/vr/ - Retro Games

You really have to play this game a lot to get into the gameplay groove I think. It's one of those games you must play for years to actually appreciate. I didn't think the fast swimming was very fitting with the awful puzzle block puzzle shit and enemy ambushes in corridors this game puts you through. I enjoyed the sections you have to jump and swim fast (even those infamous jumps in the library), but that's not even like 10% of the game. As soon as the game makes you push that seashell into stones in the beginning caves I knew I wasn't gonna enjoy this game. It's like threading a needle but with a jackhammer. And of course the game culminates in a horrid autoscroller full of ambushes. I beat the Machine legit twice, and the worst thing is, after you beat it, the transition to the vortex queen is very disorienting, looks like a glitch and sends you flying towards one of those alien dudes.... which can kill you in one hit before you even realize what the fuck happened. That has to be intentional.

Game shoulda have more open sections and shit, not be full of tight underwater corridors being precariously chased by non-animated crab pngs. Sounds great, looks amazing, just thinking about playing it again is giving me agitta. I was playing the M2 port and I think I gave up entirely on beating it legit during the prehistory stages, started doing savestates. Some of those are just so long and tricky and awful. Game's just not fun most of the time, I am glad I took the time to play it and know what it is but I just never want to see that fucking Asterite fight ever again lmao.

>make it to the end of The Machine
>transitions to the next stage in a very confusing sequence, looks like a glitch
>game spawns you on a collision course with an alien mook that might very well kill you in 1 hit
>"here's the final boss btw your health regen powers no longer work surprise"

The little respect I had left for this game just evaporated