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excited to never make progress bc i keep playing MMOs
excited to never make progress bc i keep playing MMOs
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NOTE: only played the demo
i am obsessed with the aesthetics and the level design, they remind me of a ps1-era game but upscaled to the modern day, which is great.
however! i really dislike how it's basically just guns with fantasy skins. the melee-looking weapons are just guns. the staves are guns. everything is guns. the ammo is called "mana", but again, it's just guns.
there doesn't seem to be any depth or complexity to the combat, either. weapon-swapping is too slow to set up anything interesting, there're no environmental interactibles, no powerups, no alternative movement aside from a slow crouch and a toggle walk...
there's nothing to do except shoot folks with your not-guns, and even that feels meh. strafe and spam, all day long, nothing else.
i am obsessed with the aesthetics and the level design, they remind me of a ps1-era game but upscaled to the modern day, which is great.
however! i really dislike how it's basically just guns with fantasy skins. the melee-looking weapons are just guns. the staves are guns. everything is guns. the ammo is called "mana", but again, it's just guns.
there doesn't seem to be any depth or complexity to the combat, either. weapon-swapping is too slow to set up anything interesting, there're no environmental interactibles, no powerups, no alternative movement aside from a slow crouch and a toggle walk...
there's nothing to do except shoot folks with your not-guns, and even that feels meh. strafe and spam, all day long, nothing else.
so the full game is definitely worth playing and does a lot of unique, fun things with the format.......but the meta-story does not always land, it can feel intrusive, and--way too often--outright silly
i'd recommend it, but i'd say that you need to have some tolerance for cringe - and that, while the gameplay is fun, the story will actively prevent you from enjoying it in a way that feels intentional but is still really annoying
i'd recommend it, but i'd say that you need to have some tolerance for cringe - and that, while the gameplay is fun, the story will actively prevent you from enjoying it in a way that feels intentional but is still really annoying