![]() Skill Forest: There are lots of skill trees to invest points in but much like the above, you rarely feel much more powerful in taking skill ranks.Hell, by the end you have to stack your poison pool gadget with the electric one, plus the health stealing gadget to take back those 300 points they took from you in one hit, and also the holographic decoy and keep at it for at least 5 to 10 minutes to kill a pack of freaking cockroaches, and I am not making that up. Even against the bog-standard spiderbot, the first damn enemy in the game, it always feels like you’re on the losing end. Foam hammers, Nerf Guns: For the insane ways in which normal enemies seem to buff up as you progress through the game, the equipment you find (weapons and gadgets) never feels powerful enough.I’ll say it again: THAT’S NOT HOW LIGHT WORKS!! A single candle in a dark room offers more illumination in real life than all the steampunk lights do in this game. Your built-in flashlight does absolutely nothing in most cases. You have light sources everywhere, but they illuminate a millimetre around them. Vaporum is the kind of game where the darkness feels like molasses, it’s cloying and not even the brightest light can dissolve it. That’s not how light works: That’s the phrase I mostly spoke out loud when playing this game.The cursor immediately locks into the nearest interactive spot, and you can quickly switch between multiples, leaving the free-roam cursor only for finding hidden buttons and such when you’re not in a hurry. No Mice Here: They really made it so the PS4 controls work really well with a game that almost screams Mouse & Keyboard.The clunky, convoluted and over the top Steampunk style does wonders for quickly identifying threats. Hot & Steamy: I’ve played many dungeon crawlers over the years and I’ve got to say, even though Vaporum shares their core mechanics, the Steampunk aesthetic does a lot for the game, it makes it stand out and gives the monsters a central concept to work around. ![]() What would you do if you shipwrecked, lost your memories, were the only survivor and the first thing you saw was a gigantic steampunk tower? Me, I’d start trying to hitchhike another ship, but in Vaporum’s protagonist’s case, he thought entering the ominous structure would be the best choice.
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