![]() Is it worth the price of admission? I would say so, if you haven’t played the original though, I would suggest starting there, it is a much more trimmed down version of MCD. Whilst it might get a little lengthy as you try and knock out the final few nodes, it never fails to make you feel like a badass. The game certainly succeeds in offering more of what fans loved about the original and the concept remains as novel as ever. ![]() However, this does not mean that it is worth any less of your time. Pulling together an overall verdict for Superhot: Mind Control Delete is a little tricky, as I say, I received it for free after supporting the initial release. If you start this title, do not use the “hot switch” (body swap) on an enemy who is just entering the arena, you get booted out, without warning and have to start all over again. Needless to say I was gutted and packed it in for the night. Lastly, there was one instance where my entire progress through a level was lost, this resulted in 15 consecutive shoot outs being lost as I was completing the final gauntlets of the game. I was never quite sure what triggered these skips, but they were frequent enough for me to make a note in this review. I also encountered several instances of frame skips, which was definitely unnerving given the entire premise of the game revolves around making every frame count. There are some long initial loading sequences when booting up the title which often made me question whether it had crashed, the inclusion of some kind of loading progress image might have helped alleviate this worry. If you get punched by the glowing red dude, that’s on you.Īll of this praise being said, MCD is not without it’s hiccups. Bullets, enemies, proximity mines, they are all bright red, which pops so starkly against the bright, clinical backgrounds, there is no room for misinterpretation. When these are picked up you can throw them at an enemy who will then drop the item they have equipped – an essential manoeuvre as you will soon learn. When an object is coloured in this way, you can pick it up, this ranges from a baseball bat, a shuriken, a cocktail glass, to of course, the guns. White cannot be interacted with in any way either, thereby, if something is white, you don’t need to worry about what function the parked care might have, you already know.īlack is a colour reserved for interactable elements (and yourself). ![]() White designates elements which block your path, whether this is walls, a parked car, sculpture or whatever. How to decode a screenshot of Superhot is as follows: This allows for situations to be read at a moments notice and whilst it might look visually bland at face value, this is integral to the experience. ![]() Everything is coloured in one of three colours. In any other game, a system which requires the throwing of multiple items, enemies pouring in from all sides would be a visual and audio nightmare to decode, Superhot does not have this problem. When a section goes by as smooth as butter, to see your graceful killing spree over the span of a few seconds, yeah, you feel like Jo-, you feel like Jason Bourne. Best of all though, after each level, your actions are replayed in real-time, similar to Super Meat Boy I guess, this leads to your self-admiration of “yeah, I am a badass”. It is the kind of gameplay which suits me down to the ground, lacking the twitch reflexes necessary to pull something this ludicrous off in something like Call of Duty. A simple elevator pitch, right? This means that firefights can be much more tactical as you weave around incoming bullets, fire one back, throw your gun at another foe, pick up a plant pot and smash it over some else’s head – all of this in a moment of real time gameplay stretched out over 10 to 15 seconds. Superhot is a monochrome FPS, whereby the gimmick is that time moves only when you move. As much as I adore those movies, I ain’t no sheep, so I will try my best to complete this entire review without referencing Keanu Reeves. Whenever I describe this game to friends, and throughout many reviews that I have seen online, they all refer to John Wick. ![]()
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