Bright Memory: Infinite is pretty much the final version of what Bright Memory is meant to be. If you bought the latter back when it was still in development, you pretty much get this game for free. You use Sheila, who's pretty much trying to investigate some convergences between worlds, while being pursued by General Lin and his army (what happened to Carter though...). Along the way she has to fight against enemies, whether its General Lin's troops, or some ancient Chinese warriors with strange abilities. She has various guns, each with secondary mode of firing, in addition to her exoarm that is capable of telekinesis, or just being able to land devastating blows. You will collect some orbs and reliquary to upgrade Sheila's weapons and skills, to boost their effectiveness as well.

Unlike Bright Memory, there is a clear Chinese theme here, from the character names, the environment, buildings and even the monsters here, which is pretty much given, as the developers are from China after all. There are also changes to some gameplay here, such as skills having pretty much have no cooldown here, instead they are kind of limited by your exoarm energy, which is a pretty nice change compared to the cooldown present in Bright Memory. Double jump here is done by tapping jump twice, instead of holding jump in Bright Memory. She also can parry attacks, which helps to refill her exoarm energy bar, and replenish ammo as well. Wall run are present in some places for manuevering purposes, albeit not much. Scoring system is no longer present here, and lastly, you can reconfigure key layout here. Finally.

Unfortunately, it kinda suffers from one big problem as Bright Memory; its too damn short! For a full game, you can complete it in 2 hours. There's also some weird checkpoint mechanics here where if you die, you will restart the checkpoint... with the amount of ammo you had left right before you died, instead of how much ammo you have when you reached the checkpoint. Some part also have unskippable cutscenes, as it may have some QTE, which is a bit annoying.

Despite that, I did enjoy this game. It's not too bad, and its quite fun. As in Bright Memory, the Japanese VA for Sheila is still Yui Ishikawa, which is a well known VA. Coupled with workshop mods, you can use a 2B mod for Sheila and it will fit really well with the voice. If you want to get this game, perhaps you wait for a Steam sale to try it out.

Graphics = great.
Gunplay = great.
Swordplay = great.
Movement = great.
Booba = yes.
Too bad it's so short. What a fun game.

A very ammo-generous shooter. It's literally impossible to run (or even be at a slight risk of running) out of ammo for any of your weapons, unless you really try and constantly hold down the fire button and shoot at walls. Let's list some things:

+ It looks nice.*
+ The guns are nice, they feel and sound good. Secondary fire modes are useful.
+ Gameplay feels fluid and snappy, there are some really good moments of gameplay.
+ Some interesting gameplay elements, grappling tether and other methods of traversal.

- Very much on the short side. Took me a little over 3 hours to beat on the Violent (which would be Normal) difficulty, this includes checking most all nooks and crannies for lootables and not being a very proficient FPS player.
- Too handhold-y. You're almost constantly told what to do and where to go, down to the point where you're literally just told to turn right and go to the room next to you (even though that's the only way you can go. Also sometimes there are literal arrows showing you where to go.
- The game ends very abruptly. I don't think I even got all the obtainable(?) skills before the game ended.
- Voice acting is definitely lacking.
- The enemy roster consists of like 3 different enemies (+2 if you count the kind-of-minibosses).
- Nothing about the "story" is ever explained.
- Having typos in the dialogue makes it seem amateurish.
- "Combine a wide variety of skills and abilities to unleash dazzling combo attacks." I don't think I performed any of these "dazzling combo attacks", and I'd like to think I had a pretty varied play style throughout the game. Maybe they're just difficult to pull off.
- Unskippable cutscenes.
- It's a very linear game, there's basically one path to follow throughout.
- Pointless and needless QTEs and a couple of semi-guaranteed instant death pits unless you know what's coming in advance.

Overall I'll give it a 2/5, but partly because it's so short that it in no way justifies its price tag at full price (add the price-doubling cosmetics, too). It's not a bad way to spend a couple of hours, suggest getting at a hefty (75+%) discount, but otherwise I just cannot recommend this game for its price. It has a lot of potential that sadly remains almost completely unused.

*Though according to the end credits many, if not most, if not all, of the assets are from the Unreal Store, making this game essentially an asset flip, though fairly decent at that, as it delivers a playable game, after all.

Captain China

woman in videogame

Absolut verrücktes Gameplay. Leider geht das Spiel nur etwa 2h, deshalb am Besten im Sale kaufen.
Ich weiß nicht, wann ich zuletzt ein so actiongeladenes Spiel gespielt hab. Bei manchen Bosskämpfen bekam man einfach Gänsehaut, alles hat gepasst, die Musik, die Kampfmechaniken, einfach alles. Es ist einfach diese Mischung aus Rumballern und Schwertkämpfen und dann noch alles extremst schnell. Adrenalin pur.
Dann auch noch ein epischer Kampf auf einem fliegendem Flugzeug, das ist einfach das Dämlichste und Geilste überhaupt.

Very fast pacing game, very fun to play, its like Devil May Cry + Counter Strike combined lol.

very cool great developor

short but really good combat and gameplay