Recent reviews by L|「𝄞」

TLDR: ALL of the love is in the early game. Like the art style? Like Doom Game Clones? This game is a "retro" aesthetic Doom clone with a lot of heart that dies off as you get to the end of the game. Use this to determine if you want to buy it. Maybe next time they spend less on Troy Baker and more on Make Game Gooder.

All of the love from the designers seems to have been shoved into the front-half of the game. ((SPOILERS FOR THE FINAL LEVEL**: The final level sprawl is quite literally the lobby level from the tutorial, but again. The difference: Wow you can see the 8 enemies from the entire game here now instead of three models! Woo!! This stage was reused so badly to the point they re-use the cinematics FROM the tutorial level for it. And then.........the actual bossfight. Do you guys like Kingdom Hearts for the PLATFORMING? I sure don't. That's what the final boss is. There are two guns you can acquire at a certain point: The levels are designed with the ammo packs/placement pre-determined and unlocked for weapons they assume you'll have...meaning if you get the Asylum weapons there are two other missions you are able to go into and they will simply be unusable once ammunition runs out. Yikes! It's a good thing the chainsaw is useless when running up to dudes kills you anyway. Maybe I'll quickswap to it during a heated fi- Oh. The fists are bound to 1? The weapon you will only use up until you have two guns to manage ammo economy? Weapon keys not rebindable? This got annoying as soon as the shotgun was introduced. Every time I pressed 1 I SEETHED it wasn't the pistol. After the second level I NEVER used them, instead their super cool wow!!!! animation got me shot for the split second I couldn't fix my mistake. The one time I can say controller players have it better (they get a dial menu AND they get to pause the game mid-combat just to switch their guns.) Secrets in the game are beyond lack-luster. If there weren't often schematics hidden at them I'd see no point in seeking them out. I was hopeful the entire game at least one new gun would be hidden and snuck in a random barrel, and I was a fool to assumer such. Half the time you're lucky to get more than 20 coins.... You can really feel the love they put into the game, all up until I'd say four hours in? Enemy variety becomes non-existent after that: You've seen them all (not quite literally but...just about.) They don't even go the route of lazy variant enemies. All-in-all: I had fun. This is an average game. But where it fails it's failing in a way I can feel. Would I recommend it? As someone who doesn't even like spending $20 on a game I end up LOVING, no. Not until a sale happens. I will remain hopeful the DLC adds some flare to the game it began to lack in the end.

Girlfriend liked the game. You hit your target audience well.

Tired, tedious gameplay. You will either feel like you're flowing through without any issue whatsoever, or you will be absolutely overwhelmed. That is the range the AI difficulty has. Frankly I don't see how people had a taste for this ten years ago let alone in 2025. I hope you get all the money you can from the subscription service you snakey f**cks.

The mainline puzzles are challenging enough to give a good of playtime, but not so crazy that someone who doesn't play this sort of game couldn't figure out. While managing that, they also have a whole range of things that weren't required to finish left to be discovered, which is very nice and lends to replayabiity. My girlfriend enjoyed the game and looks forward to the next part.

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4.5/10
Best left to someone looking for a franchise to sink deep into, or pre-existing fans I feel. It lacks a lot of polish you hope for in a world-beloved franchise. The main plot writing is alright enough, but the end payoff has me questioning "I'll have to work with or even once again under these people? Why?" As I know this is a prequel I could've expected as much, but to see the end tally of bodies on each "side" is a tad ridiculous. The game could've been four chapters shorter if PEOPLE would've just stayed put. The side stories when not presented as an accidental cutscene roadblock tended to be enjoyable. The fighting gameplay could be a lot tighter. Provided a decent enough challenge on Hard mode. The minigames are okay enough, and most aren't forced or required for the business side-missions. Overall the game has left me complacent with a longer time between this playthrough and Y1.

Game loop is fun. RNG is the life or death of your run. Eventually you'll learn if a run is lost or not by wave 15.

D0g-p1$s, a$$-sh1t game. Remember when BHopping was fun? And it felt good? Remember when surfing felt good? And consistent? That was in source. We're like three games removed from that. Every single friend I have that plays this game on a regular basis I view as lesser. And the sad truth is despite them spending money on skins, I still own more value in CS2 than them. Try stocks, virgins.

Used to be a good franchise, now they're killing the good games to datamine us in the fourth one.