Instead, the game plays closer to a traditional top-down shooter, which does give the overall experience a fairly different feel than most of its peers. Flanne's release is not an auto-attacker, which is the standard for the vast majority of these releases. The thing that sets 20 Minutes Till Dawn apart from Vampire Survivors and other similar games is its combat. The fun comes from experimenting with builds to see which ones last the longest, and the lineups of characters and weapons offer quite a bit of variety. As with most of these games, defeat sends players back to the start, although they can use their acquired gems to unlock new characters or items for future runs. Somewhat similar to Vampire Survivors, the top-down shooter challenges players with surviving waves of enemies for 20 minutes, earning experience gems along the way to secure upgrades. The question now is whether it’s worth your precious time.20 Minutes Till Dawn has enjoyed quite a bit of success since its debut, be it on mobile in 2022 or PC in 2023. There's fun to be had, but at this rate, it’s hard to see where the Saints Row franchise will go from here–if this doesn’t end up being its swansong.īut hey, now it’s free so if you’ve been on the fence and aren’t averse to using the Epic Game Store as a launcher, you can try it out without spending a single red cent. None of it’s to do with wokeness, though it’s just a tired format for 2022, with uninspiring dialogue from restricted characters, repetitive missions, lackluster combat, endless driving, and its most underdeveloped storyline yet. I simply can’t think who’ll be genuinely delighted or impressed by this game–open-minded fans will be let down by its half-story and meagre evolution critics could fairly name six or seven third-person shooters in the last three years that do it better.

In a weird way, I don’t regret completing Saints Row, but it’s because I’m a fan who knows what I was getting into I just didn’t think it’d be such a blast from the past.

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