Brian Seymour
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Don’t be fooled. Hellbound doesn’t straddle the line between inspiration and imitation. Instead, it dives headfirst into the shallow end. There’s enough marketing and nostalgia on the surface to lure you in. But once you start playing, you’ll just be thinking about how you could be playing Doom instead.
Most puzzles were unique enough, but none were truly puzzling. One puzzle, in particular, has Peet riding a skateboard and hitting certain checkpoints to unlock roadblocks. It was much too overused and sometimes failed to introduce enough variance to justify another use. Some puzzles can be solved immediately but have...
It’s for this problematic consequence alone that I can’t in good faith recommend The Suicide of Rachel Foster. Ethics aside, its plummet from a mostly decent horror mystery to an absolute miscarriage of the genre makes it just as difficult to support.
But it isn’t the combat that kept me playing Control in the first place. Throwing forklifts at people can only remain fun for so long. Ultimately, it’s the worldbuilding that keeps me playing, and that’s also why I’ll continue to play the expansions. I just wish there were more gameplay...
Ori and the Will of the Wisps is an enjoyable experience. Thematically, it satisfies that itch Ori and the Blind Forest created and improves on the prequel’s monotonous combat. While I yearn for past mechanics and design, Ori and the Will of the Wisps is still very much a game...
