Pretty much inferior to the first game, which is what I feared. It took me a very long time to finish this game cause i would play a bit, enjoy myself until a certain point, and then get bored out of my mind and not touch the game for a few weeks.
Dark and light world gimmick is stupid and only adds to the egregious count of long loading screens without contributing anything worthwhile to the gameplay. The health depletion is dumb. The fact you get a suit to bypass this depletion only at the END of the game is even dumber, makes every visit to the dark world a chore. It doesnt help that the dark worlds are all made to look the same, it bores you really fast.
The annoying backtracking is back and there is STILL no teleportation possible, so you have to do the whole trek around the map. You'd think the level design would keep this in mind and give some unlockable shortcuts to make your life easier, but the few shortcuts you get don't shorten your travel time by any significant amount. If youre not gonna do the necessary work in level design, just give us a teleport ability. I can forgive the first game for having this issue, but having years to think it through for a sequel and still not fixing one of the major issues of the first game is just incompetence in my eyes.
I personally hated the new limited ammo on beams, restrictions like that just naturally make me more hesitant to experiment with weapons.
I feel I kinda overlooked the bosses in Prime one because combat was obviously not the focus. Having played both games back to back made me notice that the bosses really are a mixed bag of shit in these games, they range from forgettable to highly annoying with some very rare standouts. Maybe becoming more aware of this also made me lose a lot of interest.
For positives I could probably mention them deleting the dumb colorcoded enemies from the first game, although I'm not sure if that was a decision based on their gameplay design being shit, or them just not fitting with the new limited beam ammo system.
In terms of atmosphere it more or less matches Prime 1. Even though Temple Grounds and Agon Wastes are kinda bland, I think Torvus Bog and Sanctuary Fortress make up for them, the latter being most likely my favourite area in the prime series yet.
At this point im not having great expectations from prime 3, but Ill give it a chance I guess since many people seem to think its the best in the series.
Dark and light world gimmick is stupid and only adds to the egregious count of long loading screens without contributing anything worthwhile to the gameplay. The health depletion is dumb. The fact you get a suit to bypass this depletion only at the END of the game is even dumber, makes every visit to the dark world a chore. It doesnt help that the dark worlds are all made to look the same, it bores you really fast.
The annoying backtracking is back and there is STILL no teleportation possible, so you have to do the whole trek around the map. You'd think the level design would keep this in mind and give some unlockable shortcuts to make your life easier, but the few shortcuts you get don't shorten your travel time by any significant amount. If youre not gonna do the necessary work in level design, just give us a teleport ability. I can forgive the first game for having this issue, but having years to think it through for a sequel and still not fixing one of the major issues of the first game is just incompetence in my eyes.
I personally hated the new limited ammo on beams, restrictions like that just naturally make me more hesitant to experiment with weapons.
I feel I kinda overlooked the bosses in Prime one because combat was obviously not the focus. Having played both games back to back made me notice that the bosses really are a mixed bag of shit in these games, they range from forgettable to highly annoying with some very rare standouts. Maybe becoming more aware of this also made me lose a lot of interest.
For positives I could probably mention them deleting the dumb colorcoded enemies from the first game, although I'm not sure if that was a decision based on their gameplay design being shit, or them just not fitting with the new limited beam ammo system.
In terms of atmosphere it more or less matches Prime 1. Even though Temple Grounds and Agon Wastes are kinda bland, I think Torvus Bog and Sanctuary Fortress make up for them, the latter being most likely my favourite area in the prime series yet.
At this point im not having great expectations from prime 3, but Ill give it a chance I guess since many people seem to think its the best in the series.