An ambitious combination of first person shooter and Metroid-like backtracking exploration. Only let down by it being such an early rendition of the idea. Its ideas are a bit half baked owing to it being a trailblazer rather than an iterator. I feel like someone revisiting this idea of a run and gun metroidvania could make something truly great today.

But, man, what's here is still pretty darn good. There's really nothing else like it. The Egyptian setting is still unique today, the sprite work still totally beautiful, the core metroidvania-lite design rarely touched on in the FPS genre.

If you play it, play it on normal. The original game didn't have any difficulty settings so the highest ones here were added in just for the port. The game isn't exactly designed around them and the developer doesn't recommend them for a first time player. Go ahead on normal. It's a little breezy, but that's OK. It's really fun to blast apart some mummies and whatnot.