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I took a quick look at The Citadel last night. Not my amazing puzzle game from 1991 which I& #39;m sure everybody remembers but a first-person shooter.
I was roadtesting the demo. It looked kind of promising with the visuals, initially and the handling is very DOOM-y.
This was the first warning sign... this "lamp" here is actually a button to open the door. There are plenty of lamps in the game. Not all of them are buttons...
This was a level hub; you could talk to some characters about the (thin) story about killing the sleeping god to liberate all the people you& #39;re about the shoot dead to reach the god (?).
The figure at the back here is a shop who can be found in a secret location on each level.
The figure at the back here is a shop who can be found in a secret location on each level.
You meet a lot of red monks at first, who throw projectiles at you. They are pretty easy to defeat. The turquoise aesthetic is interesting but the high-def enemy graphics jar with the surroundings.
What would a first-person shooter be without gibs?
Not sure I found every hidden place in the first level, but occasionally they were fun to find. The real issue with The Citadel was boredom.
Most of the enemies I encountered were pretty easy to defeat: the only dangerous one was the yellow astronaut armed with long-distance flamethrowers.
I don& #39;t have a picture of them because I was running backwards fast. :)
I don& #39;t have a picture of them because I was running backwards fast. :)
I got through two full levels and a secret level and it just wasn& #39;t challenging, no flair to the level design nor interesting to explore. No hook to keep me going. It felt padded, if anything.
It is supposed to have 30 levels, so I& #39;m sure it gets harder later but I just couldn& #39;t justify spending any more time on it.
If you& #39;re interested in checking it out, it& #39;s here on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1378290/The_Citadel/">https://store.steampowered.com/app/13782...
If you& #39;re interested in checking it out, it& #39;s here on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1378290/The_Citadel/">https://store.steampowered.com/app/13782...
