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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I think the combos were easier on mouse and keyboard but the controller controls were fine too. I don’t remember it super well but wasn’t the secondary attack completely different for some weapons? I don’t think holding primary for secondary attack would work.

    the victory lap you asked for is in there.

    Oh right, that was a thing


  • I played it like a year ago on insane difficulty. Never played the original nor the new doom.

    I really liked the first level where combat is mostly melee and lots of story is happening. Left a very strong first impression. Expected the same pace from the rest so it was disappointing that most of the levels were “We need to reach x location for plot to happen but we telepoted / car broke down too far away so we’ll walk for a couple levels”. Level structure also got stale, there doesn’t need to be an encounter in every room. It would be a much better game if the levels had 1/3rd the encounter count or some levels were merged. I also wish there was a ‘victory lap’ level between the two final bosses so you could use the magical katana you finally obtained.

    I really liked the characters and world building. Business ninja is always a good aesthetic. The banter was nice. Liked Wang being an unapologetic video game protagonist. Magical stuff was fine

    The combat was mixed. Weapon variety was pretty good but the weapons didn’t feel ‘tight’ to use like in half life 2. I switched to controller halfway through and it fit the gunplay better. Kinda wish there was more emphasis on movement and melee but I was satisfied with what was there.

    I didn’t like encounter / enemy design though. The difficulty curve was way too smooth. There are very few enemy types so most encounters are just the same group of enemies you fought 15 minutes ago but with 1 extra foot demon added. And after a while normal encounters start including minibosses too so you need to spend minutes slowly dealing damage to them. There were some encounters that were genuinely challenging and memorable but the vast majority was just walking the marathon and trying not to die in a stupid way. I think it’s fair to describe this as a ‘low skill ceiling’, once you figure out how not to die against each enemy type your progress (at least on insane) is mostly bottlenecked by the dps of your weapons.

    Bosses are a different story. They were insanely difficult on insane (first two took me hours each). Beating them was pretty rewarding.

    When I bought the game on steam it came with viscera cleanup simulator shadow warrior edition, which I played immediately after beating the game. It was a nice change of pace and made me wish the game itself also had more gameplay variety. I would’ve loved more human characters too.

    Don’t really have thoughts on graphics, they were fine maybe a bit too much bloom.

    Numerically I think it’s a 6/10