Finding this game to be pretty good at first then uneven then frustrating. Lots of losing fights and trying again over and over. currently stuck on a platforming section. In easy mode, it sets the game speed to 80%. It is incredibly fun to instakill enemies with a shotgun dropkick to the head but those are so hard to pull off because everything is animation driven so it's very easy to whiff shots and blows. You also die incredibly fast when blades are involved. This game seems made for Mouse + Keyboard more than a controller, and swapping them made it much easier to play.
I like the character designs and some of the writing is pretty good, if bleak.
I would describe this as a game you'd find at the school book fair, but I mean that in the most sincere admiration. It kind of ignores a lot of action game conventions in pursuit of a very unique combat and encounter design, one that is much less AAA than you would expect, but provides an experience you won't get anywhere else.
It reminded me a lot of Quake in a way: abstract spaces that are built around specific gameplay. levels being a combination of spatial puzzles (In overgrowth's case: jumping) and combat. I'll probably try out the 3 other expansions (Just like Quake!)
also consider checking out the predecessor lugaru, which has more or less the same combat but charmingly early-00's graphics (think jedi knight but just a little cruder). if you don't wanna, overgrowth comes with a remake of lugaru's campaign. if you're anything like me (i shall not elaborate) you'd probably like the setting; also there's NPCs named after some characters from watership down. damn i still gotta read / watch that. damn
i don't really have much more to add than that right now. i followed some of this game's development; it was in dev for quite a long time. the flying kick of death was actually nerfed Very Significantly down to what you see in the final game. i haven't tried to play on gamepad and i don't want to, though it's pretty good on steam controller (lol, lmao). wolfire open-sourced it semi-recently which is neat
i only remember Lugaru from being in the original Humble Indie Bundle. man, i miss when the Humble Indie Bundle was cool and not all corporate and shit, the first checks wikipedia uhhhhh one (1) of them after which they got a VC round including fucking Sequoia??? damn, they were right that nothing would change after the IGN acquisition
