Slitterhead

真螳螂傳

Хорошая концепция и неплохая история с очень кривой и нудной реализацией. - полностью согласен с обзором другого игрока!

傻子才会买的游戏，然后我是傻子

This game is good but not great. It has unique gameplay and characters but it is plagued by repetitive missions and poor or non-existing voice work.

战斗手感稀碎，敌人做的也抽象，后边全是乱瞬移无敌帧加霸体

Slitterhead is probably my hardest game to recommend, but also my hardest game to not recommend. There are so many things to say, positive and negative. I genuinely loved the game, its overall presentation, all of its cutscenes, most of the combat, and all of its soundtrack. Slitterhead oozes charm if you let the vision of what it could have been envelop you. It is also painfully clear that this needed much more funding, so, so much more, to realise the clear vision this has. I played on the hardest difficulty (Nightmare) for my first playthrough. Not very wise, and I clearly do not recommend it for the faint of heart as it is absolutely brutal, probably among the most brutal game experiences I've ever had. At the same time, I loved this, every small triumph felt genuinely earned, and the game only gets harder. You make your choice, but you've been warned. The combat mostly flows well and is pretty stylish, especially if you embrace the body-swapping. I will say however that whenever you are fighting *several* enemies - hear more than three - which happens more and more frequently the further you are in the game, it kind of devolves into a bit of a chaotic mess you're trying to desperately fix. This might be influenced by playing in Nightmare difficulty, so take this with a grain of salt. The real bosses are mostly really good, especially in presentation, though some of them can get really messy because of the mentioned fighting-several-enemies-at-the-same-time thing. I prefer when bosses are alone as you can very easily fall in the over-tuned density category whenever you add medium spongy enemies around. Pro-tip: ALWAYS TRY TO KEEP TO THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOMS!!! (this may be inapplicable in certain areas but if you can, you should.) The designs of the enemies are pretty good, even if there are few of them (something like 4-5 different enemies, some being variants of one or another). I also love that they can change posture once in a while and have a totally different set of attacks and timings for deviations (parrying), this is good. Most of the attacks are very well telegraphed and mostly clear (even more if you end up refighting them) (except when some of the bosses go into flying posture and teleport around, that posture just plainly SUCKS) I really like most of the playable characters, most of them play a pretty crucial role in the plot (or their part of the plot), and while only 4-5 out of the 8 playable characters are fleshed out, they all do their jobs with different abilities and kits to take those missions on. Always take a supportive and an attack role character (the Blake + Julee combo rocks) The full voice acting of the cutscenes is mostly good and a really nice touch, however the sound bytes played whenever there is any dialogue outside of these can rapidly get jarring as these are whole English words, random affirmations instead of what is actually written, it can put off quite a bit at first. I would say that having another sound or even "mhhm"s would have been fine enough instead of this. It's tolerable though. As I have written previously, I've enjoyed the story quite a bit. To me, it is pretty good and has several layers of complexity, however, it also can feel really stretched to make the game use and reuse the same assets and the same streets to death, even if they are mostly used competently and "make sense". I would say the game is also very hand-holdy with its "puzzles" and "investigations", I would have preferred more explanation of the story through exploration (which is quite limited and gets more and more limited the further you are) instead of quite a bit of dialogue stopping you in your tracks and explaining and nudging the player and the camera in the right direction all the time, however this is also kind of subjective as I just prefer figuring most things out for myself, but if i managed to tolerate it, you probably can. I have some other nitpicks such as the keybinds being truly awful and while you can change some of them, you cannot bind abilities to most of the keyboard. (on an AZERTY keyboard at least, a huge part of the keyboard is both left out and unable to be mapped to, this was painful for ability-switching mid-fight as i *had* to be much less flexible in my movements when switching as some of the more practical keybinds aren't mappable.) I also have to point out that while I love the game and most of the things in it. It is very flawed and is NOT worth 50€. I picked this up a week ago when it was 20€ and I've had some very good and triumphant fun, but 50€ would be way too much for what it truly contains, around half of that or less should be good enough though. TL;DR. If you pick up this game, do so if it's around 25€ or lower, rebind what you can rebind in the controls, let the game take you on an adventure, don't expect too much, embrace its mechanics, don't play on the hardest difficulty except if you love pain and you'll hopefully see why I love this game despite its flaws. And if you do, I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I have.

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