Breakdown

[Kidnemo]

All water under the bridge, I won't be playing that sucker again anytime soon.

*makes fist shaking motion*

[Kidnemo]

Did they ever really tie up the story line with the giant down by Nexus?

I know they said something about it not evolving there, and they thought it was some type of caretaker, but thats about all I remember seeing.

[kingoffighters]

Bought this at Target for $19.99.... Great game, I really enjoy it, just beat those 2 damn T'Lans in the fire building hehe.

[Grave]

The part of this game before I was able to fight back against the T'lans made me want to throw this game out and forget I ever had anything to do with it.

That said, since I got past there, so many fucking ridiculously stupid things have happened and yet I keep playing. It feels like one of those "die until you don't" games where trial and error is the only way to do anything, and even then, it doesn't always work. Like when I had to grab the inside of that elevator? I got beaten down 3 times before I could get it to work right. Whee. Now I'm trying to successfully fight in fire without accidently burning myself to death, because apparently crawling around on the ground causes smoke inhalation and makes you die.

Right.

This game is a clunky, difficult-to-play trainwreck and yet I still want to keep going. I'm confused.

[Sl1p]

Im still stuck at the same part..

Where you're running down that area, shutting off all the water valves while Solus chases you. I got to open the final door and he killed me mid-animation.

Umm..What the fuck do I do? Is it all luck?

[Green]

Just keep doing it, you almost had it. He got one punch in one me when I did it right.

[Kidnemo]

lol @ Grave & Slip!

Tis the beauty of Breakdown!

And Slip, you're really close, what I suggest:


After you have all the valves open, don't go to the door right away, do one more full "lap" to make sure that Solus is a good distance behind you, then go for the door.


If you two think the parts that you're stuck on now are bad...it only gets worse.

[Prince Planet]

Im still stuck at the same part..

Where you're running down that area, shutting off all the water valves while Solus chases you. I got to open the final door and he killed me mid-animation.

Umm..What the fuck do I do? Is it all luck?

Kidnemo is correct, but I noticed that there's a definite limit as to how much "room" you can put between yourself and Solus no matter how many extra laps you run. Believe me, I tried it more than a few times. Make sure your health is full (one of the benefits of dying, actually), and RUN LIKE HELL. You CANNOT SLOW DOWN! This means (1) smoothly ducking/jumping all of the laser mines -- shooting them takes too long; (2) having appropriate weapons readied and FULLY LOADED in advance -- run at the single guard while shooting him in the face -- take out the group of 3 guards with one shot from your rocket launcher. Solus still catches up to you here and there, but ignore him, dodge his energy shots and keep running. He'll still hit you at the very end (incredibly unnerving), but the one or two shots won't kill you if you've done all of the above.

Basically, the nonstop tension is why some people loved this game, and why a whole bunch of people hated it. I'd love to tell you the worst is over...but it's not. Really.

Edit: Ha! I now see Kidnemo's same comment about the worst not being over. You have to play the game some more to appreciate my amusement.

[animegirl]

I snagged this for $20 at Target, but haven't gotten into it yet because I always have trouble with the controls so it's near impossible for me to get anywhere. I keep looking at the ground when move around. (note: I still have trouble with Halo)

I was having a similar problem. You can set the camera in the options to auto-center and it makes it much easier to move around without having to adjust the camera all the time.

[Grave]

I thought it was funny at first... but not so funny now. This game's clunkiness makes the smallest tasks seemingly impossible. Not only that, I find it hard to execute the moves I'm looking for while moving around. Trying to fight two enemies at once should not be this hard. Trying to fight one enemy and avoiding hazards around you also shouldn't be quite so difficult. Nothing I can do will keep those two T'Lan guys from knocking me down and when that happens even once, it's over. If I ever get past here, I'm sure the sense of accomplishment will be great, but I'm nto sure if I even care that much. It's downright masochistic sometimes.

Maybe this game isn't for me. Do things eventually get significantly easier, or am I going to have to bounce the difficulty level down to easy to actually have fun?