It has a rather satisfying thunk that makes it a bit understated, but still boisterously destructive in any situation, and the sheer chaos that it’s alternate firing mode unleashes just makes it all the more wonderful. You have a fairly standard set of weapons, each with alternate firing modes and all of which are a literal and figurative blast to use.Īs a guy who tends to overuse shotguns in shooters, I found the shotgun here to have a nice personality to it.
Some enemies do seem to pop in right behind you with no indication other than the shots you take before you notice them, but outside of that the rollercoaster ride of Bright Memory’s combat rarely derails. There’s rarely a wrong answer in Bright Memory, and you got to love it for that. One area might be pretty straight forward, with armed guards of different types rushing you and playing to their strengths, while the next, might have some deliberate distance between you and them, forcing you to either whip out your sniper rifle and pop them from across the arena or grapple them to you and blow their heads apart like grapefruit while they’re in stasis.
Sure, the meat and potatoes of its gameplay is largely made up of “go to the next area and kill all the bad guys”, but it’s the arrangement of said bad guys, the variety of them, and the fact that Shelia’s arsenal often gives you multiple legitimate paths to victory over them, that keep it all consistently fun. In fact, if it weren’t for one completely unnecessary contrived stealth section, I’d say its pacing was pitch-perfect. Outside of that, the story rarely moves at all until the very end, but just as the game intends, you’ll usually be having too much fun to really care.īright Memory Infinite plays like it knows it’s only got a couple hours to show you everything it does, which is to say it rarely feels stale. Despite only getting to see Shelia talk a handful of times, she’s a character that I feel like I can easily root for, and despite only being introduced to the main villain halfway through its unsettlingly short story, I still felt the conflict between him and Shelia’s SRO organization brewing in a genuine way. The time-warped world that combines mythology with military technology is one that immediately grabs you from the jump and doesn’t let go until the credits. " Bright Memory Infinite certainly has borrowed from the best, which is the best way to borrow if you’re going to do it." That’s not to say that Bright Memory doesn’t feel like its own thing though, because it does. From the grappling hook that has the dual purpose of bringing vulnerable enemies closer to you and zipping you to new areas, to the wildly fast and satisfying sword slashing, Bright Memory Infinite certainly has borrowed from the best, which is the best way to borrow if you’re going to do it. Considering that the game is priced accordingly at just under $10, I don’t think that its short length is an inherently bad thing, but again, it’s good food for thought if you’re on the fence about picking it up.įans of the new Shadow Warrior games or Bulletstorm should immediately recognize most of Bright Memory’s ideas. I died plenty, but still managed to roll credits twice in less time than it takes to get half-way through most other FPSes. I was able to complete the game twice in just about 4 hours, and even though I adore the genre, I’m not what I would consider a master at it. Elephant number 2- the game is insanely short for the genre. So, while I won’t really factor that into my review of it as a finished product, it’s definitely worth pointing out for context. For the most part, Bright Memory Infinite successfully blazes down that same path with a bit of its own style and ultimately left me wanting more – mostly in the good way.Įlephant in the room number 1- Bright Memory is largely made by a one-man studio on Unreal Engine 4, and this would be worthy of praise even if the game was mediocre, but it isn’t. There is certainly nothing inherently wrong with deciding to make that trade off, as there are plenty of legendary first-person shooters that took a similar approach to great effect. Who is she fighting exactly? Who is this villain guy, Carter, who keeps talking about a primordial flood? And what is a primordial flood? While there are technically answers to those questions, Bright Memory Infinite isn’t nearly as interested in explaining itself in a satisfying way as it is with combining its handful of flashy ideas with its pseudo-cyberpunk aesthetic and making you feel like an actual badass the entire time. Throughout most of Bright Memory’s pithy campaign, you’re likely to be wondering who its main character, Shelia, really is.
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