I paid close to $3 for this and boy is it rough. There’s a great concept in here somewhere but the game was executed in every possible way contrary to it. Despite feeling lukewarm towards it once the escort missions hit, I was determined to see it through.
Unfortunately, a few levels from the end there’s a mission where you have to destroy a battleship after escorting your own through a narrow canyon for about 30 minutes. A narrow canyon where your ship will take the majority of the enemies firepower because it is nearly too big for the area…
The first time I got through it the battleship didn’t spawn so I had to restart thanks to the checkpoint activating there. The second time it did spawn, but its energy core that I was supposed to destroy glitched out, and it kept happening from the checkpoint. I already had an hour and a half or so into this single mission out of about 4 to 5 hours of total playtime, so I decided I wasn’t going to restart it from the beginning for a third time.
If I could, I’d give Dark Void 0 Stars. I normally do not believe in rating things based on numbers but this was such a low effort and so much of a mess that I feel like I am within my rights to quantify the game’s value with those two simple words: Zero Stars.
I mean, seriously, how do you screw up a game set in the Bermuda Triangle with robots being piloted by alien snake-people who have teamed up with Nazis - who use jetpacks during World War 2; which also has Nikola Tesla somehow thrown into the plot for good measure? This answers that.
And yeah, the plot is incoherent, technobabble and nonsense, but you can’t tell me that all those ridiculous elements can’t make for a great gameplay experience. One final thing that irks me is that the game is afraid to outright call the bad guy humans Nazis and instead opts to call them Fascists at every turn; while technically correct, if you’re that uncomfortable with the subject matter to call it by the appropriate name, then you don’t deserve to be covering it.
Unfortunately, a few levels from the end there’s a mission where you have to destroy a battleship after escorting your own through a narrow canyon for about 30 minutes. A narrow canyon where your ship will take the majority of the enemies firepower because it is nearly too big for the area…
The first time I got through it the battleship didn’t spawn so I had to restart thanks to the checkpoint activating there. The second time it did spawn, but its energy core that I was supposed to destroy glitched out, and it kept happening from the checkpoint. I already had an hour and a half or so into this single mission out of about 4 to 5 hours of total playtime, so I decided I wasn’t going to restart it from the beginning for a third time.
If I could, I’d give Dark Void 0 Stars. I normally do not believe in rating things based on numbers but this was such a low effort and so much of a mess that I feel like I am within my rights to quantify the game’s value with those two simple words: Zero Stars.
I mean, seriously, how do you screw up a game set in the Bermuda Triangle with robots being piloted by alien snake-people who have teamed up with Nazis - who use jetpacks during World War 2; which also has Nikola Tesla somehow thrown into the plot for good measure? This answers that.
And yeah, the plot is incoherent, technobabble and nonsense, but you can’t tell me that all those ridiculous elements can’t make for a great gameplay experience. One final thing that irks me is that the game is afraid to outright call the bad guy humans Nazis and instead opts to call them Fascists at every turn; while technically correct, if you’re that uncomfortable with the subject matter to call it by the appropriate name, then you don’t deserve to be covering it.