EmP's Kholat review

Great review. This is like the old days of EmP. Concise and precise, with a touch of sarcasm and a dash of depressed dissulisionment when your expectations are dropped like an egg onto concrete.

I was unaware the old days of EmP where considered concise and precise. I always thought it was ramble-y and mean-spirited, so I'll consider that a win! Thanks.

Another great review I'm arriving at late by way of your year in review. The screenshots and your initial impressions almost had me, until this: "The odd unexplainable death wouldn’t sting so much, but Kholat employs an extraordinarily poor checkpoint system that means death can sometimes make obsolete more than an hour’s progress."

Poor pacing/checkpoint spacing is a game killer for me, if ever there was one.

Man, those checkpoints... I once lost well over an hour because I was trying to chase down a light in the distance but was distracted by other things. As such, I didn't go for landmarks and campsites so when a monster randomly switched from casually indifferent to homicidal amd murderous on a whim and cut me down, I found myself on more or less the other side of the map. There was much swearing.

It felt very familiar to the checkpoint system in Downpour. I hated that, too.