| greenyammo 2005-07-30, 6:30 am |
| I'm on level 2 now and I have the feeling this game is a pile of shit
but I'm not sure.
I can take the control scheme but what I can't take are the loading
times. Every single thing that you do in the game loads something with
an accompanying "whitenoise" screen, it's so irritating.
The direction controls can be figity and the whole idea of ressurecting
your charcaters is repetitive and redundant and topped of by a pointless
button bashing game that you will always win but are forced to sit
through anyway before retracing your footsteps for a third time. Having
TWO death screens (one which loads) when you lose just one life!?! The
wobbly text that is annoying to read, the fact that you can't invert the
control in game, the list of irritants is endless. For a game that
prides it's self on it's style it is so lacklustre in the most basic
departments.
This game is like playing a really simple RPG (or reading one) with a
basic target game thrown in. There is hardly a game here at all, the
puzzles are easy, the first candlestick puzzle has four hints (two of
which are on the actual stick it's self). Conversely whilst shooting you
can lose all your energy in the blink of an eye just because you forgot
to reload earlier.
Yet, It's completely strange and beguiling and I want to see more. It's
honestly one of the oddest things I have had the horror of playing and
the design work is incredible. It's like a madman was in charge of every
aspect of the production. My guess is somebody was coked out of their
mind solidly for three years, that would explain the delays as well.
But what I want to ask is : Is it just more of the same as the game
progresses or do you get to make any sense of what is going on? I can
put up with this if it is going somewhere. I am intrigued.
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