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There’s a heavy reliance on generic cannon fodder enemies to fill space, to the point where encounters are fairly unchallenging, even on higher difficulties. This might partially be the fault of enemy variety, which is a sticking point as well.

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While these sorts of mechanics certainly aren't a necessity, I think something like them would have gone a long way towards encouraging full use of the tools you’re handed and given the weapons more of an identity besides just their damage values. There's also nothing like Doom Eternal's animation-cancelling by weapon swapping to incentivize switching between guns.

For instance, there are no shield-breaking weapons, nor guns designed primarily for inflicting some sort of stagger. Ammo is rather scarce in the first few levels but becomes fairly plentiful afterwards, which means you’ll rarely be switching guns out of a need to preserve resources, unless your aim is particularly bad.Ĭompounding this is the fact that there are no weapons that are particularly effective against certain kinds of enemies.

Despite having eleven different weapons, I only found myself consistently using three - a super shotgun for up-close encounters, dual wielded rifles for mid-range, and a rocket launcher when I desperately wanted something dead. While the guns mostly feel good to use (even if the introduction of them is a bit slow for my liking), the weapons themselves don’t differentiate enough to feel like they specialize very well. There’s really no reason you would ever not want to be traveling full speed and it just saves the annoyance of always having to press down on the left stick.Īctual combat does get a bit samey, however. Movement feels pretty good and responsive, although one recommendation I would strongly make before starting is enabling auto sprint. The gameplay is unsurprisingly very reminiscent of old Doom and Quake titles, with a heavy emphasis on constant movement to avoid damage rather than hiding behind cover. you guessed it, killing a bunch of demons. The core interactive loop of Prodeus involves trying to help Doomguy’s nephew get noticed by his bosses by. The main character is a soldier who has no real personality outside of being very angry and wanting to kill demons, so I chose to add some context to the story by imagining he’s Doomguy’s nephew working his first demon-killing internship and hoping to get some experience to move up in the world of exterminating hellspawn. The story is pretty simple, as it tends to be in these affairs: demons exist and you would strongly prefer they didn’t. Prodeus is a love letter to the movement shooters of the 90s like Doom and Quake. 9), and with Prodeus we can now firmly add somewhere in the middle. Sometimes this plays out for the better ( A Hat in Time), sometimes for the worse ( Mighty No. Remasters and remakes are becoming increasingly popular in this day and age, but the crème de la crème is arguably the spiritual successor an attempt to emulate old beloved titles with a new setting and characters. Like the average Dallas Cowboys fan, the games industry loves to revel in past successes. By Paul Broussard, posted on 22 October 2022 / 3,443 Views