Recent reviews by ZerbanDaGreat

This game slonked me silly

A charming and fully-featured survival horror game in the style of Resident Evil, perhaps closer to the classics than even RE7 and RE8. This can be to its detriment at times, as bumbling through subsections of the game without knowing where the maps or save rooms are is sometimes a lot to deal with, and some wonky triggers on what the game actually marks on your map can be an issue. When I played the game save rooms were not marked on the map after discovery, making backtracking and shuffling items around needlessly tedious, and a critical red key door in the office tucked away in the corner of a disused floor was marked as simply an unlocked door for me so I ended up spending 20-30 minutes frantically running around to every conceivable location I could reach to check for progress. The game is also quite on the easy side, as the few times I died were either due to the inventory not pausing the game or having boxed my heals entirely to make more room - even on the hardest default difficulty the aforementioned progress block backtrack bonanza was the only time my supplies became remotely an issue, and by the time I discovered the hidden third weapon I had absolutely no reason to use it.

Even so, exploration is quite a bit of fun, with an interconnected world full of secrets I mostly couldn't find and extra supplies I could, some cute 'sidequests', and the satisfaction of a strategic duct tape usage paying dividends again and again and again all throughout a playthrough is hard to beat. The store and lore files are interesting without being obnoxious, the visual and audio presentation are the perfect middle ground of appealing on a budget (except maybe Gordon's ♥♥♥♥♥♥-up hands and arms), and sprinting around already knowing where you're going while violently ragdolling puppets with a shotgun is just really satisfying. Not my favourite game in the world, but glad I supported it.

All characters start with a magnet in their butt that draws enemy swords to it no matter how fast you circle around 10/10