bulligan
demo songs: tik tok, work senora
3/10 game
3/10 game
2020
This review contains spoilers
the guy guiding your player character was the VILLAIN..? THE WHOLE TIME???
okay, someone call the game awards. yeah. tell keighley we have a winner.
okay, someone call the game awards. yeah. tell keighley we have a winner.
utterly screaming the lyrics to monster by skillet with my gaming-challenged friends while going up against the final boss has gotta be one of my top 10 favorite memories
2022
the day i finish pentiment is the day i die but dear fucking GOD this is the best writing in anything ever
2022
the greatest work of horror ever (?)
2022
the best thing to happen to 3d platformers since mario odyssey. completely revolutionizes the concept of open world traversal. the absolutely insane ost and exceptional boss battles don't hurt either.
obviously though, this game is unpolished as shit. still definitely worth your time even still, and the product as a whole is very indicative of how talented the folks at sonic team really are. if only they ever got the time they deserved to turn gems like this into masterpieces.
obviously though, this game is unpolished as shit. still definitely worth your time even still, and the product as a whole is very indicative of how talented the folks at sonic team really are. if only they ever got the time they deserved to turn gems like this into masterpieces.
2000
Yeah, Blade is pretty good. Not crazy good, but pretty good.
It suffers from a lack of gameplay variety, inconsistent difficulty scaling, piss-poor boss battles and an unimpressive soundtrack, but the core beat-em-up gameplay here is, in my opinion, fantastic, with a deep, intuitive moveset that works great against a pretty phenomenal set of enemies. Shooting sections are distracting fun, but they lack depth, and feel undercooked.
Honestly, the whole game feels undercooked- It's so short, and by the end, you really start to see why, as the whole thing grinds to a halt and you walk down endless corridors punching the same enemies over and over and over- It just stops being fun. This is a very short game, and its mechanics can't even hold it till the credits.
With more enemies, light platforming, vastly improved boss battles and more varied shooting galleries, this would be an absolute must play in my book. But as is, Blade is really great for about an hour and a half, and then starts to get really, really dull. And I haven't even mentioned the difficulty spikes, this game can get absolutely outrageous sometimes.
But, in conclusion: It's got incredible sprite work, fantastic core gameplay and tons of great ideas, but most of them fall flat or run out of steam. If you're into the GBC, you gotta try this one, but there's pretty little reason to stick through to the end.
It suffers from a lack of gameplay variety, inconsistent difficulty scaling, piss-poor boss battles and an unimpressive soundtrack, but the core beat-em-up gameplay here is, in my opinion, fantastic, with a deep, intuitive moveset that works great against a pretty phenomenal set of enemies. Shooting sections are distracting fun, but they lack depth, and feel undercooked.
Honestly, the whole game feels undercooked- It's so short, and by the end, you really start to see why, as the whole thing grinds to a halt and you walk down endless corridors punching the same enemies over and over and over- It just stops being fun. This is a very short game, and its mechanics can't even hold it till the credits.
With more enemies, light platforming, vastly improved boss battles and more varied shooting galleries, this would be an absolute must play in my book. But as is, Blade is really great for about an hour and a half, and then starts to get really, really dull. And I haven't even mentioned the difficulty spikes, this game can get absolutely outrageous sometimes.
But, in conclusion: It's got incredible sprite work, fantastic core gameplay and tons of great ideas, but most of them fall flat or run out of steam. If you're into the GBC, you gotta try this one, but there's pretty little reason to stick through to the end.
A half star for the neat graphics and some mildly impressive ambient sound design, with some funny voice lines, bird noises and the such: I like that.
But in totality, I would not even call Deer Hunter on the GBC a game, because it hardly has a gameplay loop. You have experienced the full scope of the game once you kill a single deer. I am not joking. All customization is pointless, the different levels are just a difficulty select. There is one way to kill deer. There are no rewards for killing deer. Just kill deer. Spoilers: You do it by aiming the gun and pressing the A button after you rub a tree long enough for a deer to walk over to your general vicinity.
But in totality, I would not even call Deer Hunter on the GBC a game, because it hardly has a gameplay loop. You have experienced the full scope of the game once you kill a single deer. I am not joking. All customization is pointless, the different levels are just a difficulty select. There is one way to kill deer. There are no rewards for killing deer. Just kill deer. Spoilers: You do it by aiming the gun and pressing the A button after you rub a tree long enough for a deer to walk over to your general vicinity.