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[Krathoon]

It seems like this will be out on gog in a bit. I just bought the first one on gog.

 

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Played a couple hours but I'm not as far as I should be due to a somewhat bullshit death. Got grabbed and the displayed prompt to break free showed up as a mouse button instead of a controller! Didn't spam the correct button (which is 'X' on Dualsense) and died; and since I'm playing on normal, no autosave and I got sent back a good ways to my last save.

Really enjoying it so far though. Definitely feels like a game for genre fans and not so much for convincing those not already into this kind of game.

Edit: somewhat embarrassed to admit i got stuck a bit quite early. Didn't realize you could "use" weapons from your inventory. Basically exhausted everything else I could do before figuring it out. Lesson learned though!

The display prompt is for sure a common bug because it happened to me too.

I also died by going into the shadows because the hard 180 turn does not work while you are in the shadows apparently.

What I noticed is that this game assumes you know most of the genre tropes/mechanics already. I don't think they even explain that you can Inspect/Combine items. So this is probably not very friendly to new players in the genre. Luckily, the game has few mechanics so it should not be too much of a hurdle for new players.

I really liked the combat in the first one, I mean, it was serviceable. But it was too easy. I'm wondering if this was addressed.

The combat is still quite easy.

You also get the shotgun almost at the beginning, so it makes combat with multiple enemies much easier from the get go.