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There is a reason there is no gameplay video....becuase it lacks one.

The games I think is the best in the genré are these below that I will compare it too is at the bottom:

This is really a new favorite of mine to add to my Best swordbased combat games

Karateka(PC) & FIST 2(C64): I got that good feeling of the first old classics. That you slowly make your way towards the next enemy. Even though these 2 games where combat without swords it still has a strong resemblance two these two. Cool thing is that youcan get disarmed and then need to use Karate to fight your opponent or until you find a new weapon, the same goes for your enemy if they loose their weapon.

Tecnhu: with the sliding doors and simple combat style

Bushido blade 1: The true sense of power when you cut off limbs, even though it never happened in Bushido blade 1 you wounded your enemy so they had to lie down.

Graphics: Looks a bit like Tenchu on PSX except a lot more smoother and with no textures at all

Combat:
It´s very simple and calls itself Souls-like but the only thing that it has in common with it is that you can target lock your opponent when in combat. I also do love tht there is no Darksouls like bosses where they use the old Nintendo style with locking you into a tiny area. That part is the worst in the Darksouls series and an insult to the players from my point of perspective.You have 2 different stances: above cut or below cut. You can also jump away of combat and block.

Character progression:
I do enjoy that you can choose where you want to put you experience point at like on: Dexterity, strenght, stamina,health then you can also get different kinds of perks and also use armour. These points you still have after you died and had to restart.

Music & Sound:
Atmospheric and does it´s job in both areas, no more no less.

-:Absolute favorite Sword combat games:-
Bushido blade 1-2 (psx)
Exanima
Hellish quart (Indie pc game with Hema fighting)
For honor
Griefhelm (indie) (4player)
Katan Kata
Moonstone (Amiga)
Nidhogg (indie)
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
First Cut (indie)
Usagi Youjimbo ( C64)
Barbarian 1-2 ( C64, Palace software)
Kimono (indie)
Dark souls (Perhaps misplaced here)
Gladiator Begins (PS2) (Good character progression)
Severance blade of darkness
Kingdom Come: Deliverence

Others;
Mount & Blade Warband
Elium ( This is a game I will try more when it gets updated)
The Witcher
Pirates, Vikings, and Knights 1-2
Eggnog (indie)
Shining Blades (indie)
SHINKENDO (indie)
En Garde! (indie)
Way of the samurai
Warframe (Perhaps misplaced here)
Blade symphony
Shadow of Rome ( PS2)
Last blade 1-2 (arcade/MAME)

Most boring:
War of the roses

I love the Hitman games. This is NOT a Hitman game. Still its a solid game worth playing.
My fav stealth games:
Styx: Master of shadows ( And the sequel with Co-op play)
Hitman Blood money,Hitman 2-3( The old games), Hitman 1(New one)
Death to spies ( Extremly hard Hitman style game set in ww2 and cold war era)
Thief 1-2 ( Fantastic dialouge with alive AI and tons of atmosphere)
The Dark mod (Free Indiegame developed on the Doom3engine and based on Thief 1-2)

Hit man absolution is a very good action/stealth game. The thing with it is that you can really go all out psychopath in "Normal" difficulty and have a good shooting experience and just stab people to death but also that it´s a challenge to take all enemies out on the level. I truly enjoy this but it´s also what makes it NOT a Hitman game cause if it would be true to the franschise you would get killed quite quickly.

The problem is that Square enix bought Hitman from IO interactive and wanted to streamline it to fit into their other games. The thing with seeing through walls and seeing AI paths are also found in the THIEF game released by Square enix and also other game franschise that they bought and destroyed. Still Hitman Absolution is a very good action/stealth game even though it has nothing to do with the Hitman game mechanics at all. There´s also quicktime events whith cutscenes mixed with strong scripting where you run over a roof with a helicopter shooting. Game levels like that are mixed inbetween real good Hitman levels that are very true to the original games.


The story is quite good and there are some humour that is really neat. I do like the game alot and my patience with stealth games are not so good anymore so it fits me quiet well but still I got dissapointed since you can run and gun your way through levels.

"I am the worst hitman or the best"
When I play Hitman games I most of the time go all psycho and kill everyone including the civilians but once in a while I try to go stealth and be an actual real Hitman. So I must say this game is for me since it´s quite possible to progress with a psychostyle :D

So do I recommend the game Hitman fans?:
Hell yeah since it´s a very good stealth game and some levels are so damn good and really close to the original but it gets cheesy with all arcady action and that the possibility to treat it like a shooting gallery.
But I´m very happy that IO Interactive took control over the series again. Also the classic voice of Hitman was supposed to be skipped in later games but they seemed to get forced by overwhealming reactions from fans to put him back into the game series :D

- Does not start at all with either of the 2 VR options available

+ Wrote in the forum about it, Developer responds quickly and she said I could
just start it it in VR but it´s not possible at all. Only way I managed to start the game on Win10
if I go into the Folder of the game and choose "Compability mode Win7" but then it only start without VR.
Perhaps it can work with Vorpex but then you need to buy an extra software for 40euro to try that.

+ Refund is possible since I have only spend 20minutes with different setups to see if it works in VR but not any of the ideas that I was told would work actually works.

I can play Propagation and Blade Sourcery ( Steamgames) without problems so its not a computer problem it seems.

It seems like a good game if ure a busdriver enthusiast but DONT buy it for VR like I did.

I never played any hunting game before except a Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn which was fantastic in terms of hunting dinosaurs. I also hunted in Far cry Primal and Skyrim and very few other games.

What made me interested in the first place is that I do love exploration and I´ve also been a big fan of the huge maps in Arma2,Arma3 and the original Operation flashpoint and Armed assault. I dont spend much time in nature in reality but I love exploring landscapes in games since it doesnt take so much time to traverse and also they change a lot quicker.
Games I love with similar feel:

"Meditative hunting and adrenaline"
I think TheHunter Call of the wild is very meditative when it cames to roam the landscapes and just walking around and taking in the scenery. Then you get track of a bear or a boar running past quickly and you get the tension. At one point I tracked a brownbear and it started to get darker and I found myself tracking it in the middle of the night and then In the morning daylight this huge bear stood up and its backlegs and roared and I took a shoot at it and it went down on all fours and run towards me but skipped attacking and instead went in to the woods. It was quite scary to go after it even if I dont know what happens if you die.

Nature:
Far cry primal
TheHunter call of the wild
Chernarus (Island in Arma2)
Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
Skyrim
Witcher 3
Spintires

Wild life:
Far cry primal
Far cry 3
TheHunter call of the wild (A bit empty and unreal, I dont know if you have to buy animals to the game to get it more populated but it really feels a bit silly that there is so little birds overall or smaller creatures of the forest)

Graphics:
I cant see what could actually be improved here, perhaps that the snow would be responsive as in Assassins creed3 and also Mud and rain to be more like in Spintires. I really do appreciate the light when it breaks through in the treebranches

Atmosphere:
I must say you really feel like you are there, then again I sit in my sofa with a gamepad and I have my 42 inch screen 1meter from my face to really get inside of the game and not because of any bad eyesight haha :D

HUD:
I wish that you could change the transparency of some of the horrible icons that appears in the game instead of just changing colours of them. Also to make the compass and the HUD itself transparent to like 20% since it can be useful to have the winddirection or that it would be possible to just have a dot with a an arrow in grey in the corner so you could see the wind direction and an N to mark North, that would have been great.

Sound:
I think this game would be best played with headphones so you really can get immersed with the wind and to really find from what direction your hear animals aproaching close by. I think it quite much feels like being out in the forest.

Maps:
I recommend you to get the Taiga map and explore Sibiria, its quite a calming experience and good feel of solitude.

Broken " Contacting servers", nothing happens. I played it ten minutes some years back and forgot why I didnt play it more. perhaps I tried to get it to connect to server? ;D

Similar games I played ranking from best to worst

1. Dxball Good variation and addictive and lots of replayability
2 .Breakout: C64 version was very fun and god variation.
3. Caterpillarnoid: Quite okey gameplay, why not try it. Looks like garbage.
4. Arkanoid: Sharp crisp graphics even without nostalgic eyes, Fantastic music

Overall this gen´re isnt for me and the only one I have come back to over and over is actually Dxball.

So well made, but there is a ♥♥♥♥ item that you pickup sometimes by misstake and if you play alone your stonedead because it blocks you completely from shooting ;( ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up crap....

+ graphics
+ 4 player map
- bugged items
- only one map ;(

Other Sword games I played and enjoyed and not enjoyed can be found at the bottom.

Combat 9/10 ( minus the lag sometimes)
Graphics 7/10 ( Like bannerblade but better hip movement than that game)
Immersion 10/10 (Kingdom come rpg immersion is also 10/10)
Sound 6/10 It does its job except that it would be nice with voiced AI and sounds of dying
Loadingtimes: 1/10 It´s sick how slow it is to load and you get really bored and irritated.
Music 1/10
Utter garbage that you can´t turn off, super irritating and crap, thank the gods that you can download a mod named " No music". Most stupid developers choice ever to force music upon a player. This really breaks the levels that are not the dungeons ( In dungeons there are no music)

I only played the steam version since I love modding games so a game can be what it really wanted to be from the start before developers have to dumb games down for mainstream and sales. So if you want to play with mods I strongly recommend Steam version even though I think the Oculus also supports it. I´m actually so addicted to this game I probably will by that version aswell when I just want to drop into combat quickly instead of having the need to start my computer with steam and the oculus program.

I think Blade & sorcery is not really possible to compair since its a complete immersion of that you really are there and fighting. It really gives you the feel of what combat in melee is all about, namely that it´s very gritty and close up. Nowadays people take the easy way out and do the chicken thing and shoot people are throw a grenade in an apartment. If you should kill someone this is how it should be done because it takes courage to really do just that and it also feels like you really twists your mind and you become a complete savage because when you are in the middle of combat you just try to disable and take down your opponent the quickest. It really feels like your sword spear or weapon of choice really connects with the enemy.

Like I was in a a fight and lost my sword in the batlte so I just took up a dagger and managed to block the enemy attack with my shield and then slammed it in the head of my enemys head who was a slender youth with blue sad eyes that seemed to have his whole life in front of him...if he just hadnt met me and I saw the terror in those eyes just before I took my dagger and stabbed him in the neck several times and then kicked him over the edge of the stairs to hopefully make his comrades fall so I could get the upper hand and also stab them to death :D

My weapons of choice is thrusting weapons like the 2-handed Estoc or the tuck with no edges that you just try stab people in open areas like the neck or face if its armoured enemies. You also quickly learn that its a whole different matter when you meet those armoured knights since its really hard to find the weakspots in armour and you often need to block the first attack to be able to get in close to stab them in the face with your dagger.

Grabbing people if needed is also quite effective and just slam their head in a wall to get the upper hand. I just feel like I completely go into survival mode and do whatever it takes no matter the cost and the grit that it causes. It just feels like you are a complete psychopath haha which I also kind of enjoy but also get frighten by.

-:Tactical combat:-
It´s so much fun to deal with each combat situation that comes in your way. First time I meet two opponents they tried to split up one on each side of me which is a completely valid tactic, I then choose to fall back in a hallway to be able to take them out one at a time.
Another time I meet an archer that tried to shoot me from the side while I was facing an opponent in melee, so I just had to be crouched to hide under this low wall so she couldnt aim at me and I had to go for stabbing my other adversary in the knees and feets to and then deal with the archer afterwards. Another time I faced 6 opponents at the same time I went out on a small edge at a castlewall to just meet two at time. Managed to stab and then kick one off the edge and the others I dealt with face to face but they got a bit of problems with bodies which suited me fine since they where more hungry for me than I for them so the continued forward to me.

-:Dont kill me pleeaseee!:-
First time I meet an enemy that lost her weapon I let her just move backwards out of the combat while I dealt with her companion but then she grabbed a weapon of course and didnt returnt he favor. So after that fight I allways stab orh slash opponents to death directly even if they dont have weapons anymore. First I feelt bad but you got to think its you or them!!! :D

-:Parkinsons disease & swords:-
Sometimes the game can stutter when there are to many enemies and it kind of gets into a slowmo combat. This function allready exists but I just think slowmo is not true combat. So these slowdowns I´m not sure if it´s because of my computer or if its something else like that I added a weapon armour pack with 300+ items. But I must say even if I had Parkinsson I think its so much worth few bucks this actually costs to the amount of share quality in terms of combat.

If I should compare the feeling to when a sword connects to a body I think I must first say Chivalry: Medieval Warfare ( That feel when you sweep youré twohand and to late understand you cut both a friend an a enemy down at the same time. Also Exanima have this very good feel of connection to thebody.

I have not played it on the absolute hardest difficulty yet but I think you as a player can take to much damage and cuts compared to the AI you meet. Even though I think I´m quite good you still feel that it´s not on equal terms. Also it seems like the enemies prefer sweeps and hacking and never thrusts with weapons. It´s also quite often happening that they do suicidal jumps with overhead cleave but its quite easy to block those and instead run them through. This attack takes you a bit out of the game and make you feel its just another game since I´m sure noone would do these attacks in reality.

-:Climb my ass off:-
I think that the climbing can be a real hassle since I haven´t got into how you do it effective so when I one time lost my grip in a fight and feel down a steep area I feelt like it was easier to restart and spend like more than the ten minutes I allready spent to try to learn how to climb.

-:Procedural generated dungeons: -
This is really gold when it works and you feel intrigued where to go next since it´s randomly built each run. Only bad part is that sometimes a door is locked and you cant continue, not sure if its a bug or I just didnt get where to look for the entrance to the dungeon so I can´t really judge it like bug yet.

-:Mod support:-
Fantastic that they devs had this in mind the whole time. I added 300+ items and weapons so I could try out new fun weapons and also a mod that makes the blood more realistic, next I will add the sharper AI mod to get more skilled enemies.

-:Absolute favorite Sword combat games:-
Bushido blade 1-2 (psx)
Exanima
For honor
Griefhelm (indie)
Kingdom Come: Deliverence
Moonstone (Amiga)
Nidhogg (indie)
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
First Cut (indie)
Usagi Youjimbo ( C64)
Barbarian 1-2 ( C64, Palace software)
Kimono (indie)
Dark souls (Perhaps misplaced here)
Gladiator Begins (PS2)
Severance blade of darkness

Others;
Mount & Blade Warband
Elium ( This is a game I will try more when it gets updated)
The Witcher (Perhaps misplaced here)
Pirates, Vikings, and Knights 1-2
Eggnog (indie)
Shining Blades (indie)
SHINKENDO (indie)
En Garde! (indie)
Way of the samurai
Warframe (Perhaps misplaced here)
Blade symphony
Shadow of Rome ( PS2)
Last blade 1-2 (arcade/MAME)

Most boring:
War of the roses

RTS games in the same gen´re with waves that are MUCH BETTER:

Age of darkness (Very similar to this but very good and have a creepy atmosphere with superbly polished graphics.
Bad north (A bit similar with sweet cute graphics and very tactical gameplay)
They where millions ( Not as good as the above but so much better than Conan and quite cozy relaxed until...)
Other RTS games that are on the top for me:
Men of war assault squad 1 and 2 ( If you dont use mods since it usually breaks the game in a freeze)
Cossacks 2

Graphics:
Worst HUD and unit markers I have seen in a game
The mainmenu screen is extremly unpolished with fonts that doesnt work well together and it feels very rushed. Also in the game there is really no scale to the houses or units. It feels like pygmees lives in the houses or you and the troops you have are all giants. I mean I can stand catapults with noone draging them along in Age of empire 2 but it´s since its so old.
Also the unit markers in game that does not really work well together overall. So seen with an artists eyes its a pile of garbage.

Gameplay:
Gamewise I think it can be quite good but for me its so hard to look behind that. Also after the first wave you meet you have your walls to protect...suddenly spiders come rushing down from the mountainside and you understand it was kind of pointless to build them. Graphics wise it feels quite outdated and it reminds me of Warcraft 3.