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Extremely boring and stupidly easy, with dogshit pixel art and an utterly generic world.
The only reason to play this game is nostalgia and nothing else.
The only reason to play this game is nostalgia and nothing else.
1992
It exists.
This was such a genuinely pleasant surprise of a game, the fairy-tale aesthetics makes it so adorable and cozy, and the easy difficulty adds to that comfiness greatly!
The character designs are so distinctive, each character (besides the recolors obviously) has an incredibly distinctive silhouette and are all so wonderfully colourful! They're simplistic in their personalities but I still felt myself caring deeply for them, they're a joy to interact with!
The level environments too are all so distinct and wonderfully created! I ended up playing each level at least thrice from how much I enjoyed them!
The only issue I really had with it is how wordy it can be, it's basically a platformer with the word-count of an RPG, but the dialogue is wonderful to be sure! It just interrupts gameplay really often. It's almost as bad as the gameplay interrupting cutscenes of Max Payne 3 but, obviously due to the different pacing of these two games it's nowhere near a big deal here.
This is such an incredibly easy recommend, I adored my time with it!
The character designs are so distinctive, each character (besides the recolors obviously) has an incredibly distinctive silhouette and are all so wonderfully colourful! They're simplistic in their personalities but I still felt myself caring deeply for them, they're a joy to interact with!
The level environments too are all so distinct and wonderfully created! I ended up playing each level at least thrice from how much I enjoyed them!
The only issue I really had with it is how wordy it can be, it's basically a platformer with the word-count of an RPG, but the dialogue is wonderful to be sure! It just interrupts gameplay really often. It's almost as bad as the gameplay interrupting cutscenes of Max Payne 3 but, obviously due to the different pacing of these two games it's nowhere near a big deal here.
This is such an incredibly easy recommend, I adored my time with it!
1990
I honestly didn't know this game existed before and, looking at the reviews, it certainly seemed like it'd be really rough, but...
Honestly... it's not Awful? It's certainly not good either but it wasn't, Painful.
It looks like a vic-20 game and plays like a PC game in general, it's really odd... but I kinda had fun with the combat and the levels.
The amount of breakable floors that don't look different from regular floors is awful though.
I don't know, I didn't regret spending my time playing this? It's alright.
Honestly... it's not Awful? It's certainly not good either but it wasn't, Painful.
It looks like a vic-20 game and plays like a PC game in general, it's really odd... but I kinda had fun with the combat and the levels.
The amount of breakable floors that don't look different from regular floors is awful though.
I don't know, I didn't regret spending my time playing this? It's alright.
2023
What Obscuregg said.
The only thing good about this game is the genocide route, because you get to kill its awful cast of characters.
The only thing good about this game is the genocide route, because you get to kill its awful cast of characters.
2005
When I think of the era this game released in, and, compare it with the FPSes of its era, like Medal of Honor or Call of Duty, and I think to myself.
"Which of these games would I want to re-play in the current day?"
Honestly...
The answer is obviously F.E.A.R but, this is definitely a top 5 contender!
It's a really fun game! Has a lot of the design philosophies of older shooters like Quake 2 but with a slower pace.
The weapons feel fantastic to use, the enemies are very fun to fight.
The horror aspects of it are incredibly well done!
But god, the dialogue and the story... it's like the game was slated for a T rating and thus there's basically no swearing, whatsoever.
As an example (and, minor spoiler for one of the levels): At one point you go through the under-belly of the Stroggification facility where you see the "Failed" Strogg experiments where they're distracted.
You see those utterly horrifying and disturbing zombified versions of your comrades, discarded as if they were garbage, in a genuinely awful shape, and on the inter-comm one of your buddies goes.
"Woah, those're freaking zombies!"
It sounds like a parody of what you think 90s dialogue is, even though this game was made in the mid-2000s, it's very weird and takes you out of the moment a lot of the time.
Still, very good game! Not as good as the other Quakes but that's a very high bar to try and cross.
I quite like it!
"Which of these games would I want to re-play in the current day?"
Honestly...
The answer is obviously F.E.A.R but, this is definitely a top 5 contender!
It's a really fun game! Has a lot of the design philosophies of older shooters like Quake 2 but with a slower pace.
The weapons feel fantastic to use, the enemies are very fun to fight.
The horror aspects of it are incredibly well done!
But god, the dialogue and the story... it's like the game was slated for a T rating and thus there's basically no swearing, whatsoever.
As an example (and, minor spoiler for one of the levels): At one point you go through the under-belly of the Stroggification facility where you see the "Failed" Strogg experiments where they're distracted.
You see those utterly horrifying and disturbing zombified versions of your comrades, discarded as if they were garbage, in a genuinely awful shape, and on the inter-comm one of your buddies goes.
"Woah, those're freaking zombies!"
It sounds like a parody of what you think 90s dialogue is, even though this game was made in the mid-2000s, it's very weird and takes you out of the moment a lot of the time.
Still, very good game! Not as good as the other Quakes but that's a very high bar to try and cross.
I quite like it!
2023
An incredible remaster of an absolute classic game, with an expansion pack including some of the best FPS levels I've ever played!
The mission based objectives are incredibly unique among its peers, it makes it feel very open-ended and non-linear.
And the visuals are just, so crispy and nice to look at! The strogg look so intimidating despite their low-poly counts.
This remaster is worth buying just for the new expansion honestly, even if you've already played Quake 2 to death, it's just that good!
Adding Quake 2: 64 was also a cute addition!
The mission based objectives are incredibly unique among its peers, it makes it feel very open-ended and non-linear.
And the visuals are just, so crispy and nice to look at! The strogg look so intimidating despite their low-poly counts.
This remaster is worth buying just for the new expansion honestly, even if you've already played Quake 2 to death, it's just that good!
Adding Quake 2: 64 was also a cute addition!
1999
Very Quirky version of Quake 2, basically being its own game or, I guess a side-story to the main game?
Level design is more similar to Doom or other N64 shooters, small closed off levels with limited objectives as opposed to the main Quake 2's sprawling levels.
It's honestly pretty fun for what it is, especially now that you can play through it the Quake 2 Remaster! I don't see why you shouldn't give it a quake romp.
Level design is more similar to Doom or other N64 shooters, small closed off levels with limited objectives as opposed to the main Quake 2's sprawling levels.
It's honestly pretty fun for what it is, especially now that you can play through it the Quake 2 Remaster! I don't see why you shouldn't give it a quake romp.
1996
One of the best first person shooters ever made.
It's influences (and engine) are still felt to this day.
Amazing atmosphere, incredibly fun and intimidating enemy designs, wonderful levels, and great expansions!
I really don't think people talk about how amazing the enemy design in Quake especially is.
A room with 20 monsters in Doom can feel like a cake walk, a room with 5 monsters in Quake is incredibly tough.
I Really adore this game, it's so incredibly fun.
It's influences (and engine) are still felt to this day.
Amazing atmosphere, incredibly fun and intimidating enemy designs, wonderful levels, and great expansions!
I really don't think people talk about how amazing the enemy design in Quake especially is.
A room with 20 monsters in Doom can feel like a cake walk, a room with 5 monsters in Quake is incredibly tough.
I Really adore this game, it's so incredibly fun.
2020
The best of the classic dooms in my opinion.
Excellent level design, creepy atmosphere as a result of the less toony looking artstyle and the really tense music.
I just genuinely adore this game, Absolutely worth a playthrough for anyone even mildly interested in Doom.
Excellent level design, creepy atmosphere as a result of the less toony looking artstyle and the really tense music.
I just genuinely adore this game, Absolutely worth a playthrough for anyone even mildly interested in Doom.
1994
If you like Doom, you'll like this! The level design is much better at the very least.
2019
The level design is arguably rougher than the original Doom, but the variety of enemies the game introduced and the very unique and novel ways they interact with the player opened the floodgates for some genuinely excellent level packs and mods!
There's a reason most people make mods for Doom 2 and not Ultimate Doom.
There's a reason most people make mods for Doom 2 and not Ultimate Doom.
1993
It's an absolute classic but good god is it rough to go back to.
Very uninteresting and easy combat, mazey level design, overly basic visuals and a very lacking Enemy roster.
It's still a game you should absolutely play once in your life but, not much more.
Very uninteresting and easy combat, mazey level design, overly basic visuals and a very lacking Enemy roster.
It's still a game you should absolutely play once in your life but, not much more.
1988
Oh, to be a small British Child playing this game on my amiga 500 after my parents bought me the Batman package.
Jokes aside, this game is incredibly fun. An incredibly solid platformer with very adorable visuals! It is extremely fucking difficult though.
Most versions are very good and worth a try!
Jokes aside, this game is incredibly fun. An incredibly solid platformer with very adorable visuals! It is extremely fucking difficult though.
Most versions are very good and worth a try!
1999
Going from Majin Tensei to this was like being a Victorian era child used to drinking water with Typhoids in it and being given a glass of Mcdonald's Sprite.
Genuinely an amazing Tactics game, with a really fun story of political intrigue and synths, I'd recommend this one to anyone who likes Mechs or Tactical RPGS!
Genuinely an amazing Tactics game, with a really fun story of political intrigue and synths, I'd recommend this one to anyone who likes Mechs or Tactical RPGS!