Kirtide
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worse than cracklife
better than raising the bar redux and pretty much all the "beta" mods out there
10/10
Think I'd rather play Dear Esther than this. Levels are way too long and confusing which make it feel like a literal walking simulator and if you're one that hasn't seen HL2 beta stuff in the past then good luck finding out where to go.
There also seems to be very little originality in the map design. A few places actually feel like they were pulled from the old beta content and mashed together very lazily. A couple I immediately recognised was the Terminal Plaza and the "Free TV" (haha yes funny meme) map which has been ported to GMod near countless times to the point where its burned in my brain. Adding to that some of the lighting in these maps don't make sense like the sun colour and which way its casting, could be wrong but it feels very off. Also some of the other areas like the "factory district" seem largely unchanged from the beta content.
On another note on originality, during the sequence where you first meet Kliener, is that dialogue actually original? Having played a very similar mod Dark Interval it almost feels like it was ripped straight from that, I could be wrong but some of the lines seemed almost word-for-word.
The mod does seems to do a pretty decent job of capturing the old beta feel and atmosphere, but its very much the same with how other mods have done this in the past.
I was going to write another paragraph full of blah but honestly I don't know what else to bring up apart from "come back later until its better". Though that seems somewhat unlikely from what this first release contains, unless the dev team REALLY get their game together starting from now its gonna be a very bumpy ride. I could go on about the some of the voice-acting, textures and materials etc used but I'm just going to leave it here. As of right now being a first release its very sloppily put together and unfortunately feels like another one of those wannabe beta revival mods from years past (that rarely work).
mmmm
