I will admit though, the AI is pretty stupid, I hope they get tougher in the later levels.
terrible excuse.
If you are going to implant a feature its best for the devs. to make it work its best.
I know its not a shooter but if you are going to allow guns and such then at least make those parts fun.
I think the shooting aspect needs to be redesigned completely, otherwise the other mechanics seem to work seamlessly.
My biggest gripe is that the combat isnt fluid at all.
It feels so awkward and jumpy compared to the flow of the running, it really kills the pace. Same with the shooting mechanics, and the way it has been done.
There (indeed) needs to be more motion during combat, and much better use of the first person POV.
For instance when Faith is holding a pistol her arm should be out towards the center of the screen, and move correctly while in motion - having it almost static in the corner looks way too odd.
Combat needs to be more fluid than stopping and waiting for a guy to swing at your to disarm - or waiting to time a kick. There should be more focus on movement in combat, and disarming on the fly - running from your enemies, and using weapons to fire back rather than aggressively attack or fire fowards.
Kind of like in John Woo movies - lets say hard boiled - how the characters always move during combat, leaping over things ect. However when they move with weapons they always fire them defensiveley blind firing as they move, roll, jump ect.
Im not sure how you could do this game design wise, but it would suit ME well.
Having some sort of ability for the character to perceive where she is being fired at from, and blind fire with the push of a button / trigger (causing the a.i. to slow down the chase, and possibly be forced to cover), while the player figures out an escape route.
If you have combat it needs to be much more mobile and fluid like the rest of the game - however it needs more of an element of risk (attacking with weapons, firing back ect.) than scaling / leaping across the environment.
Think it was the darkness, but in it you could use how it did handing dual weapons as an example. Both hands moved almost independently, and they did seem to have plenty of auto aim, however they were inaccurate it was a tradeoff for the amount of firepower too pistols could dish out, and encouraged the player to move with them, and play aggressively because of the 'special kills' you could do when you were in a close proximity of a baddie (e.g. stick a pistol in a dudes mouth).
What I am trying to say is Faiths arms need to more far more independently during combat than they do. A traditional shooter st-yled crosshair in the center (resulting in firing fowards and agressive gunplay) does not cut it, as it does not fit the flow and sty-le of the game at all tbh.
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