4089: Ghost Within

This game is hard for me to review. I enjoyed parts of it quite a bit but other parts that made me want to quit. Most of the gameplay is great and it has some really cool enemy's but the "difficulty" ramp was way to extreme. It's not an easy game but when I was getting close to the boss it got so hard that I was only a few rooms from the boss and couldn't progress anymore because I was dying so much. There was one enemy that I think glitch out and was impossible to kill because I spent 5 minutes spamming my gun at him and he didn't die. The more you die in this game the further you get sent back with no way to get back to where you were as you loose ability points when you die. I know the original intention was to have limited lives or 1 life and the feature to have unlimited lives but loose ability points was added to make the game easier but it still feels like limited lives because after your 5 or 6th death you have no more ability's left. I ended up editing the game files to finish the boss because I couldn't figure out how to kill him with such low health and damage. I wanted to hear the story because I've been a big fan of the XX89 series that the game maker Phr00t started and wanted to know this tied into the rest of the series. It's not a bad game if you want a challenging hard to beat boss battle or love the idea of a rouge like that you have to start over when you die but for the person who didn't want to grind at the game it wasn't the best. I still had fun playing it even if I did edit the game files to beat it.