| #49 | Deathloop |
|---|---|
| guessed by | no one |
| platform | Xbox Series |
| release year | 2021 |
| developer/publisher | Arkane/Bethesda |
| genre | shooter, action-adventure |
| links | Wikipedia |
To my surprise no one guessed this one. Yeah, I played a bit of Deathloop via Gamepass and it is quite a convincing shooter. I am not too much into fast-paced action, but Deathloop actually offers a lot of different ways to be played: stealthy or guns blazing, climbing over roofs or tunnels below. My favorite play is to hack a turret, take it and throw it behind a corner in view of enemies. The game offers only a few levels, but they are intricately made and offer a lot of ways to access and progress. Also they slightly change over the "first day" are populated with different enemies or stuff changes.
The game has an interesting take on collecting weapons and items, as they all reset when the day is over, except you pay for them with residuum. Kinda cool to limit your arsenal that way while also give incentive to collect all that weird glitchy stuff.
It is also kinda trippy to see messages from your former selfs written into the level, even meeting yourself. Or see a bunch of Wenjies bickering with each other. This game is clearly designed to be fun, not only in gameplay but with not too serious setting with characters that are.. well colorful and a world that is taking itself not too seriously. For instance that closed snack thing, that said their food was so well loved, they run out before the loop started. Which is too stupid, because inside the loop they would never run out.
This game also has some light elements of detective work, although things get noted down as lead if they just come into my vision, even if I myself as player didn't notice them. I would wish that I was a bit more involved in that and play a more active part in noting down the leads. But checking your notes to plan your next target is also cool.
This game makes me more interested seeing some of Arkanes older work, especially Arx Fatalis and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. We'll see when I find time to play them. And if I can find them. Didn't look yet how difficult that is. Well, have a fun first day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGTg-AmV9x4&ab_channel=BethesdaSoftworks
