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One of the few single player games that has left me fuming. I can't believe I saw so many positive reviews for this game although I can see why they did so even against their better judgement. I want to recommend this game because it's a short experience with great art and atmospheric music, but it has a lot of flaws.

Mummy: demastered is an eight way directional shooter that doubles as a metroidvania. The weapons are typical shooter fare. The enemies seem to constantly attack in your blindspot and if they hit you, for a large section of the game you will be knocked back. This game is incredibly vertical so you will have to platform all over again many times. You can get the ability to not be knocked back and that is another element of how underwhelming this game is. The abilities suck. You can jump higher, run faster, go underwater, and climb on ceilings by the end of this game with optional upgrades like no knockback. If Super Metroid has cooler abilities than your metroidvania, you should redesign.

The real kicker here is a corpse run mechanic; this is one of the worst mechanics a metroidvania can implement. It completely kills the desire to explore and revisit areas because you feel penalized for doing so. The hardest boss this game has is dying in a terrible place. Somewhere far from a save point that has either the heatseeking skulls or drop-down eyes that charge at you. When you die, you lose all of your health upgrades and the weapons you had on you when you died so you'll only have your peashooter. Early in the game I had to corpse run to a spot with acid pits where you have climb on the ceiling with these charging eyes that will rise your height and charge at you. The timing is tight and if you get hit you are sent into a pit to lose a large chunk of your health, off you'll go to grind your health back up. It's tedious and took up probably 25% of my playtime.

The thing is, this game is incredibly easy outside of those corpse runs. Sure, you will run gauntlets of enemies who feel impossible to dodge until you get a weapon that can kill in one or two shots and sure you don't actually heal at save points but eventually you get so many health upgrades you can just tank. You get so many in fact that refilling your health fully will be too tedious. In this case because you can't heal at save points it will be easier to walk into the next room let yourself die and spawn with full health to kill your zombie. The bosses are very underwhelming, and I was able to beat them in one or two tries.

There is so much amiss with this game that I recommend the informed consumer to look for better similarly priced games that exponentially eclipse this in value.

The best thing to come out of that stupid dumb Dark Universe idea Universal Studios had back then.
This game has no right being this fun and good. I mean, just look at the movie, you know, that cheesy Tom Cruise vehicle. At first I found it hard to believe this was actually made after that film, but hey it follows every single beat of the movie so, IT IS based on that crappy Mummy movie. And is good, that's the big difference.

It is also a fairly easy metroidvania run & gun game, so I think this could be a great place for those looking to get in on the genre. A surprise, sure, but a welcomed one.

4/5