Oh god. Richter Belmont. I remember when he went by the name of Kyo Kusanagi, and all the Wolfenstein mods he pumped out faster than Nine Inch Nails pumps out albums*. Resident Evil, The Rise Of Jason (and the next subsequent 69 versions of it), and all the Spear Of Dreams series.
The maps were ripped off, the coding sloppily done, and the sprites taken from other games without permission. It was terrible.
As Richter Belmont, he has released a number of games under the heading of the "Lost World Saga". The games seem a lot better. Much higher quality, though still not the best.
The modder has released his first effort on the Wolf4SDL engine; a test version of The Lost World Part 8.
The game is two levels which sees you walking through a forest with relative ease; walk a fair bit, shoot the one enemy, then repeat. Collect souls which seem to make up sets, but which I never really worked out the purpose of (mainly because I finished the level by accident before collecting them all >_>).
Also it seems Richter has BJ talking to himself. First step on the way to madness if you ask me.
Well, next to fighting weird gun wielding monsters who aren't nearly as graphically refined as the weapons that have been borrowed for the game.
So I wander through a snowy maze and there are monsters everywher- WHY IS THERE AN OFFICER WANDERING AROUND WITH THE MONSTERS?!?
This is the only human character in the two level demo. What the? Well, he WAS the only human character in there...I didn't have the chance to take a screen shot before killing him. It was all so sudden. Just, "BAM LOOK AT ME IM A BAD GUY WHO ISN'T A MONS-" *BLAM*.
I really, truly, wished these two levels were a bit more entertaining. They were very un-thrilling and didn't give me anything to look forward to, except for maybe a manual so I can find out what the hell the game is meant to be about.
As a final note, I laughed when I was able to start playing Episode 2 of the original Wolfenstein. Richter, it helps to disable the other episodes when making a demo :P
*Three albums in 6 months. Wow.
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