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Jydge by Mischief Maker 04/21/2018, 11:13am PDT
Holy cow! All these years I've been turning my nose up at Neon Chrome when it showed up in humble bundles and sales, only to find out that it's Crimsonlands 2!!!

I learned this from Jydge, a spinoff game that uses the same engine and setting. The premise is you're Judge Dredd with the details changed just enough to avoid a lawsuit (though the addition of the English court wigs to the uniform was fucking genius.)

Gameplay-wise, this is a cross between Hotline Miami and Crimsonlands. Maps are hand-crafted and you need to finish one objective and two bonus objectives to unlock equipment and new missions. Often these bonus objectives are mutually exclusive, and levels are meant to be replayed multiple times, with certain actions causing a permanent change in future playthroughs. For example, one level requires you to kill the leader of a riot in an outdoor shopping center and one of the bonus objectives is to finish the mission in 25 seconds. There is a route straight to the leader, but it's blocked by a locked door and a named elite enemy, but if you find the key and open the door, then kill the named elite, in future playthroughs the door will be open and the named elite won't spawn so you can beeline for the riot leader and launch several rockets straight into his face.

Before every mission you gear up by picking your gun, special attack, and up to 7 Crimsonlands perks. All the old weapon families are there, from plasma guns to ion blasters, and with a couple adjustments they function much like you remember. A nice part of the game is different objectives call for very different loadouts. Finishing the mission without being spotted calls for stealth perks and sniper guns, endless survival missions call for plasma bursting reload and close range electrical discharges, etc. This gets even trickier in missions where you have to save hostages, and avoiding civilian deaths in general is required to get the good ending.

The music is really enjoyable and while the graphics are very blocky and basic, they're brightly colored and the action happens from a bird's eye view. Level scenery is mostly destroyable, with some perks allowing you to smash through walls.

Overall it's pretty okay, but everything this game does well, some other game does better.
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Jydge by Mischief Maker 04/21/2018, 11:13am PDT NEW
    Very well, then. I shall purchase it. NT by Ulrachi 04/21/2018, 6:35pm PDT NEW
        I really wouldn't suggest getting it unless it's on sale. by MM 04/21/2018, 8:29pm PDT NEW
            I suspect Ulrachi is a bot. by Kirahu Nagasawa 04/24/2018, 6:22pm PDT NEW
 
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