In order to do that, you’ll have to rediscover some of your own memories by beating bosses (duh). You soon find an AI companion and figure out that your objective is to escort it into enemy territory so that it can dismantle the terrorist’s network from within. Oh, and he conveniently suffers from amnesia, so he’s as lost as you are. Story & Narrativeįrom the start all the way to the very end, the story in Resolutiion is incredibly vague.Īll you know for sure is that you play as an old soldier, a veteran in some war perhaps, who has since been cybernetically augmented so much that he’s more machine than organic. So, is Resolutiion a glorified HLD skin or does it merely take inspiration from HLD while standing on its own two feet? Let’s find out. The hopeful, optimistic part of me though was definitely intrigued and wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt. Implementing elements of another game is entirely fine, but unapologetically recreating the same game only to slap a filter on it and calling it a new game is blatantly disrespectful, not to mention disgustingly lazy.Īs soon as I saw screenshots of Resolutiion on Steam, the cynical part of me wasted not a nanosecond before accusing it of being a straight ripoff of one of the coolest games in recent memory, Hyper Light Drifter. ![]() However, more often than not, good art also inspires a large number of carbon copies. Good art potentially inspires even better art. ![]() Hell, ever since a certain game came out in 2011, “it’s like Dark Souls” has been a mainstay phrase in reviews or discussions of pretty much any game that bears even the most remote resemblance to it.Īnd there’s nothing wrong with that. Similarly, Mortal Kombat, Tekken, and every other fighting game were built upon the extensive combos and gameplay mechanics that Street Fighter 2 established back in 1991. From Halo to Call of Duty, every modern FPS owes a lot to the original Wolf 3D for kickstarting the FPS genre. Whether it be a movie, a book, a piece of music, or a game, all creative works build on those that came before.
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