Selaco

nice gunplay, nice puzzles and secrets (some are a bit too nice) levels are a bit too big for the amount of backtracking required without a world map music sometimes is missing and you're just there in dead silence it's fun

In a few lines: - Guns are extremely punchy, all are viable, all are various, and all are GOOD. - Secret hunting is good, although some are a bit too weird. - progression is extremely well-paced. - Enemy AI is so smart and they will eat the shotgun for that. Those were a few line, but replayability is infinite, you actually need to add 30 hours to my playtime. Edit- first playthrough: ~12h most secrets difficulty: the middle one 2nd playthrough randomizer+few modifiers : ~8h rushing difficulty: captain 3rd playthrough vanilla: ~15h ALL secrets difficulty admiral. Please note that all these time do not take into account my many, many, many deaths.

How did these wizards make the doom engine do all these things is beyond me. Of what's out so far you've got one of the best boomershooters out there. The combat requires and really rewards a careful planned approach, especially on higher difficulties. The story is fun and pretty expansive, albeit for now it's abruptly cut short at the end of chapter 1. The visuals make me forget it's a doom engine game sometimes. Absolutely loving the sound design, especially the enemy chatter as they're getting obliterated. Highly recommend unless you want a more finished storyline coming into this.

I rarely write reviews, but I've read a few recent ones from people who, for starters, gave utterly terrible reviews after playing for less than an hour. One used AI to 'help' them, but reading it makes the game seem like it itself is some sort of slop dredged with data from notebooks soaked in sewer sludge. And it absolutely is not. TL:DR: The game is brilliant, and a gem in the retro-shooter genre. Worth every. Single. Damn. Cent. Period. To add more detail: The game has a purple-hued pallet, but make no mistake: the colors throughout are varied, vibrant, and meaningful. The atmosphere permeates every surface and crevice of the environment and the game overall. I remember when I first stepped out into the actual open streets of Selaco proper (which is at least a couple hours into the game). After a claustrophobic fight beforehand, I emerged from a hole onto the wide expanse of a deserted street plaza. The juxtoposition of crawling through a cave of dirt and mud with browns and grays, then going to the open streets laced with soft rain tinted purple and one of the best Vangelis-esque music tracks I've heard to date, was absolutely breathtaking. And the *whole game* regularly presents moments with this sort of gravitas. This one struck me the hardest, but it's far from the only moment of impact. The gameplay is tight and can be tough, but it's fair and rather rare for the player to die and ask themselves "what the - happened?" The AI is smart and regularly comes at you from unexpected angles. Some of the best PVE AI I've seen in years, seriously. Fights are intense and often have a sort of back-and-forth to them. Enemies are also rather varied despite some surface appearances: be smart with how and *what* they're engaged with! Weapons are varied, sound great, and are extremely punchy and impactful. They're all fun, and there's something for everyone here. The upgrade system is excellent and useful without being overwhelming. There isn't some sort of messy 'upgrade tree'; this is much more straightforward and tangible. Upgrades take time though, but when you unlock one it's useful, rewarding, and satisfying. Sound design is incredible. I've already mentioned the music, which varies from pulsing tense clubby music reminiscent of the OG movie "Blade" to melancholic tones that take you to another time and place. Sometimes there isn't any at all: the background sounds, alarms, short-circuits, etc. form their own atmosphere, and adding music would take away from that. Explosions rock, stacks of paper reports flutter when they scatter, and voice acting, while sparse, is excellent. The game *sounds* as alive as it looks. Tons of interactivity exist; it will remind a lot of people my age of the old "Duke Nukem 3D": sinks and faucets work, toilets flush, window shades and light switches are functional (with the lighting effects to match), and all sorts of other stuff. Many of the objects are moveable and even useable in a constructive way. And everything sounds and looks coherent and believable. The physics just in general are amazing; particle effects are stellar in particular. The story so far is not huge, but the devs clearly have a bigger picture in mind. IMO the notes and so on are well-written without being too much; some of them have a narrative that goes over time, and I have to admit I'm a sucker for some of the characters you passively come to know over time. The maps themselves are pretty large, if not huge. They can be a bit complex, and I did have to do a little backtracking here and there, but nothing a Google search couldn't get me out of if I felt the need. But I appreciate this a ton because most of the game is absolutely *not* linear: there are all sorts of ways to approach most of the scenarios you encounter. There are tons of places and nooks and crannies to explore. And you really should take the time to explore it, there is a lot to see! Is the game perfect? Of course not. Perfection is impossibly difficult, which is what makes it so worthwhile to pursue. And the devs here *do* pursue it with conviction. Every single pixel is considered and measured. Every encounter is crafted; it's obvious many things in the game have been revisited many, many times to tweak them to *exactly* what the dev was wanting to make happen. "Every single frame a painting made exactly how I want to make it," is the line that comes to mind after reading the developer's update notes and playing the game. Every single instance is the game is on purpose, for a purpose, done with passion and conviction. Selaco is a gem, and I absolutely love it.

만육천원쯤에 삼 최고난이도 기준 10시간쯤 할 게 없고 쫄깃한 고전 FPS가 입맛에 맞으면 재밌게 할 수 있음 길찾기는 모든 곳을 구석구석 둘러보고 녹색 빛을 따라갈 것.

The game has a whole ass Cookie Clicker, which is my crack cocaine of a game, inside of it. Also the shooting and gameplay is really really good and I cannot describe how fun it is without being very metiulous about things. It does blue ball you at the end of its current build, however the current state, everything before that is unholying good (which isnt a word but (idgaf).

I STRONGLY RECOMMEND, if you played any GZDoom Total Conversion mods or just Doom in general. I was astonished that this game is a modded Doom engine, almost on the same level as Total Chaos TC mod. Combat here is marvelous and I came all over the atmosphere, weapons and environments! Some mechanics I saw first (like that multmeter that beeped when close to a secret), amazingly done! I can't wait for the Chapter 2 cause that ending cliffhanger needs to be adressed in the next one. 10/10 "FLASHLIGHT! It's her!"

Background: I grew up in the rise of PC gaming on floppy disks and CDs. From Doom to Raptor and even the one time Apple tried with CroMag Rally. I also love the F.E.A.R. series and Half Life. Everything about this games description told me I was going to love it. Boy, do I love it. Remember when games were Hard? The pop up advertisement was only in Netscape Navigator. And when you got an incoming phone call it disconnected the internet? Yeah...PTSD kids these days will never understand. Selaco is a love letter to those days. Difficult means difficult. No DLC Weapons to carry you. You have to use your eyeballs to find secrets and ammo is limited. Lets be clear. I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love this game. I waited for it to be on sale so I could re-live the old days of going to the game store like FYE and sifting through floppy disks that only had the name of the game on it, no manual, no description, just a price... $2.49 as the world intended. Gunplay is amazing, each weapon has its use and most importantly unlike most games where your starting pistol is useless the Pistol in Selaco is a huge revolver called the Matsuba. This pistol can carry you the entire episode do not be mislead by its "starter" appearance. Like I said earlier, secrets aren't highlighted and you must use your eyes like the days of old to sus out all the hidden loot and there is a lot of it. This game pushed the GZDoom engine to almost its break point. Particle effects, smoke, fragmentation, large set pieces, you name it. it may be pixelated but the Action is crisp, clean, fast and pumping. 11/10 if you wanna remember what it was like to be 13 again on your Windows 95/98 on that big CRT monitor with your notepad of cheat codes and secret locations next to you, I highly recommend you check out Selaco.