H.A.D.E.S Zero

Unacceptable game breaking bugs that can stop you from progressing the game: - the person who has red access card doesn't always spawn, so I was forced to reload an older save slot to speedrun a 1 hour progress - when I died at 1st boss, the game offered "Continue?" and after I clicked on it, I literally got revived at the boss area (or in the save room), without the boss (that you need to kill in order to progress the game) - I also couldn't interact with anything and not even "P" or "M" buttons worked, so I force-quit the game then load back the latest save. Turns out the boss didn't appear again and again, so I either had to reload an older save to speedrun to this point, but luckily after starting Epilogue then going back to main menu and loading that save, the boss appeared again. - the same "Continue?" bug is present in the Epilogue chapter final boss area too, except that the boss won't disappear but the monster near the save room and our character's HP may increase to fully healed) I'm willing to change my review to positive, but as long as a game has game breaking bugs that seems to happen often, I simply can't recommend the game anyone in this current state. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Normal review: Positives: + completely new chapter (Epilogue) was being added for completely free, not even increasing base price is awesome + always great to play/see another old school fixed camera survival horror game + there are cutscenes, which are short, but I still appreciate them Mixed feelings: +/- the game doesn't have tutorial, which is for classic survival horror fans are not bad, but starters will have no idea how to play, such as use "I" to open your inventory, "M" for opening map, "E" for most action or combine weapon + ammo for faster/better reload or attack with your knife while aiming down to destroy wooden crates +/- some camera angles are placed poorly +/- it's great that the developer added a map into the game (, wasn't there at launch), which highlights the doors you can open later (and hides the ones that will never be opened - although one of them does show up in the map), but late game (Chapter 3) and Epilogue doesn't have any, which depending how much time you can play will make you frustrated +/- no voice acting (enemies barely have any, not even as a feedback when you successfully injure them - even our characters doesn't have any voice feedback when they are getting hurt) +/- blue access card needs very specific angle to be able to be used Negatives: - the game also doesn't tell you how to pause the game (, which in most games are "ESC" button), and it is actually "P" or use "Q" for quick-turn - most of the puzzles are simply copy pasted from classic Resident evil game(s) - the story (at least the virus/monsters) origin is copy pasted from classic Resident evil 2 and other Resident evil games, and it doesn't really offer anything original (, even typewriters and ink ribbons are the way you can save in the game) - you can easily soft-lock yourself if you don't use specific weapons, and because of that I used knife for most of the time (they can stun-lock enemies and kill them in 1-2-3 hits, while pistol takes around 8 ammos to kill them) - the Epilogue boss fight isn't challenging it's just unfair -> it has tons of health -> it can run fast to catch up to you and deal damage that is almost impossible to avoid, so your only choice is to run away when you hear it's running, hoping it won't catch you (, because enemies don't get staggered while receiving damage) -> but auto-aim detection range is too short, so you can barely damage this enemy and have enough time to get away from its speed attack -> pistol and flamethrower literally useless against this boss, since they barely damage it -> the boss area doesn't have any supplies, so if you wasted too much of your shotgun ammo and pills, it's basically impossible to defeat this boss.