢な者を好む

Half stars are for cowards.
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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

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Dragon Quest
Dragon Quest

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Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel
Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel

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Hexen: Beyond Heretic
Hexen: Beyond Heretic

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Carrier
Carrier

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Some great ideas realised fully and some great ideas that don't quite land, but a game full of great ideas nonetheless. A game that requires you to meet it on its own terms and it won't surprise me to find out that a lot of people simply can't do that - hell, I bounced off it hard upon its original release and only just got around to pushing through to the end of it.

If you can, you'll find a game that manages to feel truly unique due to the way it forces you to accept consequence and make concrete choices or by the way you can try to circumnavigate these to get your desired outcome. Just be prepared for a bit of a slog during the first half of the adventure whilst you get a true foothold in the world.

Also - that is SOME final act, isn't it?

Three more Hexen levels - two belters that are as good as the best stuff in the base game and one that is much more combat focused and, as a consequence, not so hot. Each one will take you about an hour and feature some cool moments. Worth a punt if you need more Hexen in your life.

An at times inexplicably complex series of switch hunts and I fucking love it.

Personally think a lot of the heat this game gets is parrotted from retro YouTubers who expected medieval Doom and got this slow, exploration-based and melee-heavy FPS. I enjoy having to explore every nook and cranny. I think the whole 'critical path is occasionally hidden behind secret walls' is overblown because the handful that are necessary are really bloody obvious. The only real criticism I think holds water is that the first hub is not only the worst, but also the most complex and least well explained, so in terms of putting it's best foot forward, Hexen stumbles out of the blocks AND pisses all over itself.

Good atmosphere, a nice sense of IMPACT to all the melee hits and some really cool tricks performed by the Doom engine put the polish on what I think is a bit of a strangely maligned title.