Reviewers Liked
- Good sense of humor
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Short yet frustrating
Hack 'n' Slash
70
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Once you have actually solved these puzzles, it becomes apparent how fiendishly clever Hack 'n' Slash actually is. The game derives a self-referential humour not through dialogue alone, but by gradually pulling back the curtain on the way games actually function. There's a fierce intelligence behind the way in takes the well-trodden Zelda formula and framing the puzzles as cheeky explorations of pure game logic.
By GameSpot onThat's Hack 'n' Slash. It starts with good intentions, but eventually becomes an inside joke between programmers. I'm sure it's funny if you get it, but I wasn't laughing.
By PCGamer onHack N’Slash is both a perfect pun and an amazingly clever game; one that does have a tendency to get so wrapped up in being clever that the gameplay suffers for it, unless you and its creators are on the exact same wavelength, but which does at least let you feel smart as well.
By IGN onHack 'n' Slash starts as a clever game about game design, but ends up feeling like...
By PC Gamer onThe latest experiment to pop out of Double Fine is built around a pun so brilliant and so obvious, you wonder why nobody has done it before.On the surface, Hack 'n' Slash is a charmingly illustrated Zelda clone, a top-down adventure in which you explore...
By eurogamer.net onE3 2014 allowed us to see Hack N Slash, a product of Double Fines Amnesia Fortnight Game Jam, grow up from a simple sprite based prototype into a fully realized game, and let me tell you it's awesome. This game isn't just an interesting action adventure...
By Cheat Code Central onEarly Access reviews offer our preliminary verdicts on in-development games. We may follow up this unscored review with a final, scored review in the future.Version reviewed: May 30 update Recommended: Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.2 GHz/AMD Athlon 64 2.2Ghz, 3...
By PC Gamer onLa idea de Hack ‘n' Slash nace durante Amnesia Fortnight 2012, un maratón de dos semanas de duración donde se crearon prototipos de juegos que serian finalmente desarrollados por completo si resultaban como favoritos. Al igual que Costume Quest, el...
By pcmrace.com
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Here is a videogame where you can hack into the code of the videogame. Whoa!When we're playing adventure games, exploring exotic worlds and battling evil emperors, we'd sometimes think to ourselves: wouldn't it be great if we could mod this game so that...
By thestar.com.my onHack ‘n' Slash è, senza dubbio, un prodotto di nicchia.Timido ed immediato in partenza, assume un piglio diabolicamente geniale nei pressi del traguardo, grazie all'inconfondibile tocco da maestro di casa Shaffer che rivoluziona il ruolo passivo del...
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