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I reached 3rd job in 3 hours.


In 2005 it took 3 years.

Incredible. A very intuitive level design, it's as if the levels speak to you without needing dialogue. Definitely the best platformer I've ever played, wrapped up in a succinct package. Beautiful effects and smooth, snappy animations. Which is needed considering this is one of those pixel precision platformers. It will frustrate you, sometimes it feels like a level will challenge you for too long, or you will get right to the end of a room segment and suddenly die to a miscellaneous obstacle that wasn't even part of the main platforming challenge, then have to restart from the beginning of the section. Often a dash won't go in the direction you intended and you will die needlessly, which is common because there are many sections that rely on diagonal dashing, then suddenly you dash horizontally or vertically into death.

It's more than worth it though, the story is simple but life affirming and encourages discussion of mental health, the visuals and particle effects are great, the soundtrack is wonderful and engaging, even the controllers rumble feature is integrated well. It rumbles on every dash and adds a layer of player satisfaction when pulling off a complicated sequence of platforming. Honestly at some point you can't even call it platforming since half of the game you will spend suspended in midair for entire sections, And that just makes it even better. This game has a way of making the player feel like a speed-runner as you often have to learn the exact sequence of moves for getting through certain rooms with certain timings for each one, making a successful run feel extremely smooth and satisfying when executing after minutes of trial and error, with slight adjustments and new things learned upon every death.

very easy

Significantly more vent crawling sections with a higher reliance on headcrab attacks than the other titles, this is much more of a '4 extra chapters of the first half of the original game than a standalone sequel like opposing force'. It's best feature is making a quicker and more streamlined Xen level and having its story be from the perspective of a Black Mesa guard, Retconned as Barney Calhoun. You can absolutely skip this one, and I highly recommend NOT playing on hard, but it is short and sometimes enjoyable regardless, the problem is some sections significantly spike in difficultly more than others. It adds no new weapons and doesn't even give you the alien weapons despite having to fight them for the entire game as much as Shephard or Freeman did.

Often you will be thrown into sections where you have to fight 27 marines all at once, but sometimes you can just skip these and run right through, and you'd probably be better off for doing it. Half of the game I was just skipping tedious battles and sections, even at the end where I had the opportunity to fight marines, I just ran straight to the portal to end the game because I wanted to get it over with.

The only part I can really compliment is the remixed and remastered background music tracks inspired by the original game, (you could also argue its just nostalgia-bait, which it also is) And the graphics. The character creation is fun and much more expressive with a 3D model as your avatar compared to a 2D sprite. However the positives really do end there. The cutscenes are long, bloated and unnecessary, finishing a cutscene rewards you with more cutscenes. So far the game is easy as pie, you can just spam 1 button and your skills are so fast-paced and quickly refreshed that spamming them is extremely inconsequential and enemy fights might as well be cutscenes too as they bring no difficulty to the game. Also during dialoge exchanges, multiple lines of dialogue will be split into separate dialogue boxes when they could have all simply been put into a single paragraph, instead you have to press space 10 times to read 10 sentences by the same person.

There will always be a special place in my heart for the original Pre-Big Bang MapleStory, with its unique and relaxing soundtrack, Party quests, guilds, communities, Boats to Orbis, Free market, Beginner training camp and island... And I'm sure they put similar levels of effort into this game aswell. But it seems they put their energy into the wrong aspects of the game.

Follows the same gameplay as Half-Life but isn't as polished or bug-tested. Within 2 hours I had to not just solve puzzles typical of a half life series game, but I also had to figure out ways around game-breaking glitches while solving those puzzles and juggling the physics and mechanics on top of that.

I'm used to half-life games, but to the new player the physics engine may come as a shock. You move extremely fast. You jump extremely far, and the game puts in little parkour sections so you have to figure out nuanced ways to slow down and turn in mid-air just to not go flying off a cliff at 2000 miles per hour.

There is auto-switch on pickup which has had me killed on multiple occasions. You might unexpectedly pickup a weapon midfight, as you're spamming a box with a wrench and a rocket launcher decides to enter your inventory and you end up shooting a box at point blank range.

To play this, (or any Half-Life game) successfully, you must have the quick-save and quick-load buttons on speed dial, and quite literally: use them about every 7 seconds. Before another obstacle tries to kill you.

Still has a good story, voice acting, more weapons and is a worthy HL Sequel, just frustrating on many levels, maybe even more so than the original game. It's the Majora's Mask of the Half-Life series.

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Post-Completion Edit:

The new perspective, weapons, slight tweaks and NPC control are all enjoyable additions. It really adds to the whole HL experience as a whole to see the military perspective on the incident.

you make my earf

when someone asks where you've been during the corona incident

have you heard of the high elves