Wow, there’s a series I haven’t thought about in like a decade. I recall really enjoying that game way back when, though.

I remember the giant boss from the second level. That thing was positively humongous.

The original Painkiller was the first overwhelmingly positive review that Yahtzee Crowshaw ever made. That review caused a years old game, at that point, to spike almost 3000% in sales for the next month. It contained gems of sentence construction such as: [Painkiller] (sic) “has a gun in it that shoots shurikens and lightning. I’m not making that up. It shoots shurikens and lightning. This gun could only be cooler if it had tits and was on fire!”

I remember the guns, and the painkiller. Shooting enemies with mini telephone poles never got boring

Hopefully they don’t use UE5 slop

That sounds so cool! I actually have all their Steam games, but when I tried a couple of them, I realized all I was doing was run backwards, which I don’t really enjoy.

Can you recommend one of the old Painkiller games that might be balanced differently or have level structure where this does not occur as often?

Same for Ziggurat, which I wish I could enjoy.

You made me read the link. I don’t think these games are actually related, but I dunno at this point.