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Muito bom, mas muito curto. Espere uma promoção para comprar.

As somebody who's been playing 2D platformers since the 1980s, I can say that although Guns, Gore and Cannoli doesn't bring anything new to the table, it does the job of entertaining you for a couple of hours.

The beautifully hand-drawn graphics are, without question, what save this game from being another derivative 2D-platformer with zombies tacked on. The animations are fluid, varied and beautiful. The backgrounds are detailed and there's a good variety of enemies, each with their own death animations, which is something the developers could easily have overlooked. The mechanics are easy and solid, the collision detection is spot-on and overall, the gameplay is very sound.

On the other hand, the plot is nothing to write home about and the 7 or so hours that took me to finish the game felt about right.

Overall, Guns, Gore and Cannoli is a fun game.

Bom jogo, bem divertido com puzzles intrigantes sem ser impossíveis. Gráficos adequados ao estilo e jogabilidade, sendo que o jogo é bem leve (rodando perfeito num core2duo de 2009 sem placa de vídeo dedicada). Só acho que o preço cheio que estão pedindo é muito alto em comparação com outras plataformas (em plataformas mobile o jogo custa uma fração de dólar), sendo assim peguem numa promoção, se possível.

Heretic was released in a time when Doom clones were thick on the ground and PC gaming was a bleak wasteland reserved for the few bold souls that dared to brave it... and what a time that was! I might wax nostalgic, but I miss the endless days of my tender youth spent in front of a CRT monitor, trying to harness the power of DOS shell commands while racking my brains to configure IRQs, DMAs and tame those elusive 640k of conventional memory just so I could play something.

PCs aren't that clunky anymore (for the most part!) and a lot has changed in the gaming industry in the past 20 years or so, but I still find Heretic a much more engaging foray into first-person-shooting than Doom. Don't get me wrong, Doom was, has been and will always be a genre-defining game that paved the way for the many CoDs and BFs of today, but Heretic has always been better at immersing players in a much more fantastical world and journey with its D&D-esque aesthetics and references, while pitting you against otherwordly creatures such as manticores, armored skeletons and warlocks, to name a few. Creatures that can easily be disposed of with your arsenal of fantasy-inspired weaponry that range from extremely powerful sceptres and crossbows to spells that can multiply your power manifold or turn the most-frigthening enemy into a puny chicken that can swiftly be ripped to shreds.

Heretic is definitely worth buying not only for its place in history, but also for its extremely enjoyable mechanics and overall tone. Those belonging to a younger generation with a penchant for retro-gaming should overlook its flaws and appreciate it for what it represents in the pantheon of 1990s PC gaming.