Only Lead Can Stop Them

Things to keep in mind before playing: Vertical assist should be off, as well as vertical aiming, tho this won't help you get headshots, at least you'll be able to aim at the enemy. REVIEW COMPLETE LOG 1 I was gonna at least finish Episode 1 but I kinda get the idea Let's start with the good: - Enemies (Great variety, cool enemies) - Weapon Variety - Music (Good oldschool style retro shooter vibe) The mixed: - Graphics (Design is great on most things, but enemies seem way too large. Am I playing with some 5 ft 7 guy killing everyone in fascist Spain?) - Overall Sound (weak sounds especially for weapons, but good barks from the dogs, and other enemies, while some enemies could sound a lot "cooler" - especially since they look so big, give them bigger grunts - Level design (could've been better in some locations. Can just walk thru big green blocks sometimes. (level 4) , i like the progression on the map so far, but some levels get confusing and boring by level 6 Now the bad: - Weapons feel like they're shooting pellets. The shotgun is an embarrassment. Guns don't have any impact or proper velocity. - Gore. Where's the gore at? Modern retro shooters should at least have what the old ones didn't (destructible heads on headshots, body dismemberment, think brutal doom style - I mean come on man, like they didn't even make sprites for the immolated enemies when you burn them with the flamethrower. Lazy) - I think overall it focuses too much on trying to be a game from the 90's when it's not. It's 2025, make weapons more fun, add secondary fire for each weapon since there's only 7 (9 technically but 1 is a knife and 9 is a dynamite) - The movement is awkward too, kinda like oldschool Doom, where when you let go of the arrow the character still slightly walks towards that direction. Make customizable/level up weapons, idk there's so much you can add man. You want proper boomer shooter/retro try Cultist or Warlock, there's many others out there. Until/if they ever add some new features to this game I'm not planning on finishing it, maybe I'll finish episode 1 so I "kind of get my money's worth" but if there ever is a second instalment or an update in the future, please do something about the state of this game. There's serious potential that just falls short in the end. LOG 2: Changed the review from negative to positive. Why? For some reason I keep wanting to play the game, so I decided to give it another go and try finishing the first episode. Its fun, not gonna lie, but the main issues are still there. It's got a lot of good things going on for it but very old school, after finishing the first episode. There could be more tasks, or challenges or destruction on the enemies. You can't even jump, which is awful for a game like this. I wish I could strafe to dodge bullets or do cooler things. Playing this game is like having a big **** and not being able to use it properly. I finished episode 1, after E1M9 had a major bug in the beginning where the elevator wouldn't go down, so I had to load a previous save and finsih E1M8 again to bypass that. I got used to the size of the enemies and the grunts are not bad, but the guns are awful in terms of sounds. Grenade launcher is a joke. They're fun to use but have nothing behind them. Finally learned how to use the flamethrower properly. Parts of the maps are missing, like you can see thru the bottom of certain sections and there's lots of bugs when it comes to the enemies, sometimes their corpse will be hanging in mid air or dogs get stuck in doors. However, the game is fun and I'm coming back to finish episode 2, which looks like fun since you're in a war zone. More coming. LOG 3: Episode 2 is interesting with having some allies on your side in the first missions. I'm playing as the female protagonist but nothing really changes other than the HUD it shows her instead and the grunts are either done by a woman or a little kid, I can't tell. Could've made the Conviction aspect of the game function differently for each character, that would've been cool. Grenade launcher sucks since sometimes there's invisible barriers in windows and it just explodes in my character's face and kills me. LOG 4: Finished Episode 2. Onto the 3rd. Lost at E3M3 and there's some fire cultists glitching in a wall killing me when I walk by 😂 LOG 5: Finished Episode 3. I'm just happy to be done with this game. Final boss is pretty cool, throw those dynamites in its mouth. Many glitches with the maps up until there. Game doesn't feel remotely finished. FINAL VERDICT: Due to poor choices when it comes to variety in this game, it gets a negative review. There's nothing interesting to do other than finish the levels. You can grab medals to improve certain aspects, mainly just extra ammo for individual weapons. Conviction acts the same for both characters so nothing really changes when you pick the guy or the girl. Glitches all over the place. NPCS get stuck in walls, other portions of the map. More than 5 levels were hard to complete because they got a little confusing. No impact on the weapons, not able to blow up heads or do anything cool. 1 death animation per NPC. Can't even put them on fire when burning them. Weapons could have an alternate fire mode, could have a level up system or something interesting. Good things include great enemy design, setting, weapon variety, good music, some good level design, 3 episodes. Cheats available if you get stuck. That's about it. I still finished it. I want to encourage the developers to make a second game that fixes all these issues. Take some notes from Warlock/Cultic

Not a perfect game, it has its rough edges, but I'm still having a great time with this Doom / Wolfenstein game set in the Spanish Civil War. What stands out most are its good looking sprites and the soundtrack, which is quite punchy. The setting is powerful, with enemies, period weapons, levels decorated with posters and legends based on real ones, and even the items we use. Because, yes, we all recover life with a first aid kit, but eating paella or Iberian ham to heal yourself only happens here. The levels are large and lend themselves to both rushing or exploring them entirely. They also include a bit of interesting features, such as stealth, enemy vehicles, and allied units, which help to give the feeling of being in a real war. IMO, it's more than approved, but please note that a demo is available so you can see for yourselves. [quote] [i] Check out [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44959158-Critiques-Sans-Frontiers/] our curator page [/url] to discover more decent indie games. [/i] [/quote]

You know a game's in trouble when the review starts with a praise of its soundtrack. Well, this game has some awesome music. Everything else, unfortunately, is pretty bad. The movement is awkward, with a slight inertia, like you're piloting a massive mecha that needs a moment to accelerate or stop. The weapons are overpowered, killing most enemies with ease, but also feel like toys because of their plain animation and sound. The enemies are dull, with very simple animations so they move and fall like cardboard cutouts, and frequently just don't wake up despite you shooting right next to them. The level geometry is a bit off, so the enemies keep getting stuck in corners, bullets get stopped by invisible collisions, and you keep seeing the geometry outside the level (and sometimes get stuck in it, or fall through it to your death). The levels themselves are vast, but sparcely populated, with enemies just present here and there, only rarely making for any interesting encounters. The third chapter has the most interesting levels, but is also the buggiest, with glaring oversights that shout lack of testing. Overall, can't recommend.

The guy who made the music literally gave his all. Stuff is hot as surface of Sun. Sadly same cannot be said from the rest of the game. -Movement is rather sluggish for such open and massive sprawling levels -These massive levels contain lot of places to rummage through, but with minimal or no rewards as all. Why make all these cathedrals and barracks with interiors and all if your reward is just few pistol clips and bag of ammo which you are not going to run out in this game anyway? -Dev clearly missed the point of what made games like these good. Making massive realistic harbor with pixel graphics is cool and all, but if you spend 20 minutes going like "...the f am I supposed to go?" until you reach a random button just opens the exit next to it? Why give all those keys and buildings in map if nothing rewards you. -Enemy alert sounds maybe? Some "Schutstaffel!" or "Maranax Pallex!" could make the player react to stuff nearby. The dogs do bark and seem to alert from end of the map. -The game gives so much ammo for the rifle so you can just main it as it also seem to one shot most of the enemies even on highest difficulty. tl;dr: The maps are wide as an ocean, but deep as a puddle. Same with the overall gameplay feeling. I do understand the slower pace of Wolfenstein 3D, but something here is missing. Shame for such interesting aesthetic in retro shooter (Spanish Civil War) to be wasted like this.

三章全隐藏收集通关。说说槽点： hitbox有大问题，时不时没判定，在打飞起来的大蝙蝠时尤为明显。 地图设计方面中规中矩，在部分大地图关卡无意义的区域太多，有些地方甚至是空房间，进去什么都没有。另外部分地图敌人能攻击穿墙。

[h1]94年に出ていた…かもしれない「Wolfenstein 3D」クローン[/h1] [b]世にも珍しい「スペイン内戦」を題材とした、ファシスト軍団を薙ぎ払うレトロ風FPS。[/b] とは言っても史実のスペイン内戦はファシスト、すなわちフランコ側が勝利しているし、対する共和国軍サイドは裏にソ連がいるしで連合vs枢軸(ナチス)のような勧善懲悪ではないので中々描くのが難しい。 本作でも「ファシストをぶちのめせ」的なコトは言っているものの、実際は謎のカルト教団およびファンタジー要素を盛り込むことで政治的主張は雑にぼかされている。 その結果、明確にスペイン内戦と言える要素は「主人公の武器がスペイン製のアストラ600やイギリスから輸入されたヴィッカース機関銃」「所々にファランヘ党のマークがある」ぐらいしかない。概ねWWIIゲームといった感じなので、そのあたりはあまり期待しない方が良いかもしれない。 [h1]Wolfenstein 3Dが『DOOM』の技術力で正統進化を遂げていたら…？[/h1] 本作は1990年代にアメリカで発売された…風の内容となっており、グラフィックなどもそれ相応の出来映え。流石に操作性やなんかは現代的にできるが、レベルデザインなどは当時っぽい感じの鍵集め型になっている。 またマップは主に正方形で構成されており古めかしい印象。もともとWolf3Dの次回作である『DOOM』が1993年に、Wolfenstein 3Dとなるはずだった『Rise of the Triad』が1994年に発売されているので、本作は「もしid SoftwareがDOOMを作らずに続編を作り続けていたら…？」「もしRise of the Triadが二次大戦FPSのまま完成していたら…？」というifに近いものがある。 当時のid software製ゲームの例に漏れず、本編を構成する3つのエピソードはそれぞれ独立して存在する方式。ゲームは任意セーブ・ロードが可能で、各エピソードごとに所有武器はリセットされる。 非線形のオープンフィールド型マップ、リロードシステム、パーティクルによるゴア表現なども90年代当時ぎりぎり実現できそうな技術が使われており、それっぽさのクオリティはそこそこ高い。 [h1]他ではあまり見慣れない、テーマならではの変わった武器種[/h1] 主人公は共和国サイドの兵士として、フランコ率いるファシスト反乱軍とその裏にいる謎のカルト勢力を倒すべく各地を戦い抜いていく。 武器としては銃剣、ピストル、サブマシンガン、ショットガン、ライフル、火炎放射器、マシンガン、ライフルグレネード、ダイナマイトの9種類が登場。ピストルがアストラ600という現在ではややマイナーな拳銃だったり、ライフルがボルトアクションだったりと時代相応のラインナップとなっている。 90年代FPSにしては珍しくプロジェクタイル弾で処理され、リロードシステムも完備。ショットガンは弾数が少なく、ライフルは装填が遅く、火炎放射器は巻き込まれやすく、マシンガンは取り回しが悪い…といった、武器それぞれの癖もあり、使いこなすのが楽しい。 [h1]良くも悪くも忠実にリスペクトされた、出来不出来の差が大きい各種エピソード[/h1] 本作は基本的に見た目通りのWolfenstein 3Dクローンであり、Wolfenstein 3Dのクローンとはつまり平面的な迷路マップをひたすら進むだけの殺風景なゲームである。本作もエピソード1の終わりごろまではまさにそういった感じで、正直なところ今遊んでもあまり面白いと感じられる内容ではない。 しかしエピソード2あたりからたまにオープンフィールドで塹壕戦や軍事基地攻略を行うパートが用意されるようになり、これはきちんと面白い内容。機銃掃射を避けながら塹壕を駆け抜けてトーチカを焼き払ったり、時折現れる戦車に苦戦したり、時には友軍と共に進軍したり…と、かの「メダルオブオナー」の楽しいパートのようなゲーム体験を味わうことができるようになっている。 しかしそういった楽しいマップも割合としては少な目で、後半になってもステージの多くは平坦な迷路構成。 部分的に「そうでない場所」がよく出来ているだけに、「Wolf3Dのクローンゲームであること」に惜しさを感じてしまう内容だ。 [h1]悪くはないけど、愛を受け止められるかが問われる[/h1] 特徴的なグラフィックや一部マップの楽しい野外環境など、楽しめる要素は用意されている一作。 ただし「90年代風」というテーマに囚われているが故の問題点も部分的に見受けられ、そういった部分ではやや難があるかもしれない。 また敵兵のすり抜けバグなどもちらほら存在しており、初期設定ではフリーエイムが無効になっているなど微妙に遊びづらい内容。 『Wolfenstein 3D』や『DOOM』、『Rise of The Triad』といったタイトルのお約束を良くも悪くもきちんと守っているので、適切に評価するには先にそのあたりの理解を進めておく必要がある。が、分かっている人であれば開発陣のやりたかったことはダイレクトに伝わってくるだろう。見た目の割にやや敷居の高いタイトル。 [b]ゲームを快適に遊ぶための諸設定[/b] 本作はインターフェイスが日本語に対応している。日本語に切り替えたい場合はメインメニュー左下の国旗をクリックして日の丸を選択することで切り替えが可能。 また、デフォルト設定のままゲームを始めると上下視点変更ができないのだが、開始時に「垂直マウスルック(Vertical Mouselook)」をオンに切り替えておくことでマウスを用いて快適に遊ぶことが出来るようになる。 たぶん開発陣としてはフリーエイムなど90年代には存在しない！という意志があったと思われるが、正直これがあるとないとではオープンフィールドでの快適さが大違いなのでなるべくオンにしておこう。

A flawed but still fun Wolfenstein-3D like. I recommend you turn off V-sync, cap the FPS to 60, exit the game and start the game up again. It was noticeably stuttering and mouse look felt off before I did those things. While this helps, Only Lead Can Stop Them for the entire playthrough still had enough issues that made the overall experience feel like it needed another layer of polish. Glitches, achievement bugs (I beat the game on hard and it didn't give me the achievement), sometimes nonexistent enemy AI, and inconsistent hit registration when shooting enemies (especially when they're unaware and diagonal from you) just to name a few. Even without the technical issues it's not perfect. Even on the hardest difficulty it wasn't too challenging and I never was short on ammo (Plus I rarely used the supernatural ability). To counter this each episode introduced a new enemy that felt cheap to deal with (riflemen and shotgunners in particular). These aren't deal breakers but worth pointing out. HOWEVER the core gameplay of Only Lead Can Stop Them is still fun especially if you have any love or nostalgia for Wolfenstein 3-D. Your guns pack a satisfying DOSBox punch. You can't take much damage encouraging you to move through the levels slower. It's like a long lost Wolf 3D sequel set in the Spanish Civil War with a banger soundtrack. Very unlikely it'll be your favorite indie retro FPS but it's still worth a look and one playthrough. If it had more time to refine its gameplay and polish things on the technical side it could have been great. Instead it's just okay. Get it on sale.

From the screenshots and trailer it seemed like a fusion between Wolf 3D and Cultic pretty cool I thought and since it didn't cost much I took the bait. Now right off the bat let me just say The music is good The variety in weapons is perfect The levels look amazing The gameplay loop is what you'd expect from a game like this Now what went wrong? HORRIBLE Sluggish movement, you feel like a snail in those vast open spaces and I thought maybe I have to press a run key or toggle something like I did in Classic doom but no its by design Pathetic input feedback I shoot a gun but sometimes it doesn't even do anything as if it was processing my previous input and discarded the new one entirely The vast open spaces and interiors are a good design choice but what's the point of exploring if there is nothing that rewards it? A few places do have some decent loot like ammo but most of it is just empty When these problems stack up on top of each other this stops feeling like a fun game but instead it feels like a chore to do Hard pass 4.5/10

A decent throwback and a good time.

This is one of the best Wolfenstein 3D-clones I've ever played. A good boomer shooter experience with a surprising level of craftmanship and customization.