Out of bodies experience!
This game is quite old, as you would know with my recent incident, Im running out of the good game that I really wanted to play. Thus I was searching my game list and found this game. I used to pirate this in the past, but I didnt finish it. Thus I complete it now.
The swapper have very simple mechanic. Ability to swap body with one of the clone. You also have ability to create 4 clones at the time. The goal is basically you need to solved a specific amount of puzzle room, in order to unlock to next major area. The game is kinda designed like metroidvania where you have a gate that you need to come at later time once you unlock your progression. The game did introduce several extra mechanic in the level itself like a barrier that block you from spawning clone or swapping body, a box that you have to push around, even it introduced mindbending reverse gravity!
The story is simple & barebones. You are tasked to go into a spaceship which now defunct & there is no one here except for 1 person. You job is to restore the power & hopefully unravel the mystery behind the incident. Level design wise is pretty basic, but it is designed to look like a proper spaceship that you have to navigate around while solving the puzzle. Atmosphere is pretty dreadful, it almost remind me of any horror game. Thankfully, there is no jump scare here, although story is kinda shallow unless you read all notes existed in the game (which im obviously skipped)
Obviously I recommend you to try this, especially with that price. Just
dont expect something grand with deep lore or world building. Despite it simple design,
some of the puzzle is quite tricky.
Alternative :
Soma - This is the first title that remind me off especially with light puzzle & dread atmospheric setting.
Stealth Inc - Tough as nail puzzle platformer, although the game is kinda too long for me.
Portal - Please tell me that you have at least have played this game
Talos Principle - Another great 3D puzzle game, similar though provoking stuff
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Anime + The Matrix = THIS!
I will be honest that main reason why I played this game is to get inspired. I kept thinking about creating a fun bullet hell game in 3D with anime girl for years now. When I saw this game several weeks ago, I was kinda want to give it a try. Only when Im running out of game to play then finally I downloaded it.
The game is simple 3D 3rd person shooter. You have several ability with cooldown like dash, time stop bubble, time reverse & your ultimate. Weapon came with simple 2 concept where you can use shotgun when on hip (not aiming) or sniper rifle while aiming. Gameplay is consist of moving from one arena to another arena, with more combat intense as game goes on. There several enemy type, albeit introduced too quickly. While the game is not really hard, but it is kinda fun to move around & spamming your powerful ability.
The turning point for this to me is probably the awesome boss fight. Although I admit the boss is kinda cheating (instant-kill ability near the end), there are just enough moveset for you to learn and try to beat it in one go. The arena fights though get repetitive as you are only have maybe about 4 differents enemy that came in almost hundreds at the end of the games. There is some comic strip / story about the game, but i pretty much ignore.
Should you try it? Yes, it is
pretty neat short demo for awesome games (score here just reflected it ultra budget games) that
have potential to be great if it expanded upon.
Alternative :
Vanquish : Definitely a more polished AAA title, pretty cheap if you ask me.
Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae : Another anime budget games (DMC clone) that pretty cheap
Binary Domain : Another 3rd person squad based shooter with pretty interesting story.
