suuuuuuucks. has aged absolutely terribly, especially when you consider the fact that Super Metroid exists.

an insane psychotic trip through retrofuturistic hackerman renditions of cyberhell mixed with absolutely bonkers SFX and music… and a goddess-empress trans (?) AI antagonist. the gameplay is surprisingly solid by contemporary standards for something which appears superficially to be as outdated as a game can get. but it’s just an FPS metroidvania, in essence. combat can be obnoxious and movement can be weird but it's fine the overwhelming majority of the time.

if i hear one more person say "it's like an OS" or "it's like controlling a tank" im going to stab myself with a Laser Rapier™.

managed to complete it without using a walkthrough. yes my penis is small.

never able to get into this but I appreciate any sim games like this.

completed on hard difficulty. maybe it would of been less grueling on a lower difficulty.

actually bad. as someone who likes their fair share of old games, this one just sucks, mainly due to poor level design, and is only thought to be a masterpiece through the power of social inertia. i'm sure mods make it better, but we aren't reviewing mods.

is there actually any strategy to this or is it pure RNG?

i’ve tried to get into it multiple times, with and without friends, and every time i/we quit after the first quest/boss because it’s so fucking boring and empty.

it's like worse Terraria and Terraria already isn't particularly good.

fairly good but holy shit is this hard.