First-person leg enjoyer. @theoracleofllaena - Tumblr Blog

Yep... another one.

I found out about this game The Mute House about a year after its release, after trying the demo for its spiritual sequel, Faithless Water (which was a decent time). The Mute House went on sale shortly after, it was cheap, so I bought it. Yet another indie survival horror, but why not. It's a very short game, and I've heard it described as "Resident Evil 1: hard mode" which sounds accurate to me. I have beaten it twice, once on its default difficulty, and again on the unlockable "Fury House" difficulty, and here is my short review of this short indie game.

Goods: If you like survival horror... it's more of that. This is an Unreal Engine 4 game mostly made by one dude, and it looks pretty good. The music is good, voices are decent, gunshots are punchy, and it has enough vibes of classic survival horror to keep it going. Some of the puzzles are nice and require some logic to solve. Overall the game runs okay. There is also a cat in every save room, and you can pet the cat. That is important.

Mehs: It really doesn't do anything special that other Resident Evil ripoffs haven't done already. You can run backwards, which is nice, but that's the only sort of dodge you get. Main character Emily Newsome, a small town cop, is a blank slate of a protagonist, she's there to rescue her sister and not much else happens in this barely-there plot. There is a small number of enemy types, mostly just zambambos and tankier zambambos, they are not fun to fight, they have magnetic grabs and huge collision boxes, making running past them almost impossible. There are only two guns (starting pistol and a shotgun, though you do unlock an infinite ammo pistol if you 100% the game), you get a laser-assisted free aim (...in fixed camera angles), and the zoomed-out camera makes headshots difficult. The game really does live up to the "Resident Evil: Hard Mode" reputation but not always in a good way. Item boxes are not connected (like "Real Survival" mode in the RE1 REmake) meaning more backtracking, and these item boxes are also only limited to 10 items. Emily starts with six item slots (can be increased to eight) but ammo takes up way too many spaces, each stack only contains enough for a full mag (8 pistol rounds or 6 shotgun shells); if you play decently enough and try for headshots, you can easily have way too much ammo to carry. While there are files that explain the lore, there is no in-game file viewer (more on this later). The game is also really short, while a first playthrough could take 6-8 hours or so (and most of it is backtracking), I finished my second playthrough on hard difficulty in about two hours (including backtracking for item shuttling). The price is good, though, so this is forgivable

Bads: Helps to have a map™. There is one puzzle towards the end of the game, a Fear Effect-esque floor trap with symbols on its tiles, requiring you to either backtrack to five areas in the game (with respawning enemies) to memorize a total of 20 symbols so you can cross the floor (with a single misstep equaling instant death) or just reference your Steam screenshots folder. It's not fun. This could have been solved if the player could view the clues in the in-game file viewer (and there isn't one) like in Ground Zero, but you can't. Bosses are also just huge bullet sponges, one can be killed with environmental damage but the rest are just mindless, boring bullet sponges. Also, the in-game menus are particularly awkward, the options menu shades options in similar colors so it is unnecessarily hard to see which one you are changing, while the in-game inventory is especially awful if you are using a controller, you move a fake mouse cursor at two speeds: left stick for "too slow" and right stick for "just slightly too fast", this will cause problems if you need to change weapons or heal during combat. And yes, it's yet another boring, bare bones RE Engine-esque menu. Oh well.

Overall though, I don't want to be too hard on this game, it is a decent game and the price is right (I paid about $9 for it, it's usually about $13 US and it's now 50% off on the Steam sale). It's not a bad game, and I'd rather see more passion projects like this than more "triple A" garbage. Also, the dev's upcoming game, Faithless Water, does take into account many of the criticisms of this game already (such as a usable map and the ability to kick zambambos), so I'm definitely looking forward to that one.

Not every game can be perfect, and that's okay. But... maybe that's what I need right now. Maybe I should play something... Perfect.

#The Mute House #December Blues Games

jillchris

RESIDENT EVIL The Umbrella Chronicles (2007)

#Resident Evil #Biohazard #Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles #Jill Valentine #Chris Redfield #SUFFER LIKE WII DID #flashback to when nobody cared about fictional characters' firearms safety #or lack thereof

nowadayz

Resident Evil HD Remaster (2015)

#Resident Evil #Biohazard #Jill Valentine #Resident Evil REmake #RE1 REmake is best RE #early game lucky headshots feel so good

All right, now for something not horror-related for a change. I remember earlier this year, for some reason the Pootube al gore rhythm kept popping up these short videos about some indie game named Motorslice, and initially I paid no interest, until I saw there was a playable demo on Steam. So naturally, I tried the demo, decided the game was fun, and about a month later, I bought the game... on GOG. Hooray for simultaneous day 1 launches on GOG, I wish more developers could manage that. Anyway, it's a 3D platforming/parkour game full of the usual bullshit you'd expect from that kind of game, and I grew up playing bullshit 3D platformers on the N64 and Gamecube so I'm already inoculated to the bullshittery this game provides.

Silly review time.

Goods: Overall, the gameplay and movement feel fun, you can wall-run and do wall-jumps, and even the game's "Motorslice" move (stick your chainsword into special glowing walls and ride to the end). There's simple combat and some decently entertaining story scenes, but mostly it's about getting from A to B. For the price, it's a decently lengthy game, first run took me about 15 hours (which involved finding each and every hidden optional "orb" in each level, some of these are quite difficult and off the main path), second run after the game's first patch was much quicker, about 5 hours. There are huge bosses to fight, absolutely towering monstrosities, and it's all about figuring out how to get to and/or expose their weakpoints to be Motorsliced™. The game has a nice visual style, relatively minimalist in geometry, and with few colors similar to the outdoor areas in Mirror's Edge with some nice soft lighting; the overall look reminded me of an old WiiWare game, NyxQuest, and I liked that game. Main character P is decent, even if her voice acting sometimes strays too far into "underage anime protagonist" territory. The gameplay loop is fast and even with the game's many cheap deaths, respawning is quick and checkpoints are reasonable enough so you get right back into the game, Hotline Miami-style. Music is nice, there are a few tracks, some energetic and others graceful, it sets the mood.

Mehs: The story is very bare-bones and hints at the game's lore but really isn't substantial. There are optional cutscenes where P will comment about her situation (with fanservice involved) and the player, as her diegetic in-game camera, Orbie, is given two choices to respond, one is usually straightforward and tells P to focus on the mission, and the other is gooner/simp/"horny on main"/whatever you kids say these days. They can get pretty stupid (yes, the foot part especially) but these are all optional and really don't detract too much, they're just silly. Technically, the game ran mostly fine for me but a few areas are very heavy on particles and chugged the frame rate, but it wasn't too bad. Combat is also hit or miss, P tends to whiff melee attacks way too easily, and there are ranged enemies whose attacks are difficult to see coming, they can feel like artificial difficulty but the quick checkpoint respawning reduces them to an annoyance.

Bads: The game's controls are mostly fine but the game still has some awful bits even after the patch. P's movements snap to an invisible grid and this can and will get her killed, a simple hop from one pipe to the next will inconsistently send her flying past the intended destination into a bottomless pit, and she'll even magnetize towards walls, starting an unstoppable wallrun (off a cliff to her death) instead of just simply landing on the ground where the player intended. The type of wallrun depends if the player contacts a wall (or gets close enough for the magnetism to activate) head-on or facing either side, but the game is horrible with detecting the player's orientation and P will just do whatever the game feels like; this has been reduced significantly with the patch but it's still a problem. Even something as simple as stepping off of a ledge to drop to a platform below can lead to P's unnecessary death as she carries with her the momentum of a semi-truck (the patch also addressed this, and not completely). The player will die from the game's inconsistent controls more often than from actual gameplay difficulty. And of course, it's a 3D platforming game, so the game's number one enemy is the camera. Finally, it is relatively easy to cheese the game as some sections can be entirely skipped with wall-jumps (not even super special speedrunner techniques, just basic wall jumps anybody who grew up playing Super Mario 64 could accomplish on the first try), and even bosses can be cheesed; for example, on my first run, the game's final boss either bugged out or I went "off-script" somehow and the boss, a flying train (not a spoiler since it's in the game's official trailers) just stayed lying on the ground, instead of taking off to fly, so I got to Motorslice its weakpoints with impunity. I did fight it for real after reloading a save, but still.

Overall, it's still a fun game even with its bullshit, the game's one (and so far only) patch fixed some but not all issues, but the game is playable from start to finish as-is. It's cheap, it was a nice diversion, I don't regret buying it.

#Motorslice #Regular Studio #Top Hat Studios

valenfield-inspo

CHRIS REDFIELD & JILL VALENTINE Resident Evil HD Remaster (2015) - "Congratulations" screen for completing Invisible Enemy Mode

#Resident Evil #Biohazard #Jill Valentine #Chris Redfield #RE1 REmake is best RE #Resident Evil REmake #still can't beat the feeling of unlocking this the first time in the 2002 Gamecube version

valenfield-inspo

RESIDENT EVIL 3: NEMESIS (1999) / RESIDENT EVIL: CODE VERONICA (2000) 🕷

#Resident Evil #Resident Evil 3: Nemesis #Resident Evil Code: Veronica #Jill Valentine #Chris Redfield #spooders

sabrerine911

33rd Birthday piece and a THANK YOU post for everyone here

"Cerise and her Giant DumDums (Unholy Trinity)"

I pulled myself to do a drawing to celebrate everyone here. With none other than my 3 Red head degenerates(what a shock), the Unholy Trinity.

Im not particularly happy that I reached 33, pretty much havent acomplished much in life, basically unemployed excluding my commission work that Ive been trying to keep cheap and afforfable for years, and in a very odd and kinda half-depressed mental state these months/year. BUT I do want to say that I appreciate everyone here, that joined in cause they saw fanart of a character they liked, maybe just really liked the artstyle or only a specific piece and stuck around, and expecially thanks to everyone that got in and stuck around for my 3 Vampire hunters and their shenanigans. It really means a lot to me, and I appreciate that people are getting a kick out of the dumb both in-setting and crossover stuff I do with them.

I might not say it often enough, but it truly means a lot.

Wish you all a pleasent whatever time of the day it is.

Also, context for the piece, Beth and Galmar are trying to solve a puzzle Cerise already figured out. She believes in them.

#Happy Birthday #Solikar #Unholy Trinity #Cerise Jarena #Beth Ravencoft #Galmar Berastok

Another indie survival horror game? If they aren't careful, these can be as bad as "boomer shooters" (puke), but I haven't hit my hard limit yet. This one is Ground Zero, which released a couple months ago, and I'll state up front that while it is a janky game, it tries enough new things to make it stand out a bit from all the other PS1-imitating Resident Evil wannabes. I've done a few runs in the game now, the first major patch fixed some bugs but many remain, so I've accepted the game as-is.

Here is my janky review of this janky game:

Goods: The basic survival horror formula works here, puzzles are decent (and they change depending on difficulty, puzzle difficulty and game difficulty get their own settings, which is good) and you explore a few cities in South Korea, a setting that isn't used as much as that overexposed island next door. The game uses a mix of pre-rendered backgrounds and untextured polygonal 3D environments, meaning the player's flashlight casts accurate shadows and you can even aim in first-person (with a simplified infrared scope to hide the lack of textures on 3D environments); I think it's a great compromise. Monsters and bosses look gross and trend towards aquatic, so expect lots of tentacles, which helps the game stand out that much more. The main player characters, Captain Jang Seo-Yeon and Lieutenant Evan Fielding, show more emotion than I expected from this type of game, they are professional soldiers but do let their feelings be known, and their voice acting is good enough to justify these cutscenes. The game has a very large amount of content, as the base game itself can easily take a dozen hours or more if you're thorough on exploring, and it does have a few branching paths (presented as binary choices). Some areas in the game are fairly linear while others involve lots of exploring and backtracking just like the RPD, Spencer Mansion, etc., so there's a good mix. There are quite a lot of guns to unlock and use, there are five endings (two "good" endings, two "bad" endings, and a joke ending), and there's even a Mercenaries-type of mode, Apocalypse Crisis (which plays more like the original RE3: Good Version kind, as in Operation: Mad Jackal, though with a few features from RE4/5 Mercs like time crystals). It is a long game for this genre, and you do get some value for your money. As usual, I do like the sounds in this game, the music is good and gunshots can be satisfyingly punchy, especially if you land a critical shot.

Mehs: While I applaud the game for trying new things, not all of them are winners. The combat system is super janky and throws a lot of complicated mechanics at the player. For example, aiming is like Resident Evil 4 with a free-aimed laser... except in fixed camera angles (you cannot rotate the camera around unlike Crow Country). This can lead to problems with aiming reliably. Also, there is a critical shot mechanic where you hold down a button (in addition to the aiming button) for a sliding bar minigame to appear on screen, requiring near-perfect timing to land a one-hit-kill on non-boss enemies (miss, which is very easy to do thanks to framerate jitters, and you'll just fire a normal shot which will enrage the enemy into running faster). This critical shot takes way too long to prepare and is very clunky. Also, there is a melee system, as you can block and, if timed correctly, parry and counter enemy melee hits. This doesn't always work out as intended as your counter-hit, a spin kick, does minimal damage, and enemies will just repeatedly lock you into blocking and countering over and over until you miss the timing. A few sections of the game also overstay their welcome, such as the notorious boat section (with fixed camera angles). The branching paths are also not created equal; for example, when given the choice between the hospital or police station, only the former gives the player a sidepack for expanding inventory space (while the latter gives earlier access to weapons the player will find later in the game anyway). As another example, later in the game the player has a choice of dodging left or right against a charging boss enemy, which determines where the player ends up next: either the derelict shopping mall, or the run-down zoo (which is... completely lacking in zambambo-fied zoo animals, disappointing). The healing system involves the player putting up to three vials (healing, antibodies, or... fitness boosters? Sure, Duke) into a syringe, which has to be used during gameplay (and the delay can and will get the player killed); but there is no benefit to mixing and matching colors, you need to put three of the same color to get the most benefit (permanent increases to the player's health, stamina, and poison resistance), and you cannot remove doses from the syringe. It's an interesting idea, but did not work out the greatest. While the story is decent, some of the game's cutscenes run way too long, almost into Metal Gear territory; there's also a major character, literally Ada Wong except Spanish, her accent is... a bit too over the top to take seriously. Finally, this is yet another indie survival horror going for retro aesthetics, and while for the most part the game does look good graphically, I have issues with one major design choice: the lack of lip animations. This game looks way too good to be a PS1-wannabe, and PS2 games definitely had lip animations (hell, there were plenty of PS1 games with moving lips, like Tomb Raider 4 and 5 for example), so it sticks out pretty badly, especially since the characters' eyes are animated and have some clear expression (they could have hidden the lips by giving Seo-Yeon an opaque face mask like the other characters get, but no, she has a clear mask).

Bads: The game is still very buggy, some of them are nuisances (like enemy corpses floating up into the sky after being kicked to death) and others are very seriously bad, like crappy to non-existent hit detection on some guns (the Serbu shorty shotgun is near-useless and I have seen one enemy in Apocalypse Crisis consistently spawn in as immune to bullets, like not even any hit registration, bullets just don't even interact with it). Character models also have issues like characters' hands clipping into their bodies during cutscenes, and the secondary playable character, Even, has bits of his gear just floating around him when aiming or climbing pipes, it can look pretty bad, if not unfinished. Framerate can chug sometimes which is puzzling in a game imitating retro aesthetics (that's the Unreal engine for you). Menus can also bug out when using a controller, thankfully the PC version has simultaneous gamepad/KBM input but it's still a problem.

Also, at some point, you really need to wonder, how bad is the flood of all these similar survival horror indie games going to get?

Overall though, I do recommend Ground Zero if you can deal with some jank. It's not a carbon copy of Resident Evil but with some indie developer's own twist on it, this game in my opinion tries enough new things to stand out, even if the execution wasn't all there.

I need a break from the horror games, I should parkour my way over to something else.

#Ground Zero #Malformation Games #Kwalee

kakemakes

Wanted to do a RE-draw of one of the original 1998 Resident Evil comic covers by Jim Lee

Do not Repost. Support from Ko-fi VGEN

#Resident Evil #Biohazard #Jill Valentine #Chris Redfield

valenfield-inspo

RESIDENT EVIL 3: NEMESIS (1999) / RESIDENT EVIL: CODE VERONICA (2000)

#Resident Evil #Biohazard #Resident Evil 3: Nemesis #Resident Evil Code: Veronica #here's hoping they don't fuck up Re-Veronica

Tormented Souls 2 used to be my most-anticipated game, since I loved the first one so much (bought it back in 2022 to celebrate being hired at my then-new job), and since I bought the first game on GOG, I wanted to buy the second game on that store, too. Then came the sequel's Steam launch last year, and... in complete silence, the GOG version was delayed by five months. Then I finally got to play it, many months late, and the launch version of the game ran like dogshit. Unreal Engine doing what it does best (stuttering), lots of bugs, it was shitty. Then, a few months later, they patched the game and... patched it again, and broke it. Yay.

Anyway, the game works now, I beat it again, the horrible stuttering (my biggest complaint that made the whole game feel awful to play) was fixed, I have a working game now, that's good enough for me. So I have beaten it twice, first time on normal (in the buggy and stuttery GOG launch version), and the second time on "assisted" (easy) for cleaning up some achievements. There is an unlockable "Tormented" difficulty which I have not played yet, I'm saving that for the future, after I replay the first game.

Now it's time for my nonsensical review.

Goods: This is "classic" style survival horror (tank controls, mostly fixed cameras, etc) at its best. I have played way too many indie survival horror Resident Evil wannabes, and this one has by far the smoothest gameplay, though not without its issues (more on that later). The puzzles are good, some of the most satisfying I've experienced, I did not need a guide except for one specific point (more on that one later, too), and the game's monsters and bosses are a challenge, very threatening, disturbing enough to stand out among the many other zambambo-filled RE wannabes. Graphically, this is the peak of modern indie survival horror, as a whole the game is beautiful, lighting and shadows are used to great effect, environments look great (in full 3D with smooth cameras too) and character models also look great. Leading lady Caroline Walker is back, and looks better than ever. The voice acting is also a step up from the first game, and while I liked that game's cheesy voices, TS2 gives much greater performances. The story is good, focusing on Caroline rescuing her newly-rescued younger* sister Anna from an evil woman masquerading as a nun, Mother Lucia. There are a few important NPCs to meet and quite a few haunted locations to explore (a giant convent and cathedral, a run-down fish-processing plant, a creepy graveyard, an empty mall and devastated shopping district, and even a dark and twisted school). Like the first game, Caroline also travels to the "Other Side", an evil alternate dimension where everything is a rusted, industrial hellscape, and this game takes it further with more disturbing visuals. The game controls great, it has hybrid tank (on the Dpad) and modern (left stick) controls when using a gamepad, but you can also do tank-only, I just wish it had full rebinding instead of only three presets. Music is nice and creepy (and occasionally wet), weapons sound good, the audio-visual experience is overall good. Also, in a break from survival horror games, you get a bottomless inventory just like the first TS, no item chests, Caroline carries everything with her at all times. One new addition over the first game is having four quickslots for weapons or certain utility items (lighter, metal detector), which is nice.

Mehs: There are some issues with presentation however. The lip animations, while normally good, do occasionally go out of synch which destroys the immersion (this happens even in the game's very first opening cutscene), but compared to all the endless PS1-imitating horror games out there (with poor or no lip synching), I still appreciate the effort put into the animations. Also, the game does occasionally stutter when traversing levels, but it is a gigantic improvement over the launch version, where even examining objects in the menu would turn the game into a slideshow (while external frame counters like GOG Galaxy or Nvidia Overlay claimed the game was maintaining 60, it felt more like 15). While the puzzles overall are good, some of them do lean too much into very specific knowledge that the game assumes the player has, mostly around important Christian themes like the Three Wise Men or the crown of thorns (the first game also had this issue with a certain puzzle). To be fair, the game is set in and around a cathedral and players have access to the internet. They can figure it out. For combat, there is a dodge move, which sometimes can be counter-intuitive (e.g. running from a giant character swinging a giant hammer most likely will result in the player getting hit, but hopping backwards with the dodge move will give enough i-frames to miraculously escape damage), but it works way the heck better than something like Resident Evil 3 (where the dodge move's effectiveness depends on the player's real-life horoscope).

Bads: While I was fortunate enough to not have any major bugs on my second playthrough, a quick glance at the Steam forum indicates that they are still there (missing key items and such). On my first run, the worst problem was that, when healing during a boss fight, Caroline's movement would become corrupted and she'd be unable to run or walk, only do short, choppy steps (obviously this is a huge problem in a boss fight). On my second run, I did not test this because I was aiming for the "Untouchable" achievement, which requires beating the game without healing more than once (I unlocked it, woo), so it could still be there. Also, while the story is good, it does have some problems, the biggest and most glaring plothole is the second-to-last boss fight against a pig-masked fellow, where you will witness two important NPCs become seriously injured by the boss... after somehow teleporting into its room, through a locked door that you the player just opened (and one of the NPCs was even in the room with you as you unlocked the door and deliberately chose to stay behind). Oh, there are two endings, one of them is a huge downer while the other good ending has zero clues that it's even possible (unless the player looked at the achievement list to know that there is a good ending). The puzzle itself is easy (backtracking to an area near the start of the game to break a wall with a mid-game weapon, get the key item, and hold onto it), it's just the player having zero clues that he/she has to ignore the flow of the story after a very emotional moment and go out of Caroline's way to return to a certain other room in order to use said item, that's the problem. At least it was a good callback to a specific moment from the first game, and also, thank the Lord for "spoiler-free" ending guides. One other item for the "bad" column is the game's inventory menu, which is... fine, but looks way too basic compared to the first game; I play indie games to get away from RE Engine trash, get rid of that minimalist garbage and give me proper chunky survival horror inventory menus (like the first TS game had). Finally, I have seen complaints that the latest patched version of the game was downgraded graphically, and while most of the game looked fine to me, I can confirm the game's good ending now looks horrible, I don't want to spoil anything but it reminds me of old PS360 games with their terrible attempts at ambient occlusion.

Also I do have to say it, this game features the absolute worst example of gun safety (or lack thereof) in one of its cutscenes and you just need to see it to believe it.

Overall, even with the game's problems (and whoever's in charge of the GOG version dropped the ball pretty hard), it's still a good game, one of the best indie survival horrors just like the first game, and its polished gameplay and graphics (as a whole, warts and all) put this game above the ever-increasing flood of me-too PS1-aesthetic-overusing Resident Evil ripoffs. I'd put this game about on the same level as Echoes of the Living (and that game isn't even finished) as far as "traditional" survival horror games to, better in some ways but worse in others, still great. My favorite overall though is probably Wicked Seed (more of a Parasite Eve-like than a Resident Evil-like), that one surprised me.

And once again, I still want to plead my case to all the indie developers out there: we have enough survival horror games with Playstation 1 aesthetics. It's almost as bad as fucking "boomer shooters" (barf). We don't need another Resident Evil. We need another Eternal Darkness, please do that. Where's the Gamecube nostalgia?

#Tormented Souls #Tormented Souls 2 #Caroline Walker #Dual Effect #PQube

That's how you know the economy is doing poorly. Children can't even enjoy a nice cold one anymore.

#Tormented Souls #Tormented Souls 2 #Caroline Walker #Cerveza Cristal meme

bringbackwendellvaughn

#Claire Redfield #Resident Evil #Resident Evil 2 #Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles #I miss Alyson Court version of Claire

After putting so many hours into Ace Combat 7 (campaign/free mission only, I have zero interest in multiplayer), I decided to go back to the only other Ace-like game I own, Project Wingman. But, instead of doing the campaign again, I decided to finally give the Conquest mode another chance.

It's a huge slog. I got decently far with the actual best real-life combat plane, the F-15C Eagle, then switched to the game's "F/S-15" which is a hypothetical single-seat F-15 ACTIVE, a bummer because it's a two-seater in real life (when are we getting the F-15EX Eagle II in games, put that shid in Pwingman II, Prez's butt deserves to be in the Eagle II's WSO seat and I will accept nothing less), and then Pwingman's horribly poor F-22 substitute, the VX-23 (they bullpupped the F-22... why, Shug?). I got far enough to get spammed by F/A-18E's with rapid-fire railguns, and decided... it's time I finally fly the game's super-plane.

Even in Ass Combat 7, I barely touched any of the fictional super-planes (Strike Wyvern and the... three from older games I never played, that came with the DLC pass), and I barely remember if I tried Pwingman's own super-plane on my original run in 2020 (I did try the not-so-super plane, the Chimaera, that I found to be awful; I should give it a second chance too). The PW Mk I though, that's a beef supreme of a plane, super twitchy and imprecise, but its Macross spam missiles are nice, and when its railgun isn't sabotaged by the Xbox controller's Alicorn-sized dead zone, it's also nice.

But yes, the Conquest mode itself. I like the context of conquering a big map piece by piece (reminds me I should reinstall Dawn O' War: Dark Crusade some day), but the battles got super repetitive towards the end. Like the rest of the game, I had more fun with the mini-Conquest mode included in the Kickstarter demo all those years ago. Still though, I'm glad I finally went back to play it again. I should also try the campaign on Mercenary difficulty finally, too (I'm aware Kickstarter demo Mercenary difficulty and actual released game Mercenary difficulty are by far two different things). And yes, I do much prefer the flight model in Pwingman, I find Ass Combat 7 over-relies on the "High-G turn" and I like the (for lack of better word) more realistic feeling of Pwingman. I do like both games to be fair (and Ass Combat 8 is a very distant "maybe" for me, I am not preordering).

Oh yeah, I won.