Hegis' Grasp: Evil Resurrected

“Graphically, the game is way out of date and somewhere between a PS1, PS2, or N64 game.”

“The graphics are bog-awful: excess murk aplenty, plants that contrast said murk with their stark whiteness (almost as if they've fallen into a parallel 'negative' dimension), and barely-evocative environments as far as the eye can see.”

“Absolutely terrible, they ruin the atmosphere completely, with disproportioned lens flares and reflections on metal, badly realized distance fog, pop-in of trees and elements is evident and unjustified for the graphics it delivers, textures and models are mostly low poly and mediocre.”

“It's janky and unsatisfying to play... and any experienced gamer will tell you, the handling, responsiveness, and general gameplay feel of the control scheme must be well polished for this kind of game to succeed.”

“Unfortunately, this is something the developer seems to have phoned in, with little to no apparent gameplay testing.”

“The gameplay of Hegis' Grasp is a very basic survival horror experience, with very limited exploration and approximated combat.”

“This game lacks any atmosphere that could have made the experience somewhat decent.”

“The atmosphere, which is a crucial part of the survival horror experience, is ruined by awful graphics and shaders, lens flares the size of tiny suns, a horrible white outline on distant objects (result of poorly made distance fog), ridiculous animations especially in third person, enemies going straight through walls, and really choppy and clunky cutscenes.”

“Absolutely terrible, they ruin the atmosphere completely, with disproportioned lens flares and reflections on metal, badly realized distance fog, pop-in of trees and elements is evident and unjustified for the graphics it delivers, textures and models are mostly low poly and mediocre, the only appreciable things are some texture on melee weapons and the dynamic shadows, which do little to save this disaster.”

“Control is poorly optimized.”

“Performance is incredibly bad; a GTX 1080 playing this at 4K gets 40 frames a second, which is similar performance to Shadow of the Tomb Raider at 4K - which is leaps and bounds above this game graphically.”

“Enemies going through walls and doors, hits not registering, enemies being in the same position after reloading a previous save, enemies spawning inside safe houses after loading a game, instantly killing the player. A game-breaking bug occurred with a boss fight in chapter 3 when, after killing the boss, a rain of money sacks erupted from the boss itself, degrading performance very badly and overflowing the map with thousands of money bags to the point of crashing the game.”

“The music is nothing special to expect either.”

“Pretty much everything is royalty-free music.”

“Variable (though mostly crappy) voice-acting, ridiculous sound effects (galloping deer are a true terror to behold!), and no end of mysterious noises and eerie musical surges that seemed to signify...well, not much of anything, as far as I could see.”

“One long, tedious grind.”

“You'll need a second life for grinding.”

“A bit grindy... sometimes.”

“This feeds into the real theme here, the game is simply an unpolished, buggy mess.”

“Graphically this game is solid, only encountered a couple of glitches, but the devs have mentioned these are removed. Personally, some features in the game don’t need to be included.”