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Eisenhorn Xenos Alternative Review
Well, with all my respect to toucharcade reviewers the genuine enjoyment and strong emotions provoqued by this game on me drived me to give my 50 cents.
Eisenhorn Xenos is a game developed by Pixelhero Games, the same that gave us the incredible Spiral Episode 1.
Its based on the book of the same name, wich i learned is part of the profuse Warhammer mitology. Frequently some releases are heralded as "a true console experience in your ios device" with doubtful merits. Eisenhorn Xenos is one of the few examples on appstore that deserves this statement. Not only for the graphics, wich are great on the base of the Unreal Engine 3. What we got here is a complex game that combines sucefusly a great and profund story, hack and slash mechanics, stealth, light puzzle solving. One close reference may be the first Batman Arkham Asylum, but this time taking a complex and contradictory character, a detective that works for the imperial warhammer factions. In a gaming world plagued with one-dimentional characters, Gregor Eisenhorn is (im gonna cite some Warhammer geeky blog) a sort of Citizen Kane tormented by his memories, remorses and their contradictions with his strong values. It seems that the merit of the creation of such rich character belongs to the original writer of the novel. But, what im saying here is that Pixelhero deserves the merit of capturing this complex and contradictory escence on a game. The rithym of the story is developed with the care of film directors. Sometimes i feel a strong urge to solve a puzzle or win a fight just to learn what happens next. Does the game has flaws? Maybe. Combat animations as some reviewers noted are a little clunky.
But the game allready weights arround 3 gb wit those great graphics (in contrast to the 7gb of pc version, nice optimizing work, pixelhero) how many extra storage could more detailed animations take?
The mechanics for me are okay, making me remeber those original of console Arkham Asylum, a little striped down, of course (my god, most ios users use the touchscreen for playing. probably bringing more complexity on combats could made the interface less friendly). Also, as toucharcade reviewer stated the story is sometimes a little confusing and maybe a litlle dificult to follow on some parts for no-Warhammer-habitues. I must agree only in part with this with some observation: I know little of Warhammer mitology. Just the knowledge provided by other ios games. Sometimes i needed to rewind some piece of the story to follow the meaning but, with some deduction i managed myself to understand the narrative. I think that the apparent flaws of the game are the other side of it strenghts: some sacrifices must be made, to fulfill the mission of bringing complex and profund gaming experience to the plattaform. My only constructive critic to pixelhero fellows concern to marketing desicions on the way they managed PC version. Its true that the PC version (wich i also purchased) feels a little dated on steam competitive context. Ifeel they could made a better move releasing this version right now on ios and take some longer time to make a remastered HD version for PC. Such desicion, maybe, could been helpful in promoting the deserved succes on PC plattaform. Anyway, i must agree with pocketgamer review that gave the game a strong 9 considering it a GOYT. Also, in a totally subjetive point of view, pixelhero gave me a 10/10 experience. Do i have some personal relation with pixelhero. No. Im just a fan of their work. What do i expect in change of providing a little support with this positive review? Nothing more than motivate this team to keep up the good work and invest again in such quality gaming experiences in the future. A lot of mobile gamers like me need them and value them a lot. Thank You
Eisenhorn Xenos Alternative Review
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