henke on 20/1/2012 at 20:07
Yeah we should probably have a thread about this game. I'm playing it right now and I know a few of you have played it already and might want to chip in your two cents.
Shadows of the Damned is a third person actiongame for the 360(and PS3 I think), and it plays pretty much like RE4. You play Garcia Hotspur, traveling through hell in search of his girlfriend who got kidnapped by a demon. As your travelingcompanion you have a Brittish demonskull called Johnson who can transform into a motorbike, a torch, as well as several pieces of weaponry. I'm on Act 3-2 right now and still figuring out the finer points of the game. For instance I felt like I was running out of ammo for my revolver very easily and that getting a headshot on the demons and thus killing them was annoyingly difficult. THEN I figured out that you can also shoot the demons in the legs, causing them to fall over so you can run up and jump on their heads. AND I found out that I have two additional guns with full ammo in my inventory! D'oh!
As you might be able to tell by my plot-synopsis it’s a crazy game, but it’s a manufactured kind of crazyness. It didn’t just happen organically, like with Deadly Premonition for instance, but rather it’s been made to be crazy, and at times it feels a bit forced. That doesn’t keep it from being funny though. There are tons of great one-liners. At one point you come across your girlfriends decapitated head. Distraught, Garcia picks it up only for her eyes to shoot open with a maniac laugh. Then her headless body stumbles into the scene, picks the head up and screws it back in place. This prompts Johnson to quip “Welp, that kill my stiffy.”
Garcia keeps spouting great one-liners himself like he was channeling Ash from Evil Dead. In fact the whole scenario and gameworld is very reminiscent of “Army of Darkness”.
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I'll write more about it once I've finished it but so far so good. For now I can warmly recommended it to anyone who enjoys RE4-ish actiongames and dick-jokes! :)
henke on 21/1/2012 at 18:16
Hey gang! Thanks for keeping my Shadows of the Damned thread nice and tidy and unpoluted by your filthy posts! I was just playing it and came across this odd little interlude that I simply had to share. Even for those of you who never intend to play this game should check this out. I was in this creepy house, I go into the basement and find a book called "The Legend of Stinky Crow" so I press the X button and Garcia starts reading from it(with help from Johnson on the big words). What follows is a fantastic tale of a boy who wanted to fly. I present to you... THE LEGEND OF STINKY CROW!
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N'Al on 21/1/2012 at 18:18
What difficulty are you playing this on, btw?
henke on 21/1/2012 at 18:23
Normal. It's pretty easy for the most-part. Don't wanna restart on hard though, will save that setting for an eventual re-play.
Sulphur on 21/1/2012 at 18:26
Didn't everybody pan this for being too juvenile and scatological? I'd play it because, heck, no one does silly and puerile nonsense quite like the Japanese, but I'm not about to pay full price for it.
What I'm gonna haf to rely on, henke, is your description of how the gameplay is. Shinji did mothereffing Godhand which was so very ludicrous but also, more importantly, eminently playable and creatively quite bonkers even when it came down to the names of its combos (Ball Buster, anybody?). How's this doing in that department so far?
N'Al on 21/1/2012 at 18:27
Just be aware that there's a glitch with the Fleming boss fight on hard, which makes it seem as if he's impossible to kill. He's not though.
Also, game completion achievements don't stack, if you're interested in that sort of thing.
Also also, make sure to watch through all the way to the end of the credits once you get there. :cool:
N'Al on 21/1/2012 at 18:32
Quote Posted by Sulphur
Didn't everybody pan this for being too juvenile and scatological? I'd play it because, heck, no one does silly and puerile nonsense quite like the Japanese, but I'm not about to pay full price for it.
What I'm gonna haf to rely on, henke, is your description of how the gameplay is. Shinji did mothereffing
Godhand which was so
very ludicrous but also, more importantly, eminently playable and creatively quite bonkers even when it came down to the names of its combos (Ball Buster, anybody?). How's this doing in that department so far?
Gameplay isn't bonkers at all, really. Pretty standard fare. With the exception maybe of having to fight back the darkness quite frequently.
The story and setting are quite bonkers though.
Very juvenile as well, but not annoyingly so, I thought. I never really laughed out loud (like I did, say, in NOLF), but I did chuckle quite frequently. Not all the jokes work, but enough of them do.
henke on 21/1/2012 at 20:18
Quote Posted by Sulphur
Didn't everybody pan this for being too juvenile and scatological?
I have no trouble believing that tards all over the net were falling over themselves trying to show how mature they were by condemning a game in which checkpoints are marked by glowing pieces of shit(literally) and in which your gun is refered to as a "Boner" that can be upgraded to a "Hotboner" which shoots explosive sticky loads. Shadows of the Damned is absolutely juvenile and scatological. That doesn't mean it's not funny though. It is funny,
and the gameplay is good. Not great though. Not as good as RE4's. Mainly because the aiming feels a bit unnecessarily unwieldy.
catbarf on 22/1/2012 at 16:43
If the aiming's even more unnecessarily unwieldy than RE4's, I can't imagine how it's even playable.
N'Al on 22/1/2012 at 17:18
What a silly comment, the game is perfectly playable.
