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A timeless classic that holds up to modern day standards and remains to get a good laugh and catch the player off guard whenever it feels like. This creation is as brilliant as its concept, the game doesn’t hold back on any idea that was thought of within the studio, because the game takes place within a brain. At that point it’s the limit to the creators imagination and that vision was executed perfectly. From 2005 to 2025 I can see this game being discussed for another 20 years if not consistently recognized for what it accomplished.

The game’s feel is a conflict in and of itself. It’s a game where the character sways their gun and is hefty in animations, but expects you to meet every gunfight with precision and accuracy to feel cool when it lacks basic features like diving and omnidirectional sprinting. The game wants the player to feel smooth and graceful then it wants the player to feel tight and precise. Instead of attaching a sticky grenade to an enemy and using your timing to throw them the game just gives you the option to grab and turn any person into a grenade, in the same menu you could just kill them. That’s like saying do you want to kill someone you’ve grabbed the animation equivalent of dying in a janky way or turn them into a firework, it’s mindless! Trepang at its core exists for the same reason Doom does, but the core gameplay conflicts with itself. The story is as barebones as it gets. The ability to NOT be able to aim down sites and then hold off on giving the player the option to akimbo because of… a serum? Anyway at that point it’s why not akimbo everything. Trepang is just mindless nonsense and it’s at the fault of people who were higher up in the studio that had too much inspiration from too many varying sources. It makes the entire point of an over-the-top shooter not fun, it makes it mindless. If this game was made by one person I’d let it slide, but it was made by a studio. It gets one star, because the game exists, it gets another, because it’s kinda fun, but that’s just how humans find video games fun.

Celestine Prophecy is neat in the awareness it acknowledges that the people reading it are usually reading it, because a set number of events all brought them to a similar crossroads hence being the book. The work of literature and philosophy hits the big pictures of what it discusses very well and leaves the little things to the readers to understand more about in their own way, in a sense the book understands that our discoveries and inventions simultaneously unite and drive humans apart and offers the best of both worlds in terms of those two opposites. In fact that you’re seeing this is not a coincidence.

I wish I could do 4.1 stars or 4.3, because this game shines at just every aspect except early pacing. I’m just going to focus on the few negatives I noticed, because everything else is stellar. There could be more story elements to round out this game, but it’s really in a void of its own. I would like to say I believe the game being slightly shorter and then having a roguelike mode would’ve been the best, but the game was incredibly fun especially for a mobile game. On that note I would like to say the basic grunts in the game could be more daunting or funner to kill, I’d recommend taking a page out of ULTRAKILL’s book for that one. But as the game goes on the variety helps outshine the basic grunts that can cause gameplay to be more frustrating than make you feel like a folklore Rambo. I highly recommend especially on mobile, because this game can get lengthy and it’s fun to put some earbuds in and just game to become immersed