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Click on pictures of your shoes to walk in this free experimental horror FPSFight Nazis with fiddly controls in Neural Parasite
Fight Nazis with fiddly controls in Neural Parasite
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/softbushware
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/softbushware
You’re a prisoner in a Nazi research bunker where something has gone wrong, turn them into lumbering grinning zombies. To escape, all you need do is click a couple thousand times.
I was surprised/unhappy/pleased when I fumbled this reload and needed to click-click on through to reach the live round |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/softbushware
It’s not a complex game. Explore corridors, find keys, open doors, shoot monsters. It’s not difficult either, if you manage to keep your cool. The problem is that because the controls are unfamiliar and alien, you can’t fall back on seasoned FPS instincts. It takes active effort and concentration to do anything. Panic and you’ll fumble your clicks, maybe running towards something you’re trying to escape or fumbling a reload. Thankfully, you can find a limited supply of knives that’ll instakill enemies, automatically jammed into their skulls as an emergency backup if they get too close. You can outright evade some baddies too, if you’re feeling confident.
Neural Parasite never reaches the point ofWolfire’s excellent Receiver games, which use many individual keys to control every part of the surprisingly complex mechanisms of firearms. There, you come to feel surpremely cool and confident when you nail a reload under pressure. Here, you simply learn how to play the video game and have that learning tested under mild pressure. But I still found it fun, and it ended at a good point before the novelty wore thin or frustrating.
You can grab Neural Parasite freefrom Itch.iofor Windows. I’ve only now noticed that it launched on actual Christmas Day. God bless us, everyone.
Now I’m off to go play the game which inspired Neural Parasite,Car Game, which is also free. That does also make me want to revisitclassic ursine driving sim Enviro-Bear 2000.
