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Deltarune Chapter 2 was incredible, just like Ch1 and Undertale. I’m kinda stunned by how big of a game it will be with all 7 chapters (at least there are 7 on the chapter select screen) fully playable. It’s gonna be a long road before we get there though.
I knew I wasn’t crazy and I DID play some CS game that was entirely singleplayer back when I was a kid. While the original version is just some weird type of usual CS matches with bots but some special conditions, didn’t bother with that. What interested me was Deleted Scenes, a game compiled out of a single-player campaign missions created for the original game in the first place.
All of the missions are self-contained plot-wise, so the campaign as a whole looks pretty disjointed. It’s still fun though, and it’s really cute how they tried to make things as cinematic as possible with the tools they were given.
I found Japanese Kyodai’s missions most fun, especially when I found book stores with recognizable (but changed for the sake of parody, obviously) manga covers lying around.
I recognized SaiKano, Peridot, Bluer than Indigo, Read Or Die and Azumanga Daioh.
The enemy AI is pretty dumb. Not to say your allies’ AI is any better, I was stuck in the room because one of those dumbasses just couldn’t get out of the way more than once. Also this is one of those games where you can’t pick up ememies’ weapons or ammo, you have to look for supplies lying around in specific places.
As you might’ve noticed on the screenshots above, this game doesn’t support widescreen.
Overall, while being pretty old at this point, there’s still some stuff to appreciate in this game.
Let’s just put this out of the way first - I didn’t find this game exactly terrible. Of course, if I had to wait as long as some people did, maybe I’d have a different opinion about it. It definitely has some flaws, but it’s okay in my book.
There were some really fun moments (most of what I liked was related to segments where you’re shrunk) and fights, but sometimes game’s lows can be pretty low… low. For example, an unbeatable (if you don’t have vsync on) jump in Ghost Town was really frustrating. Also, the humour here is so juvenile it hurts. I get it, it’s Duke Nukem of all things, but still.
I really don’t get why the game wasn’t released with four weapon slots available in the first place. You still have to turn them on in the settings, otherwise you’ll have to be dealing with only two (!).
For some bizarre reason the DLC isn’t available for purchase in my country. Okay then?
Overall, it wasn’t as bad as people say it is.
I mean, I wouldn’t call this game bad, but… why?
This is a demake of the first Lucius game and it’s almost exactly the same as the original. So… why?
The visuals aren’t very pleasant to look at, the sounds and music are pretty annoying. So… Why?
I mean, at least the achievements are less obnoxious that the original’s. But it still has dumb stuff like “walk 26 miles on feet”. Just why?
It’s fine, I guess. But… what was the point? Why? It just makes the game more underwhelming on purpose.
This game somehow reminds me of Don’t Starve, but simplified and more story-driven. You’ll be spending a lot of time looking for ingredients, crafting and fighting enemies. The artstyle is pretty, the gameplay can be challenging, but nothing too steep - every problem here is manageable with propper planning ahead. It was pretty fun.
Backlog progress status:
I was about to say idk why I assumed deltarune wasn’t on steam, it makes sense it would be but I also see its not released just yet because they are apparently making chapter 1+2 free but the 3-5 paid. Geez wonder how long that is gonna take to finish
Yeah lucius demake is a very why situation, its perfect if you want to speedrun through the story but otherwise its just a collectors item really