12 Nov Kiss review “Awesome, long cool title”

After 1998 and Half-Life, the world of first-person shooters changed forever (In 1994, System Shock was released, a good game, but fell into the shadow of DOOM. System Shock did not realize its full potential and did not have a noticeable impact on the gaming industry at the time). Suddenly, it turned out that they could have an interesting plot, which is really important and makes itself felt throughout the entire playthrough, and you don’t have to kill everyone. After 1998, the expressions “meat shooters” and “old school” appeared. Old school is Serious Sam, Painkiller and Bulletstorm coming out in February. The old school is when you are a hero, from the action films of the 80s with Schwarzenegger and Stallone, one against everyone, the only one who is for you is your weapon in your hands. And the enemies keep coming at you. Pure gameplay without impurities. Role-playing component? Excuse me. Plot? For what? Only you, weapons and hordes of enemies are against you, and your task is to get from point A to point B.

The map and quests will only https://playwin-casino.co.uk/ distract from the bloody bacchanalia. Games like this are rare these days. Such games can be listed on the fingers of one hand. And it’s surprising to me that we missed, forgot about one such. We remember Serious Sam, but for some reason we don’t remember KISS: Psycho Circus – The Nightmare Child, which is a year younger, but rightfully belongs to the old school.
This game’s comic-book opening title roars like a Jim Hendrix guitar solo that it’s awesome. And not from the splash screen itself, but even from the signature under the game shortcut on the desktop “KISS Infernal Circus”. And the very first thoughts and feelings about her – “God, how cool she is”. Screensavers, main menu designs, plot and first enemies.
The enemies are just crazy. It feels like the screenwriter was locked in a room with a typewriter for a week, and the only food he had was pizza with 200 liters of coffee mixed with energy drinks. If there was an award for the most original enemies, the game would deservedly receive it. The local bestiary is something. Remember the endless respawning of enemies that annoys you in other games?? Rejoice, it can be destroyed here. Not only is it possible, but it is also necessary. Little dinosaurs jump out of it, shooting fireballs and mutated muzzle-jumpers standing on their hind legs, and this is so, a warm-up for the screenwriter’s imagination. A giant wearing only a leopard print loincloth, with dumbbells that are a natural extension of his arms. Already better. A hyena, whose legs turn into a wheel, rides, laughs and throws fire at us. Almost perfect. But the most cruel thing, beyond the boundaries of good and evil, is the fat woman. A fat woman with pigtails, dressed in a tank top and a tutu, throwing her own fat at you, which she pulls out of her body. Fat. Throws. Fat. Moreover, homing. He jumps on you. Live fat. First thoughts – “What is this, censorship?”?». I’m a veteran of many shooter wars, but I’ve never had to fight off the fat. This is why you can play this game. To fight off fat. It is unlikely that you will ever have this opportunity.

But how do we get rid of fat?? There are no fifty types of weapons and upgrades for them. Everything is simple and standard – a machine gun, a shotgun, a grenade launcher, melee weapons and an unknown uber crap that cuts everyone out with one shot and is available at the end of the company. Standard is standard, but models are non-standard. The role of grenades is played by a clown in a box with a devilish grin. The machine gun looks like a machine gun, the shotgun is no longer there. This is something prickly, evoking associations with a sea urchin, hissing and when fired, black gunpowder smoke comes out of it. A grenade launcher, or rather a rocket launcher, fits on your hand, looks futuristic and shoots a pink light that makes everyone in a small radius ouch. I advise you to turn off “automatic weapon switching” in the options. The shotgun is located next to the rocket launcher and when the shotgun runs out of cartridges (the most efficient way to shoot here is by holding down the left mouse button), it automatically switches to the rocket launcher. If the enemy is near you, then you go to heaven with him. Melee weapons – sword, claws, electric gloves are not useless. In general, there is nothing useless in this game. Whatever you pick will benefit you. The whip (and there is this weapon – feel like Indiana Jones) allows you to climb into inaccessible places. But most clearly the usefulness of things in collecting armor is manifested.
Collecting a complete set of armor is the main task of the company. There are four companies in total, according to the number of elements – fire, water, air, earth. We collect armor in order to become avatars and defeat Evil. The fortune teller explains this to us in the videos. Here’s what we can say about the plot. Let’s forget about him.
Collecting armor is vital. We start as an ordinary person with 20 percent health maximum. By collecting armor, we increase our health by up to 200 percent. Having found the boots, we get the opportunity to jump higher than before. An old-school shooter, so it’s corridor-like and it’s impossible to pass by the required piece of armor. You just wander around the neighborhood, destroying evil spirits and come across armor and the necessary doors.

The surrounding area is gorgeous. There is a level in the library, when you enter the door, you find yourself on a bookshelf filled with books. The circus, the Cathedral, the city and other locations are made carefully and very thought out. It looks great when in a water company you clear the premises from enemies and the water rises after you. The game tries really hard to make it look cool. The menu design is also top notch. But one thing ruins everything.
Her Majesty glitches. Against you are cracks in the rock, door thresholds and ledges. You’re stuck in them forever. Only loading a save helps. Autosave doesn’t work either. I was convinced after I went through the company. After loading the last save, I found myself in an incomprehensible, amazing world, where half the textures were missing, and you could easily fall through the floor. Find a patch on the Internet and play only with it.
What? Gameplay? You don’t know about old school gameplay? This is a simulator of a rural disco, when a crowd of 50 people comes at you in a crowd of 50 people, and half of them came out of the forest.
Play for all fans of Serious Sam and Painkillera, Doom and Blood. An undeservedly forgotten masterpiece. I recommend.