Re.Surs

Я честно пытался получить удовольствие от этой игры. Но тут слишком много разнообразных косяков и кривостей. И я все-ж не выдержал и забросил её. [code]Вступай в [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/DreamsofGenesis]группу[/url] и [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/11769719/]кураторку[/url], если понравилось читать отзыв. [/code] И начну я с того что, худо-бедно удерживало меня за игрой. 1 Визуал. Есть у меня слабость к пиксельному визуалу, и почти всегда выношу его в плюс. Вот и тут это не станет искючением. 2 Отсылки на разное. Приятно смотря\играя во что-то наблюдать отсылки к другим произведениям. Но это не только плюс, но ещё и минус - но об этом чуть позже. А теперь - время поругать. И тут у меня глаза аж разбегаются. А хотя знаю... 1 Раз уж заговорили про отсылки, то о них и продолжим. Отсылки приятны когда их в меру, и когда они слегка заметны. А тут "отсылки" уровня литературы 90-х. Ну помните когда на волне хайпа с книгами "Гпрри Поттер", начали штамповать по 100500 книг с названиями аля - "Таня Гроттер", "Ларин Петр" или "Пори Гаттер"? Вот и тут так-же. 2 Постоянные "Ре.". Да кто-то скажет - да ты просто докапываешься. И я отвечу - ДА! Но разве не для того мы все делаем или смотрим обзоры? Чтоб посмотреть кто, как и насколько сильно до*бется до какой-либо игры. Так вот. У нас есть куча разных слов, к которым просто клеют приставку "Ре.", именно с точкой. И не знаю кому как, но меня это начало напрягать ещё в начале игры. 3 Текст. Ну как текст. Части текста которые постоянно то дергаются, то шатаются волной, но ещё что. И ладно бы это выделяло какие-то важные моменты, но нет. В большей степени это просто случайные слова, которым наклеили эффектов. Ну ладно, мелких придирок озвучил, пока и к более крупным переходить. 4 Герои и их различия. Есть в игре 3 героя(ну до туда до куда я дотерпел игру), которые якобы должны различаться. Но по сути, они одинаковые. Что-ж они могут? У каждого есть Н способности. 1) Выстрел - ну тут не нужно быть 7 пядей во лбу чтоб понять. Если не поняли - идите в Doom:ethernal, там вам объяснят. 2) Шит - и он тоже не меняется. 3) Рывок\Портал\Крюк - по сути все это уклонения от урона. Которые просто чуть по разному анимированы. Хотя на фоне других выделяется портал. Он сломан. Частенько если попытаться кинуть его недалеко от стены и телепортироваться, можно просто застрять в ней. 4) Шокер\Пульс\Дрон - а тут выделяется только дрон. Ведь это дополнительный урон. А остальные способности на 90% бесполезны. 5) Ульт. И полезный он только у бабы из Control. У Лары...ой простите - Хельги...это просто небольшой баф. У невнятного чела - стан вокруг себя. И только Детектив - убивает всех и вся. Ну хоть в чем-то значимое отличие у героев. 5 Геймплей. Он максимально простой и максимально скучный. Игра пытается в шутемап, но ничего не выходит. Потому что все что может герой(помимо спелов) это ходить вперед и назад...все. Даже е*аного прыжка не завезли. Вот и выходит что абсолютно каждый бой работает по одной схеме: Забиваешься в угол и отстреливаешь все что подходит -> как только враги подобрались слишком близко, паров рывков перебираешься в другой конец карты и повторяешь прошлый шаг. И так пока враги не кончатся. 6 Разбавляющие моменты. Есть один момент в старом сериале "Клан Сопрано". Где сидит дедок и слезно выдает - "Ой, какая-ж это все *уйня! Какой смысл...Я так больше не могу...." Это самое простое описание меня в такие моменты. Просто авторы либо решили вы*бнуться, либо понимали насколько скучный у них выходит геймплей и такие: -А давайте запилим разных ситуаций? -А почему бы нет?! И добавили покатушки на мотоцикле(в которых иногда сломаны хитбоксы, но чтоб было не так обидно - весь уровень забит чекпоинтами) Добавили уровень с "платформингом"(ага...умно...платформинг в игре, в которой даже с*ка прыжка нету...) И тот из-за которого я бросил игру. Уровень со стелсом. (Ну тот прекрасный стелс, где если вас заметили вы сразу труп) И стелс тут сломан. Ведь вас могут заметить не только в свете(как вообще-то должно работать), но и в тени. А иногда даже будучи на свету - вас не видно. Как это вообще бл*ть работает? Пожалуй я лучше остановлюсь. А то я мог-бы притянуть ещё пару пунктов, но с неё довольно. Я думаю, если вы не сильно придирчивый игрок - со скидочкой, можно дать игре шанс. Но я считаю что за эти деньги можно было-бы найти что-то более...интересное.

Quite a cool game, of course not without drawbacks. cool stuff: 1. Lots of action, especially in the end. Almost Serious Sam sometimes, but you always have proper gun to destroy demons. 2. Some bosses remind old good game console games. 3. Surprisingly lots of stuff for indie game - several main characters, lots of guns, lots of demons 4. Complex and interesting plot, but sometimes there is a feeling like watching Dune without reading book - very interesting, but understood nothing. 5. One of plot twist in the middle reminded me half life, that was quite cool. 6. 5.5 hours of game play for this price - this is crazy! Bad stuff: 1. The first and the one of the last bosses hard as hell. But you can just turn the easy mode on them. 2. Quite difficult battle mechanics - you can't jump but you can use shield 3. Pixel art is okay-ish, but you don't pay attention on it during killing demons Instead of summary: Yeah, seks is cool, but have you tried to defeat the first boss from the first try?

I played this during Steam Next Fest and the demo really grabbed my attention. The game itself however, fails to live up to the promise of that demo. After the first hour I found myself just trying to push through because it feels like a game of passion. The art is beautiful, the music is great, and the story is interesting even if it's a bit difficult to follow at times. But man, the gameplay is a frustrating experience. Combat consists of shooting enemies, dodging, blocking, and occasionally using a special ability. You also switch between multiple characters during combat which gives you a temporary moment to let your other characters heal a bit. Enemies are often bullet sponges. Boss battles look cool, but overall have easy to exploit mechanisms that make the battle itself a bore. But back to the combat. I got close to the end, and I'm in the Underworld/Hell area. My battle here has me surrounded by melee enemies, and it's about as enjoyable as tossing bags of dog poo back and forth as if I'm juggling. The bullet sponges come at me relentlessly, I dodge, I teleport to the high ground which is worthless due to the range of the melee enemies.. I switch characters, weapons, try multiple bits of variety, and die. I repeat, try things a bit differently, die again. This process goes on for awhile, maybe 10-15 minutes of this until I finally defeat this moment of mundane enemy slaughter. This moment robbed me of any further desire to continue. There have been multiple moments of the game where I simply have not enjoyed the combat due to its frustrating limitations, and the thought of experiencing more has torn any further desire to travel with the Detective and her pals. In the end you've got a game with a great artistic vision, a superb soundtrack that fits each environment quite well, and some of the most frustrating 2D combat I've ever experienced.

[h1]RE.SURS[/h1] [i]Тримовний огляд. A tri-lingual review. Eine dreisprachige Rezension.[/i] [table] [tr] [th] 🇺🇦 [i]Перекладено українською за допомогою google translate.[/i] [/th] [th] 🇬🇧 [/th] [th] 🇩🇪 [/th] [/tr] [tr] [td] [b]Історія[/b] [/td] [td] [b]Story [/b][/td] [td] [b]Geschichte[/b][/td] [/tr] [tr] [td] Джессі Салліван — паранормальний детектив. Її звільнили з державної посади, але потім її втягують у таємничі події, пов’язані з демонами, темною енергією та таємничим поганим хлопцем. Розповідь добре написана. Це розповідається у формі діалогів у грі між Джессі, її колишнім босом та різними жителями дивного темного світу Re.Surs. Я б назвав це Sci-Fi-Noir-Detective-Story. [/td] [td] Jessie Sullivan is a paranormal detective. She’s been fired from her government-job but then she’s dragged into mysterious events involving demons, dark energy, and a mysterious bad guy. The story is well written. It’s told in form of in-game-dialogues between Jessie, her former boss and the various inhabitants of the strange dark world of Re.Surs. I’d call it a Sci-Fi-Noir-Detective-Story. [/td] [td] Jessie Sullivan ist eine paranormale Detektivin. Sie wurde von ihrem Regierungsjob gefeuert, aber dann wird sie in mysteriöse Ereignisse hineingezogen, an denen Dämonen, dunkle Energie und ein mysteriöser Bösewicht beteiligt sind. Die Geschichte ist gut geschrieben. Sie wird in Form von In-Game-Dialogen zwischen Jessie, ihrem ehemaligen Chef und den verschiedenen Bewohnern der seltsamen dunklen Welt von Re.Surs erzählt. Ich würde es eine Sci-Fi-Noir-Detektivgeschichte nennen. [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td] [b]Ігровий процес[/b][/td] [td] [b]Gameplay[/b][/td] [td] [b]Gameplay[/b][/td] [/tr] [tr] [td] Re.Surs — це 2D-шутер з боковою прокруткою. Більшу частину часу ти бігаєш і стріляєш. Потім ви стрибаєте і використовуєте спеціальні здібності, щоб долати перешкоди. Ви зустрічаєте товаришів з різними здібностями, які допоможуть вам пройти через красиві темні та страшні рівні. На рівнях ви зустрічаєте багато різних ворогів. Деякі нагадували мені старого шкільного шутера Doom. Вороги мають унікальні атаки, і вам знадобляться всі ваші навички, щоб зіткнутися з ними. [/td] [td] Re.Surs is a 2D side-scrolling shooter. Most of the time you run and shoot. Then you jump and use special abilities to climb obstacles. You meet companions with different abilities who help you making your way through the beautiful dark and scary levels. Within the levels you meet a lot of different enemies. Some reminded me of the old school shooter Doom. The enemies have unique attacks, and you need all your skills to encounter them. [/td] [td] Re.Surs ist ein 2D-Side-Scrolling-Shooter. Die meiste Zeit rennt und schießt man. Ab und zu gilt es, Hindernisse mit speziellen Fähigkeiten zu überwinden. Du triffst Gefährten mit unterschiedlichen Fähigkeiten, die dir helfen, deinen Weg durch die schönen dunklen und gruseligen Level zu finden. Innerhalb der Level triffst du auf viele verschiedene Feinde. Einige erinnerten mich an den Old-School-Shooter Doom. Die Feinde haben einzigartige Angriffe und man braucht all die verschiedenen Fähigkeiten, um weiterzukommen. [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td] [b]Технологія[/b][/td] [td] [b]Technology[/b][/td] [td] [b]Technik[/b][/td] [/tr] [tr] [td] Гра йде гладко. Ви можете грати за допомогою клавіатури або контролера. Бойова механіка дуже хороша. [/td] [td] The game runs smooth. You can play with Keyboard or Controller. The fighting mechanics are very good. [/td] [td] Das Spiel läuft flüssig. Es lässt sich mit Tastatur oder Controller spielen. Die Kampfmechanik ist sehr gut. [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td] [b]Різне[/b][/td] [td] [b]Miscellaneous[/b][/td] [td] [b]Sonstiges[/b][/td] [/tr] [tr] [td] Забудовник з Маріуполя, Україна. Після російського вторгнення в Україну 2022 року йому вдалося евакуюватися з міста. Йому вдалося врятувати свій ноутбук. Він написав, що його кар’єра сольного інді-розробника, швидше за все, закінчиться. Але потім він навіть випустив два оновлення гри, незважаючи на те, що був евакуйованим. Подумайте про це. Працювати над своєю грою навіть без власної квартири чи фінансового забезпечення. Цей хлопець заслуговує на всю повагу та підтримку, яку він може отримати. [/td] [td] The developer is from Mariupol, Ukraine. After the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine, he managed to get evacuated from the city. He was able to save his laptop. He wrote that his career as a solo indie developer is very likely to be over. But then he even released two game-updates despite being an evacuee. Think of that. Working on your game even without having an own flat now or financial security. This guy deserves all the respect and support he can get. [/td] [td] Der Entwickler stammt aus Mariupol, Ukraine. Nach der russischen Invasion in der Ukraine im Jahr 2022 gelang es ihm, aus der Stadt evakuiert zu werden. Er konnte seinen Laptop retten. Er schrieb, dass seine Karriere als Solo-Indie-Entwickler sehr wahrscheinlich vorbei sei. Aber dann veröffentlichte er sogar zwei Spiel-Updates, obwohl er ein Evakuierter war. Das muss man sich mal vorstellen. An deinem Spiel arbeiten, ohne eine eigene Wohnung oder finanzielle Sicherheit zu haben. Dieser Mensch verdient all den Respekt und die Unterstützung, die er bekommen kann. 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As much as I want to defend little indie developers, I can't decently recomend this, even though a lot of work went into this game and it's a work of love. I was initially intrigued by the demo, but as you continue with the full game it becomes less and less fun and polished. There is an attempt at narrative but it becomes obvious that the dev is just making up the story on the go. Well in any case it's not very interesting. The gameplay can only be described as "spammy". You alternate between exploration sequences where there's no combat but only dialogs and pointless hacking minigames, and series of encounters where enemies start attaking you and you're allowed to fire and use abilities. The enemies just gang up on you like it was vampire survivor and stick so close to you that they get behind your projectiles spawing point so you have to either dash or repel them, and repeat the firing ad nauseam, there's no subtlety or gameplay sophistication, you just spam your abilities as they reload and as the game advances the enemies absorb more and more damage till you reach the point when you don't find this fun anymore. [h1](follow my curator page [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33882793/]GenXPlayers[/url] for more retro and indie reviews)[/h1]

Not to completely knock this game off the park, but to start off with the positive, everything down to the sprite art, the environment design, texture, the characters, and lighting all of that look amazing adding a layer of complexity to this futuristic cyber world. This developer is definitely a skills artist, I wouldn't mind seeing these assets in other games like a point and click games, just the care and detail that went into the game it's quite addicting just staring at them. I was optimistic after finishing the first level of the ability, the combat and the enemies were quite fun and I have some high hope for the story, but after a couple of levels, the gameplay started to get repetitive, due to a swarm of sponging enemies. Becoming too brawling to my liking that I feel like none of the weapons has any weight or impact, just subtle damage numbers hurting the combat, there was a time in the hell level towards the end of the game when it was so difficult to kill because they just absorb so much damage that I have to deal with getting killed multiple times by being pushed into the lava so often. Even introducing new characters with their own set of their abilities doesn't help make the combat more interesting as I feel some of them could be better tune to fit in this fast pace shooter game as abilities like Basil. B teleporting ones feel clanky as there is some delay to teleport where you want to be. Also, in this where a lot happens on the screen so it's hard to focus on where your character is, plus it is generally hard to defeat enemies with a high HP, it just feels a bit unfair. This is probably just me, but I can’t depict what the story is about, don't get me wrong I got the general picture of what the plot is about in this game, but things like what is Re. Sure does in the first ace all made this game confusing for me to understand what was happening half the time I lost interest to follow the story. Maybe, because this game seems to be inspired by the Half-Life series and expects you to play it before, but it doesn't do a good job explaining the story to those who haven't played it before like me. This is why I feel like I'm in a minority here when it comes to enjoying this game, I wish I could look at the superb art direction without any of these issues, but sadly this isn't the case due to the combat and story.

Usually when reviewing a game you want to set the scene and draw in people by establishing the narrative that will hopefully engage them alongside the game-play. Unfortunately in the case of 'Re.Surs' it's a somewhat mediocre mix of 'Half-life' and 'DOOM' where a new source of energy called Re.surs has been found, but oopsies! It's from a hell dimension and the entities from that realm are none too chuffed at it being taken. It's an unstable element and can lead to outbreaks of "dark energy" that transforms people into mutants, and also, uh, somehow gets them addicted to an evil VR game...? You play as a Detective who is part of a taskforce that handles these outbreaks and must uncover the "incredible" secrets behind Re.Surs (those who discovered it didn't tell anyone where it actually comes from, for obvious reasons) before the world is destroyed. The narrative goes all over the place with its influences and is hamstrung by a level of ambition that sadly isn't quite matched by the writing talent to do it justice. There's the bare-bones of something relatively worthwhile here as it ticks off the expected dramatic points and goes from A to B, and B to C etc and I can understand the beats they were trying to hit. Yet its execution is passable at best, a bit clumsy in general, and cringe-worthy at it's worst. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2954194817 So what's the game-play like? Uh, well, it's passable at best, a bit clumsy in general, and a wee bit glitchy at its worst. It's a run and gun shooter with responsive controls, punchy feeling weapons, some good ideas and a modicum of fun to be had from it, but again: doesn't quite have the talent behind it to make it great. Some of the games later bosses are fairly impressive, some are not. Some of its set-pieces are good, some are not. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2955167339 It introduces three playable characters over time, and whilst they share a few abilities between them (a dodge move, albeit slightly different in effect for each one, and a shield) they do have some unique individual skills. They also act as "lives" by switching from one to another during battles, as each has their own health bar. Some of the harder fights benefit from this "tag-teaming" aspect, and there are traversal sequences that utilise their skills for platforming, or some puzzle elements make use of them. It does aspire to being more than a simplistic shooter, though it does so by using familiar things from other games that did it better. Overall: it's alright to play through, yet it wouldn't really cut the mustard if it cost more or was being compared to other titles of a similar nature. Because, for sure, there are more exciting ones out there. There's worse ones too, but that doesn't really earn you brownie points. Beyond that it has a couple of bugs that, whilst not game-breaking, can be a bit annoying, and occasional spikes in difficulty that result from slightly wonky mechanics rather than a finely honed challenge. Enemies can be bullet-sponges and frustrating to kill or avoid taking damage from them, despite the game giving you the means to negate this, and the game can be quite stingy with handing out health replenishment items. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2954196488 It's never that hard as to be flinging your controller about in rage, but nonetheless it can't nail a certain smoothness or joy from the action either. There's always something a little bit wrong about it. Never awful, though on the other hand it isn't super-duper amaze-balls. Between the story and the game-play it has things that drag it down. Graphically it's alright, with mostly stylish design and modest technical chops setting the scene, albeit not as good-looking as it could be. The music can be pretty decent and the sound-effects are nicely done. I'd say it's most dubious aspect is the story-telling, followed by mild deficiencies in the game-play, but it isn't expensive and if you are somewhat forgiving I still think it just about earns a recommended.

Cool game kind. pros: - great visual style. Very atmospheric and stylish levels. - action battles as you need to use hero abilities in time. - different weapons with which you can kill demons. - different bosses, not very difficult though, it's okay. - intricate strange plot. - good jokes) - good price. - I liked the crazy dancing letters))) cons: - some bosses and fights pissed me off. - some basics 2d scroller shooterics are not presented, but mechan yeah it's experimental.

Cool 2D side-view shooter, gorgeous atmosphere and level design, interesting dialogues, I really liked the game, the only skirmishes are mediocre, but walking and diving into this world was very interesting for me.

Great game! Pleasing visuals, addictive gameplay, and very cool soundtrack!!! Man, I feel like I'm kicking demons asses in the hell or Mars again!!!