It’s no secret that I’m a large fan of Doom-era FPS design. The mixture of velocity, simplicity and scalability is a heady combine that holds robust to this present day, as demonstrated by the multitude of latest makes an attempt to recapture that really feel via the likes of Devil Daggers, Dusk, Strafe and Overload, in addition to Doom’s personal timeless modding scene.
When a sport comes alongside that will get my Doom Senses tingling (Rip and tear!), but additionally makes me giggle, I determine it’s price sharing. So come and check out Fish, a brand new ‘Fish Person Shooter’ from Brazil presently searching for funding to assist it to completion. Hit the bounce for some video and a playable demo.
I can’t deny that the MS Paint-y model has a sure appeal to it. You can try it for yourself here, and if it tickles your fishy fancy, you may throw some cash at it over at IndieGoGo here. No stretch objectives, simply $15,000 wanted to assist flip the present demo right into a full sport, with $10 counted as a preorder on the ultimate product.
While clearly extra Doom than something, Fish has a number of intelligent concepts of its personal, before everything being the grappling fishhook. Being a hard-bitten man of the ocean, shirtless protagonist ‘The Pescador’ has a shiny silver hook-hand that may be fired at any time. Snag an merchandise or enemy and it’s pulled in direction of you. Hit a wall or ceiling and also you’ll be pulled to it. It makes for a considerably extra vertically cellular sport than Doom was, and it doubles as an ever-present melee weapon too. It’s an excellent mechanical hook, in each sense.
One secondary piece of excellent design is the checkpoint system. As you kill enemies, they drop scales. These refill somewhat blue gauge in your HUD, which you’ll spend 1 / 4 of at any level to create a checkpoint that you just’ll revert to for those who die. It takes a number of seconds, however you get sufficient to do that semi-regularly. It’s a pleasant different to limitless quicksaves that ought to assist maintain frustration low throughout bigger ranges.
My solely complaints with the demo are that the bounding bins on some obstacles and enemies really feel somewhat too massive, and that I ought to be capable of squidge via gaps a tiny bit simpler. Beyond that, all it wants now to take a web page from Pirate Doom’s e book and have the hats pop off your enemies when killed.
