The Mummy Demastered

Get it on sale and it's honestly a good & short Metroidvania to pass the time with.

Not really worth playing unless you have a metroidvania itch you need to scratch and you've played all the other high-profile titles. First off, enemy speed is tied to the framerate and there's no in-game adjustment, so lock your monitor's refresh rate to 60FPS if you want a playable experience. Increased enemy density is an issue in later areas of the game, and that issue is compounded when some of those enemies hit like a truck. Further adding to the frustration, when you die, you leave your health, gear, and upgrades behind in a reanimated corpse and need to find your way back to it and kill it with just 99 health and your starter weapon. This all seems fair until you die in an area of the map with a lot of respawning enemies (crows, mummies, etc). If you die again before reaching your gear, your corpse gets reanimated again, and you'll have to fight off another reanimated corpse in addition to the original as well as all the enemies in that area to get to it. This problem compounds with subsequent deaths, and almost ended my run near the end of the game. I think this mechanic itself is okay but maybe limiting it to just one corpse and wherever you last died at would make thi…

Dated game, would not recommend. No mouse support either, but it would not help the monotony either way.

I heard some really good things about this game. Looking at screenshots, the pixel art looks amazing. The soundtrack is even great, I love looking at and listening to this game. The big problem is how much of a chore it feels like to play. There are entirely way too many enemies that move so quickly, you can't even hit them half the time. You need a powered up weapon if you plan on taking many of them out the first time you see them as they fly on and off the screen. The huge problem with this is how much is going on the screen and how much platforming you have. The game is incredibly punishing in the sense that you will be jumping back and forth on the same platform to avoid enemies since you can't kill them quickly enough. If you're lucky, you might be able to hit them a couple times as they fly across the screen way too quickly to aim, you mostly spam in their general direction. You go hit? Too bad, the knock back will push you off the tiny platform you have to wait to rise and you start your journey through the room all over again. I've had that happen entirely way too many times from enemies that come at you so quickly from an angle that you can't even aim at that I got so …

Soundtrack is vibin and pixels are solid. Gameplay is lacking. Demastered too much for my taste. They tunnel visioned on nostalgia bait and skipped half of century of evolution of QoL thought.

Starts off like a Contra-style Run N' Gun shooter but it quickly transforms into something more of a Metroidvania, which I wasn't expecting. I got a kick out of realizing that, instead of playing as Tom Cruise's character from the terrible movie this is supposedly adapting, you're just some random soldier dude that works for an organization that fights monsters. Amazing. The game itself is pretty solid, though nothing ground-breaking if you've played this style of game before.