Trepang2 (2023)

While Trepang2 is framed as the spiritual successor to F.E.A.R., it's effectively a high-speed blender for the best of 2000s-era gaming. It pulls from a deep cache of influences: Doom's kinetic shooting, Bioshock's conspiracy-laden mystery, and Crysis-style sci-fi abilities, all pitted against the zealots and hordes of Resident Evil and Wolfenstein. The creepypasta-inspired narrative - especially the final chapter - is simple and satisfying, providing just enough context to fuel the chaos without ever imposing on the flow. While no single element of Trepang² is revolutionary, the sum of its parts is a well-calibrated nostalgia trip. By refining the best tropes of the 2000s into a single, cohesive package, it delivers a relentless experience that keeps you invested and entertained until the very end.

Pros: story, homages and easter eggs, enemy and environment design, combat abilities Cons: player cosmetics that the player can't ever see, occasionally disappearing objective markers, a clunky "base" that requires the player to walk-sprint end-to-end and back to initiate the next mission

Trepang2 is a shooting range game where the main hero, 106, has two abilities: slowing time and invisibility. All the gameplay is based upon those two abilities and, I must say, it feels really cool to play this game.

As I mentioned before, the game is basically a shooting range with a small storyline, but because of the short period of the story, you won't get bored by the end of the game. But it's also a game downside: for me, there are not enough guns to annihilate enemies with, and the straightforward story, the ending of which I guessed from the middle of the game.

You can also customize weapons by finding weapon parts on missions. This makes you search every corner of the location, but for me, at one moment I just stopped searching and went right to the end.

I really like the game style: brutal bosses, tactical military all around you fighting for their lives, blood, dead bodies, and flying heads, mwahahahaha.

Locations in game are also interesting, for example, i did not expect any horror mechanic in this game, especially this room...

And that's it, simple, brutal, exciting. Finished it on hard difficulty, so i can also recommend you to play. Thanks for reading.