Review: Bright Memory Infinite Is A Breathe of Fresh Air

Transformative isn’t a phrase that I’d sometimes use for FPS titles as of late. Though a hardcore fan of the style myself, I’m personally comfy with the standard fare of run, shoot, repeat. Whether you’re taking pictures enemy people, demons, and even robots, the mechanics are the identical; shoot something that strikes with the sport’s distinctive set of weapons. While this components may be very efficient, generally it’s good to strive a brand new topping on that FPS pizza. The actual refreshing new aspect wanted to spruce up gameplay comes immediately from FYQD Studio and PLAYISM’s newest title, Bright Memory: Infinite. With a unbelievable implementation of satisfying melee fight, this sport, whereas brief, had me hungry for extra.

Biggest Take-Aways

• This sport innovates on FPS gameplay mechanics
• It makes use of spectacular environmental visuals
• The sport is extremely brief, coming in at about an hour or so
• For $19.99, this can be a nice deal total
• Final rating: 8/10

Innovative FPS Gameplay That Doesn’t Only Rely On Guns

Don’t get me mistaken, Bright Memory: Infinite does have its justifiable share of weapons, comparable to an assault rifle, shotgun, pistol, and sniper rifle. And they’re all truly unbelievable to make use of with every having not solely a typical bullet that fires from them however particular ones as nicely. Each gun’s particular bullets are extraordinarily completely different but actually play an enormous function in fight, particularly in the case of taking up huge waves of enemies. Everything gun-wise feels very good and according to some other FPS title, you’d play proper now. Though it’s suggested to mess with the sensitivity settings because the defaults could make this sport’s fight really feel hokey if not tuned. It’s nothing main, and solely takes a second or so to right.

Though, the opposite facet to fight is the place the sport completely shines the brightest. Melee assaults in Bright Memory: Infinite are the explanation to purchase a ticket to the present. It’s easy, calculated, and insanely satisfying. And it’s not simply swinging round a sword both, you’ll be pulling off combos, parrying assaults, and using varied in-game powers to additional all of it. In addition to that, you possibly can even block enemy hearth together with your sword, Jedi Knight type.

The varied abilities that will also be unlocked in-game vary from varied upgrades to your weapons themselves like stronger particular bullets and so forth, to the power of your melee assaults. There are even some new melee transfer units to study as nicely utilizing combos that turn out to be upgradeable as you play the sport. All abilities are unlocked utilizing Relics that may be discovered inside each map within the sport. Luckily, these are literally fairly straightforward to seek out and by no means felt too hidden.

When it involves the enemies that you just’ll be preventing on this journey, they’re truly properly diverse and do a pleasant job of holding you in your toes. Bright Memory: Infinite is a reasonably fast-paced title, not simply in its fight however in simply how rapidly all the pieces ramps up within the sport. You’ll typically go toe-to-toe with military-type enemies with sniper rifles, shotguns, or ARs, however you additionally go up in opposition to very many historic Chinese warriors, every having its personal spin on fight. Not to say the bosses that pop up fairly incessantly within the sport as nicely. The bosses are actually the very best a part of confrontations as each is wholly distinct from one other and so they’re all extraordinarily memorable.

Kind Of A Tech Demo

Something that caught with me, for higher or worse about Bright Memory: Infinite was that it sort of felt like some sort of tech demo in a method. The environmental visuals and plenty of the lighting and total visible mechanics at play regarded actually good. They regarded even higher when contrasted in opposition to a number of the insanely weak character fashions. Any enemy that didn’t have an uncovered face regarded nice, however when you noticed anybody’s face, together with the primary character Sheila, you immediately get pulled out of the immersion.

This can seem like two separate video games at occasions as a result of Sheila is commonly pulled into the digicam for sure motion sequences. I personally don’t suppose these scenes make sense as nothing essential occurs and I can solely assume they exist for the easy motive that this sport comes with an overabundance of pointless, skimpy outfits for her. It feels extra like an opportunity for gamers to ogle her greater than anything, and highlights how dangerous a number of the character fashions are surely.

Another side that may make this sport really feel like a tech demo is a incontrovertible fact that it may be crushed in just a little greater than an hour. There are actually solely about 4 or so precise ranges and so they’re sort of padded with fluff by the use of a pointless stealth part and an on-rails driving sequence. Everything, apart from fight, is form of a one-off on this sport and there may be positively a sense that issues may’ve been stretched out a bit right here. I imply, the fight is amazingly enjoyable so it’s a thriller why the devs didn’t simply indulge themselves a bit extra within the sport’s size.

While I used to be actually hungry for extra gameplay as soon as the credit began rolling, I additionally needed to see extra story from this title. It’s a really attention-grabbing one with features paying homage to the phenomenon of the Bermuda Triangle, which immediately had me hooked from the start of the sport onward. It’s only a disgrace that we by no means actually get to know something about who Sheila is (apart from her wardrobe) or who the large dangerous man is or what his motivation was for placing issues into motion the way in which that he did. You’re left with many questions and nil solutions by the top.

An Addictive Bit-Sized Action Game

So whereas it will possibly really feel a bit uneven in some areas, for its MSRP of $19.99 that is truly a extremely good sport to play. The melee fight and total vibe make this an easy promote for anybody that’s searching for a brief FPS title that they will play for an hour, end, and are available again to each time that itch makes its method over them. Bright Memory: Infinite has a further tougher issue or two which may elongate playthroughs a bit and create a greater problem the following time via.

I’m extremely impressed by the visuals that the small workforce at FYQD was capable of pull off. This sport can roll with the very best of them on next-gen {hardware} when in comparison with titles likes Call of Duty or Battlefield. Though sure character fashions can look foolish, they fortunately don’t make an look typically, so it by no means absolutely ruins something.

This is a title that, regardless that I’ve completed it, I actually have an itch to leap again into once more due to how a lot enjoyable I had enjoying it. I might fortunately play this title once more with a smile on my face.