What is your Favorite underrated game =o

[Bitmap Frogs]

dougsdad0629 said:

Bitmap Frogs said:
This gen? Red Steel, definitely. An unknown gem that got lambasted because reviewers couldn't be bothered to access the options and tweak the control so it made sense.

 

 That's very interesting.  I had pretty much ruled this game out despite its current cheap price because of the reviewers' control complaints.  Could you please elaborate as to what you "tweaked" to improve the game beyond what was talked about in the reviews?

 

Ok, here it goes.

First, set the swordfighting gestures to small - the default setting requires you to do huge exagerated gestures or it won't recognize most of the movements. By changing this you can use smaller, preciser movements which makes using advanced moves easier.

Second, you do this: you set the cursor speed as fast as possible, then toggle-off auto aim. Let me explain: as it is, the game has a huge bounding box that triggers camera rotation so you can only use a tiny bit of the screen as the aiming area. If you keep pressed the A button the game turns into shooting mode: the bounding box is way smaller so you can use most of the screen for aiming and the cursor movement is slowed down to make precise aiming easier. On its default settings, the cursor is slow and autoaim is on: which means with A button activated you can't aim as fast as you need and on top of that the game autocenters your view on randomly chosen enemies, sometimes it even locks on enemies that you still haven't seen.

By setting the cursor to fastest and disabling the autoaim, you can pretty effectively play red steel in a modal way: whenever you need to aim and kill, keep pressed A - still fast but precise aiming, lotsa area for aiming, small bounding box. For maneuvering unpress A - uber quick cursors speed and big bounding box means you can maneuver pretty quickly. It still will kind of require that you sometimes use the old trick of aiming with movement (that is, keep the aim somewhere in the center of the screen and move sideways instead of modyfing your aim) but as a whole the game will be playable. The only thing still sucking will be the zooming gesture, there's no way to fix that - I didn't care because I like to play FPS face-to-face with short range weaponry and grenades but if you enjoy long ranged combat it'll be a pain.