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Namako explodes into a fountain of blood for what feels like the eighth time, and I open the menu and select Restart Battle. I’m fighting a giant skull and a pair of hands that looks like what I imagine Ocarina of Time’s Bongo Bongo would be if he were a skeleton. Every few turns, his skull splits open and his brain politely drops to the floor of the arena so one of my students can whale on it. It is the only way I can hurt him, and he decides when and how it happens. Our war is one of attrition. That isn’t what’s killing Namako. It’s easy to dodge, as are the bony fingers he stabs into the stone floor of the dank, dusty crypt in which we battle. No, what’s killing her are the little crawly demons his hands place on the floor between turns. He always puts them in random places, so there is no way to prepare for where they’ll be, and Namako, who is particularly susceptible to their attacks, dies in two hits. One bad turn, and she’s little more than a pool of blood traveling the gaps between the stones beneath our feet.
Painkiller is a game about nothing for no one, a mediocre resurrection of a classic trying to put a new cover on an old book and hoping it still has some relevance 21 years later.
Painkiller is a game about nothing for no one, a mediocre resurrection of a classic trying to put a new cover on an old book and hoping it still has some relevance 21 years later.
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