Daikatana

You can get the game for like 2$ on most legit key sites, and it's well worth that pricetag if you install the community made 1.3 patch. The first episode is fairly tough with its odd jumps and recoil-heavy weapons but once you get to episode 2 and unlock the sword and more straightforward maps, the game becomes actually really fun Sadly though, I got softlocked in the very last episode because I cranked the brightness up to try and find an item in the pitch black darkness, the game UI became pitch white, and I couldn't turn the brightness down anymore. Deleting my current save didn't work, deleting the inis didn't work, reinstalling the game didn't work, and AI (because seemingly nobody else has ever had that problem before) suggests the brightness setting specifically might be hard-installed in the Windows registry, which uhh.. yeah, don't ever put yer brightness past 150, folks, or yer game will be permanently lost in the Void

I played with the 1.3 patch. This game has attitude in spades. I had a very good time with this game, barring a few issues. In some levels, it is easy to get turned around or to "miss" what you are supposed to do. My companions did get stuck a few times, and there was one section that they just flat out refused to get on an elevator. I have read that on higher difficulties that is not issue, something about certain textures not rendering. On PC you can just force yourself to the next level with the console, but it was still an issue. Despite those issues, i still had a lot of fun. I found the weapons to be varied and fun to use, some even have alternate fires so be sure to experiment. The Daikatana can level up, which i somehow completely missed until the last level. Being able to enhance skills is a nice touch for an FPS, with pickups to temporarily max them out in the levels. The plot is...fine. It's nothing crazy but i found it easy to follow and even had 1-2 twists that surprised me. It's very much a product of it's time, but i had a good experience for the most part with this game.

How did this happen? Just HOW?

The doors! The doors man! IT'S THE DOORS! I am genuinenly baffled at how this game came to be. It's core mechanics are great, mostly due to it being made on the Quake 2 engine. But why would you ruin all of that with the absolute worst level design known to man? Not only that, the movement speed is even faster, especially once you upgrade the speed stat. So why is every level so attorciously tiny and crammed in? And of course THE DOORS. Now look, I have played Modern Warfare 2019. I know what doors can do to a game, but this, this is something on a whole new level. Once you enter the enemy base in the first episodes, there are doors EVERYWHERE. So why is that bad? They obviously block your line of fire and line of sight. Everytime you go to the next room, you open a door and 90% chance get greeted by at least 1 soldier with a hitscan weapon and a reaction time of a fly who instantly takes off 10-15 HP off of you. Next, the doors close on their own even if you stand near them. And if you block the door's path is will FKIN KILL YOU. And if you stand behind it, as you often will, spamming rockets and plasma shots into the next room because entering it with all enemies inside …

Broken azz game

Yeah, it's not really a great game. Everything they say online is true - skip it.