Loopmancer Review (Steam)
Our Loopmancer review has us playing this 3D platformer rogue-lite action game with realistic graphics that takes place in a cyberpunk universe. Players play as a detective who comes back to life after an unexpected death, and battle in this lifelike and futuristic city of the east.
Loopmancer Review Pros:
- Fantastic graphics.
- 12.24GB Download size.
- Steam achievements.
- Controller support.
- Graphics settings – window mode, resolution, v-sync, frame rate cap, graphics preset, visual effect, shadow, texture, motion blur, Ray tracing, Nvidia DLSS, Nvidia NIS, Nvidia FSR, and Nvidia Reflex low latency.
- Controller settings – 3 presets and custom.
- Four difficulties – Story, normal, hard, and challenge.
- Roguelike Metroidvania gameplay.
- 2D perspective.
- Logistics terminals – you can heal at these, the more you heal from it the less effective the terminals are in future levels, use cores to replenish their effectiveness.
- Fast travel points between Logistics terminals.
- PUT machines – (permission unlock terminal) use e – coins to unlock specific weapons permanently, use the terminal with an unlocked weapon and that then becomes free.
- The map fills in as you play.
- Combat has you using melee weapons, guns, dodges, equipment such as grenades, and then skills that you unlock.
- Beautiful backdrops.
- Big boss encounters.
- Overkill is where you get a series of hits untouched and this, in turn, grants you a period of stronger attacks.
- Collectible diary entries to find.
- Loot chests to open along with replenishment chests for gear and ammo.
- Slow motion kills can trigger.
- Tutorial pop-ups with videos as you play.
- Breakable objects.
- Devil May Cry/Bayonetta paced combat and style.
- Death will reset you back to July 8th in your apartment with memories left intact but the rooms/enemies/puzzles get randomized each run.
- You can let your cat.
- Cores can be used to buy permanent upgrades to your character via the tenacity skill tree. It is split into health, balance guarantee, and combat.
- Strong voicework.
- Your choices in the game affect the story.
- Save Ray is the guy to talk to about upgrading weapons and skill chips.
- Terminal Insurance is a reward where you get one free revive after activating so many terminals within a level.
- Traffic sections are little parts where you have to avoid traffic
- Setting to auto skip cutscenes.
- Multiple choice encounters in terms of destination.
- The set pieces are intense and creative.
- Fun novelty like weapons such as golf clubs.
Loopmancer Review Cons:
- Long initial load time.
- Terminal insurance is only good for the current level.
- So much going on it can make it hard to see what’s happening.
- Combat takes some getting used to.
- A lot of visual pop-ups.
- Knock back from enemies is almost broken with you flying literally countries away.
- A lot of the interactive stuff is on the right stick.
- Small text especially pop-up text on items.
- Boss fights are just big bullet sponge events.
- Constantly getting attacked by enemies off-screen.
- No way to look around the level by panning the camera.
- They drop f Bombs constantly and it not only cheapens the word but it makes the game seem desperate to be edgy.
- The grappling hook stuff is just a pain in both execution and point.
- Upgrading of weapons and gear is so generic and uneventful.
- Fun weapons to use but most of the time you will just pick a gun and upgrade it and never change.
- The dodge control messes up direction so often that it’s really hard to get a combo going.
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Loopmancer:
Developer: eBrain Studio
Publisher: Xu
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