Onirism

bets game i ever played. not much games this days that has soul in it

Fun, it's like metroid prime and serious sam combined. I had a game breaking bug but the dev fixed it after a day or two. Very colorful and pretty looking areas.

This game should be way more popular and well known than it is. What I thought I was buying was a cute wholesome 3d platformer featuring an adorable spunky protagonist. What I got feels like a spiritual successor to every game series I have loved growing up all rolled into one bombastic experience. First there's Adventure mode which really reminds me of Ratchet and Clank or Jak and Daxter. Some of the best platformers from the PS2 days. But it's more than just that because if you swap to first person, it instantly becomes like serious sam. Including a lot of enemies you will find familiar from SS and other series. Like the poison headcrab dude from HL2 is here. But none of it is waved in your face nor does it feel derivative. It's more of a loving nod to the games that inspired this one. On top of the adventure mode, there's also Tales mode which is essentially CoD Zombies but with it's own flair. It's really enjoyable and they have really done a good job adding in a lot of movement mechanics you only find in games like CoD. Quick slides, climbing ledges, wall running, diving into prone from a run. It all seems here with the exception of ADS. This game is all hipfire because your right mouse click is used to seamlessly swap between third and first person. There is also no reloading, though some guns will go through a reload animation. It's a bit weird. It plays like old school doom where it's pulling ammo from a pool instead of going by rounds per magazine. So it's in this weird limbo where some guns do have reloading animations that will trigger at random, but there's no manual reload. The third mode, yes this game has a bit more, is called Hunt Mode. It's a time based survival mode. You load into an arena of choice and then you stay alive for a set amount of time while different enemies with guns spawn in. While playing you earn pearls you can use to use traps or upgrade equipment. Very reminiscent of Firefight from Halo ODST and Halo Reach. Lastly there's a playground mode. Here you can play a lot of different game types, which you can also play with/against bots. There's deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag, king of the hill, and other modes as well. There's racing minigames and all kinds of good stuff. Best part, for me at least, it's all split-screen co-op. Adventure, tales, hunt, and playground. This game is helping me relive the good old days of shooter couch co-op with my wife. This game is fantastic and seems to be influenced by every great shooter. Somehow this game manages to pull all of this off while feeling like it could easily be a spin-off of Timesplitters with the art design and humor. Do not sleep on this game. It is phenomenal and clearly made with love. My only complaint is that there is currently no option to play online, but the devs are working on getting it added into the game. That's not a deal breaker for me, but if no online is for you, it's coming. They even have it in the menu greyed out with 'coming soon'. So it's coming, just when is the question. Each of the other three modes also have a good number of maps currently and more are added with updates. I don't know counts right off hand but each mode has at least 10 different maps. Each being unique to the game mode. An example is there's a tales map called 'Catastrophe on the Moon' and it's very much a castlevania themed map. So much so, your melee 3rd person attack is a chain whip and you can destroy candles for hearts and other pick ups. I'm legitimately mad this game snuck by me for a year. This is pure gold for a 90s kid.