Beat on Easy because I was at a point in my life where I just wanted to shoot Nazis with ease and didn't have to worry about them gaining the upper hand. Remembering what the climate was like for FPS games in 2014 is wild because Wolfenstein feels like it had to have been the best FPS of the year but IIRC, no one talked about it until months after it came out.

Wolfenstein is a weird-ass series that no one cares about even though a majority of its entries have been (supposedly) decent. I liked this one enough to play through the entire thing but I couldn't see myself doing another run. Fun Hollywood plot, solid shooting, plenty of inventive weapons.

holy shit this game is bad.

i knew nothing about this going into it outside of the aesthetics and the Devolver Digital stamp on it. and because im an indie shill, i was very interested. thanks to unreal, i got it for free!

and thank god! this game is a piece of shit! which is a shame, because the prologue had me genuinely interested. the whole "KILL YOU" stuff was definitely edgy, but i didn't mind at first. paired with the visuals and music, i thought the whole aesthetic was great at first.

which i guess i should start with the positives, since there are very few. the visuals - on occasion - can look great. other times, they can look kinda bad, but we're being positive right now. the music, also, bangs throughout the entire game. some genuinely great shit in there and i feel pity for the artists involved.

thats it. thats everything good about ruiner. back on topic here, the visuals sometimes look like total garbage. mostly in gameplay, since everything blends in with everything else. everything important is so small and the same shade of neon as everything else that its near impossible to interpret enemies from cubes.

not that it fucking matters, since fighting enemies is a gamble. sometimes you hit them. sometimes they die. sometimes they just dont. sometimes they use one of their thirty-nine "i dont want to get hit anymore" moves. sometimes they hit you back. sometimes you die in one hit. sometimes you dont. its an inconsistent mess that never feels cool, or challenging, it just feels like rolling dice. the most effective way to tackle encounters is just run up to people with a sword and mash the attack button until everything falls down. until the end, when suddenly guns actually do damage again. until the VERY end, when nothing works. im genuinely curious what i was supposed to do in some of those combat encounters because sometimes everything would take a thousand hits and sometimes i'd kill one guy and get an S rank.

granted, i didnt use the special abilities much, because theyre all useless. all of them. combat is such a clusterfuck as it is, so adding on my own clusterfuck seems counter-intuitive. i mainly focused on the ability to heal myself using energy, which also doesnt work. you regain health at roughly the same speed i stopped liking this game and sometimes it feels like you lose health faster when you activate the ability. again, health is just a coin toss. either you have it or you dont, or you kind of have it, or you dont again, or you cant lose it. i felt like a fuckup on the last mini-boss but according to the game i didnt lose a drop.

and back on the topic of being edgy: holy fuck. this is one of the worst written games ive ever played. the plot is so embarrassing i genuinely thought it was a joke, but no. its the most standard, predictable, boring story ever told in the most generic cyberpunk setting yet created. every character talks like what an angsty teenager thinks is cool, using constant vulgarity and spouting the most cringe-inducing lines about how "usually, im the last thing you ever see... you must not be such a piece of shit after all if im the blade that takes your soul..." fucking abominable.

this game was made by what claims to be professional game developers in their bio, but ends up feeling like a game made by a bunch of amateurs with an overinflated budget. its an embarrassment, and a damn shame that it had to taint Devolver's name.

theres very little thats redeemable about this game. the asian girl takes her pants off if you get an S rank so i guess the game is alright, actually. yeah that was a pretty good game now that i think abou