I had initially heard this game pitched as "Left 4 Dead but with a Warhammer fantasy coat of paint" and it is extremely that. I never played much Left 4 Dead because I never had a consistent group to play with but it was generally fun and, hey, guess what, this is also generally fun.

My one major issue with this is that there seems to be more of a hurdle to getting started and actually understanding everything than there really needs to be? I played as Sienna (the fire mage) and there's some mechanics about her that the game just simply doesn't explain. Intricacies for how particular skills or interactions work, whole mechanics and systems, things just go unexplained and it's left up to you to learn them via trial and error or to look them up outside of the game. I dunno, I think that, at the very least, a game should explain how the character I'm playing as works.

Also, this is a bit more of a pet peeve for me, but the first thing that happened when I completed the tutorial is that the real money shop guy beckoned me over to advertise expensive cosmetics to me and, like, at least wait until I play the game a bit. I know this is just sort of a 'modern video game monetization' thing but come on.

Might return to this in the future but have to shelve it for now because my computer is too old to keep the framerate at a playable state when there's a big horde of things attacking.

Reviewed on Nov 05, 2022


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