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I recently finished Slayers X, and if this FPS was any more "high school in the late 90's / early 2000's" Xena Warrior Princess would ride past Daria Morgendorfer giving a monologue on how video game violence is probably less harmful than the advertising targeting teenagers on magazine covers and television. Then Duke Nukem would kick a field goal with an alien eyeball while saying something about "balls of steel" or whatever.

The whole vibe harkens back to this angsty teen boy phase on a power fantasy with purposely bad spelling, lots and lots of poop humor, and cut scenes that looks like a Green Jelly music video (sounds like it, too).

It's a shorter experience than I expected - about 4-5 hours - but it doesn't overstay its welcome. All the weapons are useful, even if ammo is sometimes scarce for some of them. I usually judge an fps by how easily I get lost, and one of the levels literally tells you "go here, stupid". I appreciated that kind of condescension. Thank you. I think I only seriously got stuck key hunting twice.

Slayers X might have been easy to miss, having released around the same time as W40k Boltgun, but it's worth checking out.

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[–] FartSmarter 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did you play Hypnospace Outlaw? Its a completely different genre but it’s set in the same universe of Slayers X (one of the characters in Outlaw is who “created” Slayers X)

[–] TwistedPear 1 points 2 years ago

I have not, but yeah it looks like it has that similar late 90s weirdness. Half expect to see a reference to the flying toaster screensaver or something.