Strider (2014)

Getting ok reviews so far. Not great, but not bad. I'll still give it a try regardless. LovedStriderback in the day.

The trailers I've seen look pretty plain to me honestly. If there's a demo I'll give it a shot but otherwise will hold off. Just finished Valdis Story so my controller fingers need a break anyway :l

How do they fuck upStrider? Oh wait, it's the modern gaming industry. Rhetorical question.

The main gripe I've seen is the repetitive environments. No snow level(WTF) which was teased in early videos.

Makes me wonder if they held back a lot of stuff for DLC or something.

It's pretty fun so far. And Hard is Hard, at least at first. You can die super fucking easily until you get a couple health upgrades.

Intrinsic_sl said:

Any other impressions from anyone? Waiting to hear back from some Rerolled members before buying tonight.

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I'm about half way through and it's pretty fun, the boss battles so far are the best part.

Not on steam till tomorrow...damnit!

Some gameplay footage... there is something odd with the zooming, the size of the rooms and the art style: everything feels cramped.

My upload sucks, so the quality is ass, but I'm streaming it here:Twitch

Theres definitely a lot of times where the camera is really zoomed in when it shouldn't be.. which results in getting popped offscreen which is kind of annoying lol
Its alright so far, i keep dying like a casual on hard mode

Finally beat it, clear time of 8 hours, 28 minutes on Hard with 97.2% complete. Was going to search for all the collectibles, but said fuck it. Finding the all "Pow" ones that unlock bonus shit is gay as hell since there's no map icons for them. Did find all the upgrades, canisters, and costumes though.

Definitely worth the 15 bucks. Hard can be pretty hard, some boss fights are a total bitch, and the start of the game is brutal until you get some health upgrades. The only real complaint I have is that once you beat it it locks you out and you can't go back and finish collecting stuff. They should have let you do a New Game+ or restored you to right before the last area.

So far i've only found the very beginning to be hard like you mentioned.. the first two bosses or so before you get a health upgrade is substantially more difficult compared to the following few bosses.
It's okay... definitely not as good as shadow complex lol

Needless_sl said:

So far i've only found the very beginning to be hard like you mentioned.. the first two bosses or so before you get a health upgrade is substantially more difficult compared to the following few bosses.
It's okay... definitely not as good as shadow complex lol

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Yeah, there's some really uneven difficulty mid-game once you get a few upgrades. The last few bosses are pretty well tuned though. The gauntlet right before the last two bosses was a real bitch too.

I just finished up the platinum, and would definitely recommend the game.