'Ghostrunner is a kind of 'easy to learn, hard to master' game that is dazzling to watch in speedruns. Project_Hel, despite being largely similar, does have its own particular joys.' 📝 grace_machine
Project_Hel is a remix of Ghostrunner’s central concerns. Rather than moving up through the stratified Dharma tower, Hel descends. Rather than killing “Keys” , she murders members of an underground resistance movement. Rather than discovering a new identity, like the titular ghostrunner , she barely asserts selfhood before re-assimilation into the tower’s systems. It’s still the same song, but rearranged, made new enough to be novel.
In practical terms, this result is largely the same as the base game. You still play a deadly cyber ninja, slicing enemies with a katana, wall-running and leaping over endless pits. Obnoxiously samey synths continue to pulse in your ears. It remains loud, fast, and frenetic. Mostly, this works to its advantage. That swiftness makes you both fragile and powerful. Winning comes through speed and wit.
All this basically means that it is frightfully easy to chain powerful attacks. If rage is maxed out, the game encourages you to be reckless, an impossibility in the base game. It rocks to hack a handful of enemies to pieces with one or two attacks. While Project_Hel still requires a methodical quickness, its emphasis on slaughter offers something of a different edge.Unfortunately, its aesthetic continuation means that Project_Hel inherits Ghostrunner’s problems.
Project_Hel is a prequel and it tries to weight its otherwise slight narrative with dramatic irony. However, Ghostrunner’s basic beats are familiar to anyone who has been playing games since Bioshock. It’s hard for any of these callbacks to have power when what they reference is so fluffy and predictable. In the story’s scant thoughtful moments, it briefly considers what it might mean to have a body that is not yours. Again, though, this is pretty typical cyberpunk fare.
Ultimately, if you were thrilled by Ghostrunner’s speed, Project_Hel provides more, with just enough difference to have some novelty. If, like me, you found its aesthetic more tiresome than its joys were worth, this won’t change your mind. Still, for a particular kind of speedrunning brain, Project_Hel has some magic.
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