Unseelie is a single player conversion for Half-Life 2 that engages the player in a third person action-adventure quest to save a magical forest overrun with evil Unseelie. Using the elemental abilities of fire and ice, the player beats back the Unseelie and their blight infestation. The player uses knowledge of the elements to pass through environmental puzzles and destroy enemies.
A cute choice of words now in 2020? This is a third person fantasy shooter (?) about some unnamed woman flinging only 2 forms of magic at ice-fire bear monsters in strange aztek-esque temples. Blasting through this little time waster is worth every 8 fireballs out of 16.
Curiously, the game more seems like a proof of concept, a tech demo of sorts. It lacks both depth and story, despite quite a substantial size of the team that designed it. However, the aesthetics are pretty nice and retain their charm throughout the small <1 hour campaign.
The magic, the enemy variety and the controls, the linear map layout, despite their interesting looks is more bare bones than skeletons in someone's backyard. The game holds off on every bit of information it can, only letting us grasp 4 or so bits of text on the screen. I forgot, the very text is based around controllers in spite of the game not acknowledging XBOX one input (my hint, press space when close to an object).
The game is almost laughably easy, with turret enemies being barely an inconvenience, while the melee based enemies deal massive damage, but are slower than a paraplegic grandma.
This puzzles me! Everything from the looks down to the ideas and the size of the team just reeks of a potential that failed to bloom. Were they over ambitious? Or is this just some random mishmash of canceled projects?
If anyone knows the story behind its development, please do not hold off on the details.
All in all, I recommend this piece. Just look at it as a Demo that never furthered into something bigger.
Thanks coming this far
yours
Sebastian Stag Agner
Can't change some of the keybinding from the options menu and tutorials give prompts for controllers and not keyboard.
Unseelie is a single player conversion for Half-Life 2 that engages the player in a third person action-adventure quest to save a magical forest overrun with evil Unseelie. Using the elemental abilities of fire and ice, the player beats back the Unseelie and their blight infestation. The player uses knowledge of the elements to pass through environmental puzzles and destroy enemies.
IMINUR Games is: Nick Adrian, Nathan Bolt, Greg Cherlin, Ken Cheung, Ethan Compton, Peter Dannenberg, Patrick Dempsey, Andrew Dobbs, Philip Griess, Kevin Hsu, Kris McMahan, Clancy Powell, Ian Shadden, Ryan Sheehan