I have completed the game a second time now (after abandoning my nightmare run in 2022) and it remains one of the absolutely best first person shooters out there. The weapons, the enemies, the sounds and music, as well as the art design are just incredible. I even enjoyed the plot and lore of the game. The only enemy I do not enjoy fighting is the Marauder (the one with the reflective shield, shotgun and dog) . I get that this enemy is supposed to be a challenge as his only purpose is to hunt down the Slayer, but I feel like they went to far with him. You have to be in a certain range for him to make the attack that gives you the only opening for you to damage him, but this range is not clearly communicated to the player. Get too close and he hits you with his shotgun, go too far away and he summons a dog and shoots projectiles at you. They introduce him in a bossfight and that is where I feel he belongs. But throwing him at the player while there are 25 other demons in the area is what made me drop my nightmare (highest difficutly) run even though I love the thrill of that difficulty. I also have to mention that they did Mick Gordon dirty and people should be fired for that fiasco. Apart from that, this is a great video game and certainly up there among the best games of its genre.
ac_church
11 months ago