GRAVEN

Hell, I really wanted to go against the grain and recommend this one for its atmosphere and charming mix of early 2000 immersive sim and shooter design. Then, I got stuck because an elevator wouldn't come down from a place I visited in a previous session of the game. When you start a game from a save, it puts in the hub area, which allowed me to buy some stuff before heading out to what I thought would be the game's finale... alas, with the elevator stuck above, I can't get to where I need to be. No cheats available, no flying power-ups like in Heretic/Hexen. I tried a solution that suggests stacking stuff in odd places and jumping up to a secondary lever, but found I can't replicate it. And that was that :(

Great atmosphere not climate this doens't compare to each other. Great visuals and character models as any model of environmental. Weapons are just basics there's no stats on any of those. You just feel that the weapon is much better after upgrade. My sword was swinging badly as some sort of hammer, before it was just a poor low quality one. Enemies are just boring and fighitng with them is like hitting some sort of rock or steel. You don't feel that amount of meat you hit. There's no such thing as executions or great combos. No skills even. It's like boomer shooter but with sword some sort of magic and crossbow. The worst thing is spawn. I have died in swamps and then game was spawning me with insta death in other place. I needed to restart that crap. And what? I needed to arrive from the city to the place much further ahead. Even thought I ended up playing this after lauching it today 2 days after last play and same reason. I needed to arrive from the city and they were killing me instant cuz I was trying to speedrun but in the elevator I couldn't go up cause they were there and they were many and killing me badly. So yeah fck off with that!

I love how after coming back to this game after a year or less, the game refuses to open past the publisher screen. This game does not work, do not buy.

I played the demo and fell in love with it enough to buy. And then when It came out I waited, waited in hopes that things would be fixed and everything would feel as good as the demo. It never happened.

9/10

The save system just why/?