Fear The Early Access
HIGH Stunning comic book art style that goes perfectly with classic FPS mechanics.
LOW Wasted narrative potential.
WTF The arena segments devolve into random, chaotic battles.
HIGH Stunning comic book art style that goes perfectly with classic FPS mechanics.
LOW Wasted narrative potential.
WTF The arena segments devolve into random, chaotic battles.
HIGH Get in, get out — nice and speedy.
LOW Pay-to-display cosmetics with no way to be earned in-game.
WTF Only America needs saving, apparently.
I’ve spent several hours playing through the Early Access version of The Anacrusis and there is a hint of something that I think people might be able to latch on to.
HIGH It feels like Doom meets Bayonetta.
LOW There’s too much to learn in a short amount of time
WTF It’s over already? I was just starting to enjoy it!
HIGH A ’90s throwback with fast and smooth gameplay.
LOW The uninspiring and repetitive levels.
WTF Great (but minimal) music on a constant loop.
HIGH Getting a headshot while sliding into an enemy base.
LOW The extended underground swimming sequence.
WTF Yup, that’s definitely an eye flying away in slo-mo.
HIGH Getting a grappling hook during a train level.
LOW A big emphasis on unnecessary RPG elements.
WTF Seeing trash mobs materialize right before my eyes.
HIGH It’s still that same satisfying Call of Duty gameplay…
LOW …in a severely half-baked, racist and politically screwed-up package.
WTF Someone thought a dangerously right-wing game was needed in 2020?
HIGH Suspending enemies in mid-air before blasting them with a shotgun.
LOW The knight boss fight is torturously slow.
WTF I don’t know why anything is happening!
Welcome to This Is Not A Review. In these articles we discuss general impressions, ideas and thoughts on any given game, but as the title implies, it’s not a review. Instead, it’s an exercise in offering a quick recommendation (or dismissal) after spending enough time to grasp the ideas and gameplay of a thing without necessarily playing it from A to Z.
The subject of this installment: Connection Haunted developed by MrCiastku and published by No Gravity Games.
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