Sure, Doom Eternal is tough too, but you also don’t die in one hit. There’s nothing as sore as succeeding in a close encounter only to be picked off by unsuspecting enemy fire. However, these are rarely enjoyed as one-on-one encounters since you’re often required to juggle multiple threats. There’s even an exhilarating boss fight that feels like a first-person sci-fi Sekiro. One of the better challenges lets you clash blades against other katana-wielding enemies, as you time your parries first to stun before delivering the kill. These continue ratcheting up, such as robots who blast projectiles with a massive hit area, while the less said about the miserable bastards that explode at close proximity, the better.īut Ghostrunner isn’t always frustrating. Add big shield-bearing brutes who also have a forcefield on top of that, it starts to seem like overkill. The one-hit death rule is hardly fair when it doesn’t strictly apply to enemies who are protected by force fields, which can only be disabled when you locate and destroy the emitters, usually placed higher and further out of reach. However, Ghostrunner’s difficulty more often than not crosses the line between tough and ridiculous. Of course, hardcore players will tell you to “git gud”, and having persevered through hellishly difficult games like Dark Souls, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Hades, I would be inclined to agree. While the early missions work as tutorials easing you into the mechanics, it’s also not long before the game starts to run ahead of itself, the challenges becoming more demanding as you struggle to keep up. You can even activate a Matrix-style bullet-time dash that lets you strafe-dodge before dashing closer within slicing distance.Įach arena is almost a puzzle as you learn your enemies’ positions, figure out the best route to reach them and then take them down, the last kill slowing down the action as if a sign for you to catch your breath. Instead of running straight into someone’s blaster fire, you can deflect fire back with your katana or approach from another angle such as wall-running (and outrunning) enemy attacks. Your ninja skills become more meaningful and freeform when engaging with enemies. Unfortunately, the breakneck pace means you’re not often given the chance to savour the grimy industrial cyberpunk visuals that’s accompanied by the pulsing electronica soundtrack from retrowave producer Daniel Deluxe, which wouldn’t feel out of place pounding a dark, sweaty warehouse rave. For the completionist, there are also artefacts and sword skins to find scattered about each level.Missions are structured like multiple arena-sized combat encounters interspersed with parkour platforming, which can be just as thrilling as you wall-run and kick off multiple panels, laser-lasso up to new heights then crouch-slide down a slope at high speed before dropping into the next set piece. The further you progress, the more special abilities and upgrades you have at your disposal and the more you can use. However, any frustration generated by your failed attempts is tempered by how quickly you can get back into the action to try again.Ī variety of increasingly challenging enemies will block your path through the tower, but your progress will be aided by four unlock-able special abilities and an upgrade system that allows you to tailor your powers to the specific requirements of each mission. You can expect to try missions many times over as you attempt to plot a successful and bloody path through each level. Playing as a cybernetic ninja, you, like your enemies, die after only a single strike. You play as the last Ghostrunner, a cybernetic super-solider, tasked by The Architect to save the remains of humanity from The Keymaster and their army of brutal thugs.Įach mission is like it's own little combat puzzle box, where movement and momentum are key to your success.
The game is set inside a skyscraper in a post-apocalyptic Cyberpunk world, littered with graffiti and neon lights. Along the way you'll use your ninja fighting skills to takedown any enemies you encounter in both the real world and cyberspace. Played from a first-person perspective, you navigate the world using parkour-like skills, running on walls, sliding through gaps or jumping and swinging over them. Ghostrunner is a challenging, fast-paced fighting game with a puzzle solving element.
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