Sehr solide! Cooler Artstyle, sehr kreative Levels und nette Atmosphäre

Erfindet das Genre nicht neu und gegen Ende merkt man leider dass die Levels nachträglich geadded wurden, da sie storytechnisch komplett zusammenhangslos hintereinandergesetzt werden, aber für einen Boomer Shooter hat es die perfekte Länge und genug visuelle Abwechslung um nicht zu nerven

Lief okay auf dem Steamdeck

7/10

Rating: ★★★★★ - Amazing
Time Played: 9.1 hours
Difficulty: Normal

Gameplay:
• Fast-paced Boomer Shooter with an emphasis on creative Lovecraftian weaponry and frantic combat similar to Doom Eternal.
• Fluid controls and satisfying gunplay; most weapons feel impactful and fun to use.
• The insanity meter mechanic adds a unique layer to combat, though I personally preferred the passive abilities.
• Varied level design balances chaotic encounters (some claustrophobic) with moments to catch your breath.

Story/Dialogue:
• The Lovecraftian-inspired narrative is engaging but doesn’t take itself too seriously, fitting the pulpy horror aesthetic.
• Internal Monologue that complements the action without slowing it down, though the story isn't the main focus and the dialogue can come across as cheesy.
• The overall tone of the game blends dark humour with eerie vibes, keeping it entertaining.

Graphics/Music:
• Striking hand-drawn comic book art style that stands out and adds to the surreal, horror-laden atmosphere.
• Environments are dripping with personality, though some textures can feel overused.
• The soundtrack is adrenaline-pumping, blending heavy metal with eerie undertones. So good that I've gone out of my way to purchase.
• Sound effects, especially weapon sounds, are punchy and add to the immersion.

Before you Play:
• This game is just as good as the first one. Feel free to get both.
• Don’t be afraid to experiment with different weapons; There are some weapon variants that are better than others to take down each enemy.
• Look out for secret\hidden areas; they often have health, ammo, or tokens (used for buying weapon variants).
• Keep moving during combat; staying still is a quick way to get overwhelmed.

Really cool game, a lot of improvements from the first! Great atmosphere during all the game

Also, ♥♥♥♥ the pyramid level with all its levers, this was just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Unfortunately, this one misses the mark for me. It starts of really good, the gunplay is way better than in one. But it feels worse and worse with every stage. Enemy design, with few exceptions, is full of purely annoying pests. These pests for some reason hit like an elephant. The gameplay feels like Doom, but with faster and stronger projectiles, without proper tools to avoid them which forces you to spam the only tool you don't have in doom - jumping. Weapon variants, while fun, feel more restrictive than liberating. They also decided to butcher the abilities. You have dozens of upgrades, passive and active - and you can choose only 3. Total. 3 active = 0 passive upgrades and vice versa. A lot of baffling decisions in later level designs too.

The sound design's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good though. And the shooting itself is incredibly solid

I was really looking forward to this after having played the first, but it's inferior in so many ways that it feels like a downgrade. Rather th an building on the core features of the first game and then adding more (like Doom Eternal), this game decided instead to strip down a lot of what made the first game fun, add some tedium mechanics (the clocks), and really make you feel significantly less powerful than you did in the first game.

- I like that they're focusing more on the story, but this has come at the cost of gameplay.
- The gameplay is so much slower than the first. Your move speed is much slower, bullets move slower, enemies move slower, etc. It can hardly be called "fast paced" when the first game was so much faster.
- In the first game, health pick ups were abundant enough that you would be able to reasonably make it through levels without it feeling too easy or too hard. In the second (this one), Health pickups are so sparse that even normal mode runs start to feel like an exercise in madness. I'm in the middle of an expert run on the first game, and I'm having an easier time not dying there than I am here. And when I do die in the first game, the levels are smaller, with save points in good places, so not much progress is lost. I will not be doing an expert run on this game.
- Speaking of level design and save points, the save system has changed from having save points in the game to having checkpoints and anywhere-anytime quicksaves. This shift may sound good on paper, but clearly it eliminated the need for clever level design. Instead of running through the halls killing enemies along the way, with the occasional set piece and save point thrown in, you're now going from set piece to setpiece to loaded arena, with very sparse health pick ups anywhere. You had better remember to quicksave after every combat encounter, or you're likely to be sent back to the beginning of the level, because checkpoints are often too far apart.
- Occasionally you'll be put into an arena with dozens of enemies that all have ranged attacks, or it's dark and you don't have time to charge your flashlight, etc. On the surface, these can be fun... if you enter them with full health and ammo. Which you rarely will, and often you'll be entering them with less than half health if you weren't perfectly careful in the areas leading up to the arena. To compound the issue, often there are no health pick ups, only one armor pick up before the arena.
- The card system, while a cool idea on the surface, is just not great. You get lots of cards, but you can only use so many at a time. I imagine this was to encourage creativity, but with the rest of the game design, really only "the best build" is encouraged.
- The first game had a madness system where you would deal more damage the more enemies you hurt, but this game has no such system. Why? This game would have benefitted from one, especially in those godawful 3-dozen-enemy-all-at-once-with-no-health arenas.
- The gun variants feel more like clunky sidegrades than they do upgrades, unlike in the first where they were honest-to-god upgrades from their base weapon.
- Speaking of weapons, what was the thought process behind deciding to have much smaller ammo reserves, with absolutely no ammo upgrades (except maybe in cards)? Complete downgrade from the first game.
- Half your time on levels will be spent looking for clocks. This is a baffling change from the previous game, as they seemingly add nothing except a target to occasionally waste ammo on (many of them are outside melee range).
- The flashlight is dumb. It takes too long to charge up, and it dies too fast. The passive card upgrade for it is better spent elsewhere. I've died so many times because my flashlight has gone out and I don't have time to recharge it so I can actually see the enemies I'm getting killed by.

There's a fun game underneath all the glaring problems, but it's up to you whether it's worth finding. If you're going to buy it, buy it on sale.

I can only hope that some of the glaring issues get solved by the devs.

it good

10 Ктулху из 10

This game is absolutely epic.
Artwork is as crazy as pics show, just remarkable.

The combat feels pretty smooth, I also really enjoy the music and the cool inner dialogues. Cant believe it took me this long to get it.

Recommended!

THIS GAME SUCKS

mhmm