I mean, if you sat down to play Super Mario Brothers, and were handed a controller that made you randomly jump, would that be a good challenge? No, it’d be shit.

I can see, in 5 years or so, the Angry Video Game Nerd will take a piece out of this game, just like he took the other Ghostbusters franchise games to school.

Rent it on console to get your nostalgia rocks off, return it and forget it.

There’s just something so tiring and uninspiring about each of the battles.

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I found the Cherubs right near the end so hard I nearly gave up on the game / cried.”

I second this, it nearly brought me to tears as a (sort-of) adult male. My very similar strategy was to stand facing the gate, juking left and right when projectiles are fired. Then when a cherub flies in for a melee attack, juke and tether. It’s actually quite easy this way. Impossible by any other method (I know I restarted 50 times at least).

I don’t view this as a spoiler as much as suicide prevention assistance.

“I’m sorry, I’ll be more positive about negative experiences next time”

Alec what exactly is that in response to? No one criticized your viewpoint, or said you were wrong. Matter of fact nearly all (up to your reply) agreed with you. There’s no point in even giving us response options if you guys are going to be so hyper-sensitive to dissenting opinions.

And if you do pick it up again, try it with a gamepad, like a 360 or a Logitech. I played with a Rumblepad 2 and it’s very smooth and intuitive. I do agree with the candlestick criticism; the game play balance is one of the primary criticisms I have. They just throw too many enemies at you at once. It gets better, then worse, then better…But I enjoyed the “better” parts.

It’s too bloody hard trying to goop enough of them into the gates while avoiding the two-hit-kills arrows, or one-hit-kills charges. Ray is useless here. I found that running/dodging back and forth like a muppet right in front of the gates causes the cherubs to charge you, miss, and destroy the gates for you.

Works like a voodoo charm.
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I kinda agree; I would gladly buy most games without multiplayer in exchange for a discount. In this case, though, they were swearing all along that the PC version would have multiplayer, and to my knowledge never said otherwise until after it had already shipped and people started calling them on it. At least they cut the price down by $10, but they should have said something ahead of time.

What I don’t quite get is that last year at E3, when the game was scheduled to ship in four months, they were still talking about multiplayer on all platforms… but now they say they “didn’t have time” to implement it on PC. What, so it wasn’t in the game yet, they thought they could do it in four more months, and it turned out that twelve months wasn’t enough? (I’ve heard that they were able to continue working on the game up until its new release date, at least, but that might not be the case.)