1/23/2024 0 Comments Guts and glory gameDeath comes quickly and quite often, with racers being dismembered, blown up, impaled, run over, and pretty much any other **** means to an end you can think up. Each level will get more and more challenging as you progress, with many culminating in the racer or random spectators being chopped to bits or exploding in a vicious explosion of gore and viscera. The game starts off small, requiring you to make it through a series of checkpoints, evading traps and hazards in the game world. This is a physics based racing game, but most of the joy that it evokes comes from the death and destruction that you will cause with your racer of choice, not actually completing the game's challenges. The best thing about this game is that it will likely having you and your friends laughing to the point of pissing yourselves. Sure, some games strive to be the prettiest, or have the biggest and best mechanics in order to drive players in droves to their local GameStop, but not this title Guts and Glory aims much higher. We like to play games for fun, but Guts and Glory leaves little more than a bad taste in our mouths and a trophy list ghost we’re never likely to revisit.I'm going to start this review off being completely honest - from a technical standpoint, Guts and Glory is by far one of the worst games I have ever played. It’s probably hilarious if you’re fourteen, just not forty four. It’s entirely possible this game has sailed wide of the mark for us, as we’re not millennial Twitch streamers with subscribers and viewers to appease. In evoking nostalgia for those days, it’s probably not achieving what it set out to do. The music is plinky MIDI styled stuff, very much a throwback to days of yore when we played our games on a EGA display on a 286 with a Gravis joystick (look it up, kids). As a reviewer this doesn’t sit well with us, but there’s no fun to be had here. There are eight groups of levels to play through, but by the time we explored the extra levels we didn’t want to play more. ![]() Yet more deaths ensued and we sacked off another level to try another. But for us at least, they really didn’t lend themselves to precisely maneuvering through various deathtraps. Maybe they work better with a mouse and keyboard. The imprecise controls make themselves known at this point. Another level introduces spinning blades that also prove immediately fatal upon contact with them. ![]() It was at this point that we unlocked our first and only trophy, a shiny turd as it happened.īut still we persevered despite all this. You feel compelled to retry over and over again. You can’t tell you’ve been targeted by a cannon until it’s too late and your character model has been turned into so much chum. These in conjunction with unerringly accurate dodgeball cannons that prove immediately fatal make for an incredibly frustrating section. One early level features an innocuous enough suburban road. When obstacles designed to maim and injure you come into the equation that it all starts to unravel. If it were just a point to point racer, we could get past that. It even had a glitchy trophy that didn’t unlock when we fulfilled the criteria of finishing a course using it. You have to make your way, via a series of checkpoints, to a goal on a rickety physics-modelled vehicle, be it a bicycle or a family car. It generally follows the same template each time. This gives the game a rather plain look but that’s not the main problem. The placeholder models from the Kickstarter gifs have made their way into this, the full release game. Our man HakJak has used Unity in conjunction with a host of generic and community sourced 3D model assets. No doubt this game makes for great commentary as you play, but sadly there’s not much in the way of game otherwise. The second isn’t the problem, it’s the former. That in itself usually wouldn’t present a problem, but it is evident this is a game in thrall to the likes of Twitch and YouTube streamers and a host of Kickstarter backers from r/gaming. On the face of it Guts and Glory is an indie game by a first time dev. But within ten minutes of starting to play, it was clear we’d made a terrible terrible mistake. The image of a man riding a bike giving someone a backie was enough to pique our interest. We’re sad to report that Guts and Glory falls into the latter category. Sometimes it pays off as it did with the superb Death Road To Canada, other times you end up with a game that you regret ever having started. On the strength of the few images, we’ll sometimes take a punt on an outlier like Guts and Glory. In the case of games like Guts and Glory this particular reviewer does a quick web search. ![]() Jin PS4 / Reviews tagged physics / unity by IanĮvery so often, we get sent a game that we’ve never heard of.
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