Brutal John, The Most Brutal Ever With the awesome comeback of the boomer shooter FPS genre into the scene, There are many studios entering the hall with big dreams and efforts, and today's game is a prime example. With the market starting to get the fun out of the fast paced games, many new indie studios are jumping into the scene for this genre, and many more are getting there quickly and efficiently thanks to the commercial game engine market. With Unreal Engine, Unity and the newest Godot Engine, most of indie games were made possible. Brutal John, is a boomer shooter FPS developed and published by OldSchool Law Interactive , using the Unity engine to its most to deliver a good old boomer shooter experience that bring back the nostalgia of Duke Nukem Forever , the 2001 experience that we wanted to play. with a personal art style that defines the game, good gameplay and a lively vivid world. Brutal John is set in a parallel universe, where a cyborg invaded earth for mining c...
The Last Hero of Nostalgaia
The last hero of Nostalgaia is a souls-like upcoming game, with a distinctive art style. TLHON is developed by Over The Moon Studios. TLHON is the mixture of Elden Ring and Paper cut mansion. For me, this mixture is awesome. The art style of the game is the cherry for me. Using the mixture of 3D graphics and 2D game elements is amazing. Based on a retro game world of videogames, the story is cool. You are a stick character made of 2D pixels carrying a weapon. You venture through dungeons and fight enemies that have a 2D paper cut like shape. The story was good for me to keep me immersed in the game, although I died a lot of times at the first level. The idea of a game based on a world of retro games is what define TLHON. Being a stick made of pixels as we mentioned before, makes your potion a 2D icon and so on. There is so much art based on the style of the retro gaming genre as 2D and paper cut. I like this style, as it gives the game a lot of depth.
Although of all what mentioned above, you are in a 3D world (dungeon). The world is well crafted with the theme of the dungeon. On the first level, What caught my eyes was the library section. It felt right to see books on the floor with fallen bookshelves and roof made of bookshelves. The 3D world is well used for the story and the narrative. Yes, The narrative is the big plotter in this game, we will discuss that in a minute. The Narrative in this game is the most fun thing in the game. "Then suddenly the narrative decided that the stick-man would have an ambush". Once said, enemies start ambushing you while moving. With dialogues that are fun. The narration in this game is balls. The most fun comes realizing that the narrator is your enemy. He wants to delete you the narrator from the existence. This is a new kind of enemies that I would like to fight against. You keep hearing all the time in the game.
The game has inventory system like Elden Ring and any souls-like game. There are bosses, and they are as hard as they are in any souls game. They are usually made of paper cut,which again in a 3D world gives a new kind of depth to the game. They are hard though, it was hard for me I won't lie, but fun. There was a section of the first boss, where he moves like a lighthouse searching for the stick man. You have to sneak past the book hills in the library to fight him. This change is good to break the repetition of the game. The animations were not bad, once you die there is a nice death animation for you as well as enemies. It was an all over great experience and an addictive one for sure.
The Put-offs
There weren't any bugs in the game, but I had hard time with was that I can't determine the direction of stick-man. I don't know if it will improve or not, it was not a bug. I believe it gives the game a bit of a challenge that all.
The Verdict
The last Hero of Nostalgaia is an awesome souls-like game, everyone should try this game. It is elden ring but with paper cut shaders and graphics. Make sure to wishlist the game on steam below to support the devs making this game. Shout out for the devs for making this awesome game.
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My name is George, I am a physiotherapy student. I live in Egypt. I grew up on some retro titles like Max Payne and Claw. I like to play videogames and discover new indie games that deserve some more love and attention.
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