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Some of the most remarkable trends that arose many years ago sometimes turn into some terrifying, cruel parodies of themselves. Demo version from the sample of the first pairs of levels\/hours of the game was the opportunity to look for bugs in games for your own money without guarantee that the game will reach the release. The exit of the sequels from something expected became something sad, because they come out too often, up to the appearance of the \u201cconveyor\u201d label on the series even before someone says \u201ctired\u201d. Sinematographic shooters became a cinema for Pivas with squid. Restarts from the opportunity to breathe life into something flashed became a restart Devil May Cry<\/b>. Finally, \u201cwe will do as before\u201d, which has become so popular at dawn Kickstarter<\/i>\u2019A, instead of a reason, it became an occasion to doubt: and if suddenly it comes out Pillars of Eternity<\/b>, A Torment: Tides of Nu<\/b>? <\/p>\n
I, as a permanent player in shooters, have recently been clinging to the moment with \u201cas before\u201d: people suggested starting to the development of games that capture the spirit of the old school shooters: you are high -speed dynamics Doom<\/b>, And wonderful, cheerful meat Wolfenstein3d<\/b>, And even a brilliant plot Blood<\/b> With ideological Shadow Warrior<\/b> – Just throwing it! Only a few can capture the spirit of these games (and even more so to transmit it in their projects), because all this simply was not in those games. There were no completely crazy and meaningless labyrinths who climbed into (I liked) Project Warlock<\/b>, There was no gutrifting ten minutes aka Strife<\/b>, And the habits to make frankly weak, boring and unprofitable shooters of the level Apocryph<\/b> There was no either. <\/p>\n
This is all little connected with DUSK<\/b>, After all, this is really on-97-percent-positive-reviews-in-Steam<\/i>-The expected good game with places of unexpected implementation of the very spirit \u201clike in the nineties\u201d. This is a suitable game, play it. <\/p>\nOld and kind<\/h1>\n
At all, DUSK<\/b> Initially, already from his page in a steam store, screaming about \u201cRetro, inspired by the shooting legends of the nineties\u201d. Dum-Cheritic-Blood and other games in the list of the same inspirers, crossbows and double-barreled men, Andrew Hullshult<\/i> (Andrew Hulshult) Music and simply brilliant in its impudence the first trailer for the game (Rampage<\/i> PAST THE Rednecs<\/i>! Be Branded a Heretic<\/i>! Quake<\/i> In Fear! Meet your Doom<\/i>! While the uniform is happening on the screen Blood<\/b>, But in 3D!) with the old count and from the producer of the remake, sorry G*Sport, Rise of the Triad – it was not necessary to go so. The first episode came out, and it was wonderful: the game is played, the players rejoice, the developers answer posts in discussions in the first five minutes – whether it could be better? Maybe: the news about the transfer of the second episode was accepted positively, because the players praised the left -handed so much that the studios New Blood Interactive<\/i> It came to mind the most important idea: to spend more time to make even more cool levels in the second and third episodes. Cool. <\/p>\n
The game holds the dynamics, holds the bar and holds the pop player firmly chained to the monitor. Very pleasant, juicy shooting, excellent sound accompaniment, both musical and in terms of sound effects, the cool levels of different sizes with entertaining hymims without useless running around and labyrinths for the sake of labyrinths – and a very well -aged style, which at the same time is inspired by a variety of sources, from S.T.A.L.K.E.R.<\/b>A before the situation in the rural areas of Pennsylvania, where I once lived David Shimanski<\/i> (David Szymanski), game developer. And even the old graphone does not bloom, although the graphics are much worse than in Crysis<\/b> (the minimum system requirements of which are noticeably lower than that DUSK<\/b>, O-la-la!), but the game does not sag, although it is made on the notorious Unity Engine<\/i>. The visual and technical part of the game is generally a very special marvelous. <\/p>\n
\u201cFor some reason I like to make shitty wallpapers for my games. Here are some of those that I did for DUSK." <\/p>\n
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The hardest thing was to force Unity to stop using the possibilities because of which the game looked better.<\/i>" <\/p>\n
The game looks old. Very old. She has a pair of modern buns, like soft light, but she still looks old. Low resolution of textures, very simple models and animations, angular environment – in a word, some surfaces in the game can cut paper, they are so unnecessary. The graphics are really outdated. <\/p>\n
But this, of course, was done intentionally: it looks as before, to do it cheaper, and all problems can be solved by style and design. The game, as mentioned above, is made on Unity, but it does not suffer from the problem of 95% of the games on this engine: it looks good, does not lose shifts, in large spaces with no less larger crowds of enemies and their shells will not be choked, and the number of possible visual settings can envy other high -budget ports with consoles. Soft light and Bloom? – Easy! Make a pixel picture? – Please! You can even configure the ratio of colors, saturation and brightness, and with proper perseverance and a feeling of beautiful, you can turn the game into some nuar action movie, narcotic trip or cover of the game Mafia<\/b>. There are even color options made by developers, from the standard for the game to a certain jensen (Deus Ex<\/b>!) or dusktrayer (which prevented me from joining about turning the game into Betrayer<\/b>, After all, this is literally the whole punchline). You can configure and more important things such as an area of \u200b\u200bvision up to 150 and weapons swinging already. In a word, in terms of technical, the game has everything very good. <\/p>\n
The most tsimes is visual. The picture with its poverty is very, very pleasant. The effects are bright and powerful, and a lot of judges in the shooting process bring a lot. Each shot is visible, and each blow or hit is allowed to let blood or low -polygonal scraps, and explosives gives a flash and such a simple, but such pleasant explosive wave. Well, there is still fire there, all the glow, tyry-flood, cool, in short. But this is a lyrics, because we have a bad graphon here, but how to make a bad graphon good? <\/p>\n
Design. The design can even save a pixel game from the stigma "worse than doom "<\/b>. For comparison: there is Celeste<\/b>, And there isTerraria<\/b>. They are pixel, but Terraria<\/b> It looks good. Design and makes budgets and technical limitation DUSK<\/b> not a disadvantage, but a feature. The creator managed to create a memorable appearance for the environment, and even on the most confusing locations it is difficult to get lost, because you easily remember them at the expense of the surroundings and all sorts of details like inscriptions on the walls. Classic landscapes of the American outback under the lighting of ala Call of Cthulhu<\/b>, rusty walls of factories from somewhere Silent Hill<\/b> Or the second chapter Painkiller<\/b>, Dark dungeons and sterile, but very gray laboratories, interspersed with very dirty, almost otherworldly locations-the game resembles some moments Event Horizon<\/b>: in the dark above the abyss. Some levels of the second half of the game generally consist of torn and mixed parts of past levels, and this adds a certain charm. <\/p>\n
The levels in the game are diverse, because there was a place for both very close corridors and really large rooms and even open -air levels, and the distance from you to the other end of the location is felt, as well as the height. Scale-s. The most important thing is the style. Everything described above sets its special tone and creates a special style, and in itself the graphonium becomes all the same, because the game looks so suitable and peculiar, although it positions itself as secondaryness from many other old games. <\/p>\n
This very peculiar secondaryness, oddly enough, gives developers freedom in searching for inspiration. Our Anglo -speaking brothers would designate the appearance as Heavily Inspired, literally \u201chardly inspired\u201d. This is evident in the locations that I noticed above, and this is also seen in the design of enemies. Cultists with chainsaws and bags on their heads clearly came from Resident Evil 4<\/b>, Cyborg-woman with a rocket launched from Quake 2<\/b>, And the arrows in gas masks with their colors resemble Hecu from Half-Life<\/b>. Enemies are generally well remembered: some – for the soreness of the battles with them, others – for the torment of escapes from them, others – for the appearance. And you also remember The dog is a don<\/i>: This is literally a dog without legs in a cube on wheels. She does not bite, she ram. Hurt. <\/p>\n
This is a Taran dog. CART DOG. HOUND OF TORMENT. She can play in a multiplayer. <\/p>\n
If the word was given to my comrade alone, he would call the artistic style of the game functional: it is simple, but it works, and simplicity gives more time, which can be devoted to other elements that are much more important for the game of this format, creating a certain quality bar to which you should strive for, but at which you can stop at which you can stop. If in the confrontation of technology and the impression of the picture you are more important for you, you will most likely like the game if you do not have a good game without good graphics, you think you can go by. I liked the local visual. This is not a bob Ross from the old shooters, of course, but it makes an impression, and sometimes the game gives a really shocked picture. <\/p>\n
Sound accompaniment also adheres to rather conservative views: it goes hard and a lot. Sounds are damn important for such a game. On the one hand, they improve the response: the louder, the juicier the sound of the weapon, the sound of the destruction of the environment and the adversaries, the more high from the direct extermination of everything that moves. On the other hand, NPC sounds not only make the same shooting cooler due to pain, but also deepen the sense of battle: each sound telegraphes the enemy\u2019s attack (any side). Finally, the sounds of everything – both NPC and the environment – work on the setting of moments, whether it is the first show of the strip enemy, the exit of the game for rare, short -lived, but very powerful horror rails or the player\u2019s dipping, lingering uterine sounds of giant vundervafli. Each time you are allowed into a closed narrow location, optionally without light, be prepared for the fact that the usual embosses of the game will become much more terrible, and the sounds of local vendigo will be heard even through the walls. A very good effect, it should be noted, because this is a dumb spinal shooter, and not some kind of horror, and it turns out to be scared more abruptly than the officially declared horror films. Deserves respect. <\/p>\n
Sometimes the game throws some pieces of the future. For example, the corpse of the enemy, which we will not see a few more levels (or even the episode!). <\/p>\n
And the main character makes the classic \u201cHyk\u201d when he jumps. <\/p>\n
But sounds sounds, and the true delight for the audio channel here is music. This is metal. A lot of metal. There is also a the aforementioned embosses, but it is not needed, because there is metal, and not only in the sense of \u201cheavy satanic music\u201d, but also in the sense of \u201csounds of the plant under distortion\u201d. The composer that worked on the local soundtrack is already mentioned above Andrew Hulshult, who recorded the IDKFA cover album for Brutal doom<\/b>, OST for recent Amid Evil<\/b>, Quake Champions<\/b> And very controversial Bombshell<\/b>, plus some more kosher things. What is characteristic, no matter how targeted projects, this guy always sounds wonderful and does not roll into monotony at the same time. His music does not emphasize the atmosphere or dynamics of the game, it makes them, and while the slower tracks are kept in tension, combat music makes the blood boil and puts the spinal cord on the wall. <\/p>\n
In short, he is cool, and he made music for DUSK<\/b>. For all three episodes. The compositions were composed in parallel with composing levels and chapters, which took quite a lot of time, but the bar did not fall during this time, and the final result is not only pleasant to listen to the game, but also not ashamed to throw it into a playlist. <\/p>\n
Even simple geometry can give a mental, pleasant picture. <\/p>\n
Three chapters that differ in visual style are very different in terms of music: the chapter about the shooting of Solyukov gives us a fairly slow industrial sound, diluted by a couple of pieces of trash-metal, the game is gaining momentum and the music becomes much faster and powerful, and the repertoire is replenished by an electronic, the third chapter goes to some very … interesting levels, the music in which the music is, the music in which the music is in which the music is. Leaves closer to the same industrial embosses. The Saudtrek is good: it sounds organic and hard, and very quickly eats into the brain. Sometimes, however, there is a feeling that there is little music: here and there there are some uncomfortable pauses that would be nice to fill with something, but this happens quite rarely, and in general every significant moment is well remembered not only for action, but also for music. The first chapter came to me much less than the other two, not least due to slower music, but after villages and corn fields, the game is filled with vertical and speed, and the music becomes only cooler. Together with the unique visual contents for all three chapters, the music creates a really powerful atmosphere and no less vivid impressions of any battles, whether it is shooting frail cultists or running away from some terrible white rubbish. I can only add that there is no problem with the restart of the track at each load and there is no absolute silence at the end of the track. I hate Quad Machine for this beautiful feature Quake 2<\/b>. <\/p>\nThe plot is against the style<\/h1>\n
-Soap. -Sorry? -I produce and sell soap. It is vanshit.<\/i><\/p>\n
Probably, before talking about how to shoot, you need to talk about why. What drives the main character? Why is he collecting shins? Why do they protect him? What the hell he generally climbed into everything that happens? And most importantly: why is it all the player? <\/p>\n
All doubts should be discarded immediately: this game, although it has some kind of rabbits of the plot, it dancing does not reveal it, which is not particularly necessary, because this is a noise as before. There is some tie, some kind of climax and something like a denouement, and all this is only reasons to throw poisoning with lead in their path. If we contact the classics about the plot in shooters, the plot specifically this game may well take a place on the same shelf with Doom<\/b>: The plot is implied, but it is not needed, just like in porn films. The only difference is that here we have a hard snuff with almost comic dogs. Almost. <\/p>\n
This is literally the beginning of the level. Promising. <\/p>\n
Speaking more specifically, the plot here is served by a few very simple, if not banal, ways. The whole game with us will communicate with a certain voice straight of the cheap horror, throwing up the humiliation and jokes about the \u201cunworthy of\u201d the main character and the meaninglessness of his struggle. Obviously, this is the main bastard that we will need to kill at the end (the move is much more elegant than the demonstration of the main villain at the beginning of the best role-playing game of 2011, haha). Another moment is the sequence of levels and the bacchanalia that is happening on it: the inscriptions on the walls, the slides of the corpses left by someone, the more strange opponents, more and more surreal landscapes give us some idea of \u200b\u200bwhat is happening in the playing world, and the lonely sign on the exit from rural motifs, as it were, hints to us: DUSK is a city, and the population is all over the population in it. descends for one reason or another. <\/p>\n
Graduation photo by David Oshri, founder of New Blood Interactive and, part -time, the leader of the cult. Behind the voice acting of Hullshult!. <\/p>\n
In essence, all events are building a conditional plot: here you have a local war with a blockade, and experiments, and breakthroughs into the abyss, and gaps in space, provoked by the main character, and even a huge death machine, the existence of which still hints to us where the population of the town (nobody except hostile cultists, mutants and demons, so that we have a mystery, so that we have a mystery. There will not be necessary to solve people about the loss of people for a long time). Finally, the levels of the world give us any kind of idea of \u200b\u200bthe world: Erebus Reactor makes it clear to us that the town is not so small, New Babel lets us far beyond the clouds, which indicates, if not the development of construction, then at least the help of otherworldly forces, and the presence of military bunkers and laboratories emphasizes: too much strange garbage to one city. We are told everything through the environment and some events, through hints and semi-people, and I am not me, if I do not say that these are his mother Dark Souls from the world of old-school shooters! <\/p>\n