chrominance
Member
I'm playing through the original for the first time right now and the combat sections are terrible. The sequel is really worse?
They're terrible in very different ways. In the original, combat is often used as a roadblock, and you never feel particularly capable of holding your own. Even the act of picking up and firing a gun feels mechanically awkward, possibly intentionally so. A lot of times, combat feels like a delayed game over screen, especially later in the game.
In Catalyst, combat is improved in the sense that you're much more capable as a fighter, and guns are less of an issue in that you don't use them at all and it's not an automatic win button for enemies. But it's still used a lot as a roadblock, and the new system is clunky in its own peculiar way. It's still not particularly fun to engage with, either.