Saturday, November 10, 2012

Lucius - Just another cliched name for a cliched game

First thing I want to ask is why is Satan always portrayed as an evil businessman in a suit? This game starts off with you as some dumb kid called Lucius. Yeah one of those cliched "evil" names. So apparently you're the son of Satan and he wants you to go around killing people for human souls. So you lock your maid in the freezer and then turn down the temperature. Then the detective starts narrating foreshadowing a huge series of murders. Some of them are brutal, and all of them are boring.

You'd think its impossible to screw up something like this. It'll be like Hitman but as a kid what can possibly go wrong! Everything. You have a huge ass fucking house but you probably use about 5% of it every mission. The second mission starts off with you walking around with no instructions. You're just blindly bumbling around until you open your map and theres a big arrow pointing where to go. You start walking then suddenly everything freezes and blood starts dripping from the walls and you zoom in on your dad's BFF. He is your target. So he's sitting there smoking a cigarette and you have to find a creative way to cause an accident.

Doesn't sound too bad yet right? No. You walk over steal his matches and now you have to find a way to cause an accident elsewhere. You steal some tools and fuck over the stove. When the guy tries to light matches it explodes on his face and burns him to death. Then like that the mission is suddenly over and you are thrown back in your room and a month has passed. Now you have to run around trying to figure out who your target is and what the fuck is going on. You walk into the bathroom and blood on wall shit happens again and this time its the drunk as fuck janitor. You kill him then get thrown back into room. Walk around see the butcher. Repeat.

HOW FUCKING BORING IS THIS. Its brutal as shit when you saw a guy's face in half or smash their brains with a piano and shit but come on this is boring. A mission can last between 1 minute to 5 minutes. I didn't get far but this is just the same thing over and over again. Can't we have bigger missions? Can't we use the whole house? Can't we have more of a intro story or something for every mission other than walk around randomly until you find a target. This is a giant piece of shit. It had potential for something awesome but they fucked it up.

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