Godbeast Mk.II

If games were deemed good or bad simply based on if its literally the coolest ♥♥♥♥ ever, then Godbeast Mk. II : Howl in the Moonlight is one of the greats. Unfortunately there's more to a game than aurafarming, and The Godbeast 2 is not one of the greats. I'd still recommend it to anyone since it's cheap and there's decent playtime to get out of it, but there is quite a bit of jank and the opening levels are pretty dry, just punch the guys until they die for a good couple hours. It only really starts to catch the player after you beat the first area and the story begins to unfold. The game keeps a 360/ps3 era hack n slash formula throughout, but has some fun little abilities and mechanics to discover. Some of the bosses have fun attack patterns, and the game is in that goldilocks zone of just punishing enough where it can really throw some curveballs at you to keep you on your toes in a fight without boiling down to being unscripted QTE's. The art direction of the game is the star of course, every battle is framed from dramatic angles and the game leans into a fixed camera perspective, yet never commits to a degree where angles would interrupt the flow of movement. There's a lot of weird decisions the game makes, there's an optional boss that boosts your health, and I don't know if its intentional but you can just keep fighting him until your health bar runs past the edge of the screen and presumably continues to grow. The level's are unlocked in a non-linear fashion, yet aren't anachronous to the point where you could say the game is straight point A to point B and I'd believe you. The little secret goon you can find in every non-boss level most the time has nothing of value to say, most the secret messages are very methodically explaining mechanics that you learn in the beginning of the game when its explaining the controls to you. But the game looks REALly cool.