thought maybe replaying this after a long while to experience nostalgia from when i played this years and years ago on the 360 would have been fun, ended up extremely bored and annoyed with many things.

the main mode, 'endurance' is just a very, very long slog of a trek in one direction to get to 5000 blocks traveled for the achievement. the only primary threat in this mode is the absurd amount of random enemy spawn zombies (and very rarely archer skeletons that almost never matter as long as you keep moving) that jump 80 feet in the air and move like crack addicts, and take away more than half of your healthbar if they get close enough. they are literally the *worst* part of the game in my opinion.

if you remain in their range for more than 3 seconds you're probably already dead and you get sent back to spawn. you can't outrun them even when abusing a bug that seems to let you move faster when moving diagonally and if you don't have a good enough gun to kill them (melees are borderline useless in almost all cases) they're impossible to deal with. your only saving grace is the fact that you have regenerating health after a delay, but you can't reduce any damage you take in any way.

there's also dragons, but when you get a decent enough gun like the laser assault rifle (which only takes a few hours at best, much longer at worst to get in one playthrough) they practically become jokes up until the undead dragon, which even then was less of a challenge than dealing with the random zombies nearly killing me quicker than the dragon would. any other enemy in the game, aliens, skeletons, archers, hell lords, are almost exactly like this. too slow to keep up, too weak to be a threat, and too brittle to stay around for long.

the other modes are pretty much only just slight changes to the main game, and mostly are pretty much aren't worth playing in comparison to the main mode or...literally anything else.

the sound design is also really painful at times, the amount of stock enemy sound effects that will fill your ears every few seconds gets grating after so long, and some of the items are just a pain on the ears to use (laser sword in particular makes the *loudest* idle sound that no other item has, and an equally as loud item usage sound that overlays onto it).

i can see why people are nostalgic for this but this game is just an actual chore to play and not anywhere near as fun as i remember. just grab minecraft and play with a modpack that has guns or whatever and it'd be far more enjoyable than this.

thought maybe replaying this after a long while to experience nostalgia from when i played this years and years ago on the 360 would have been fun, ended up extremely bored and annoyed with many things. the main mode, 'endurance' is just a very, very long slog of a trek in one direction to get to 5000 blocks traveled for the achievement. the only primary threat in this mode is the absurd amount of random enemy spawn zombies (and very rarely archer skeletons that almost never matter as long as you keep moving) that jump 80 feet in the air and move like crack addicts, and take away more than half of your healthbar if they get close enough. they are literally the *worst* part of the game in my opinion. if you remain in their range for more than 3 seconds you're probably already dead and you get sent back to spawn. you can't outrun them even when abusing a bug that seems to let you move faster when moving diagonally and if you don't have a good enough gun to kill them (melees are borderline useless in almost all cases) they're impossible to deal with. your only saving grace is the fact that you have regenerating health after a delay, but you can't reduce any damage you take in any way. there's also dragons, but when you get a decent enough gun like the laser assault rifle (which only takes a few hours at best, much longer at worst to get in one playthrough) they practically become jokes up until the undead dragon, which even then was less of a challenge than dealing with the random zombies nearly killing me quicker than the dragon would. any other enemy in the game, aliens, skeletons, archers, hell lords, are almost exactly like this. too slow to keep up, too weak to be a threat, and too brittle to stay around for long. the other modes are pretty much only just slight changes to the main game, and mostly are pretty much aren't worth playing in comparison to the main mode or...literally anything else. the sound design is also really painful at times, the amount of stock enemy sound effects that will fill your ears every few seconds gets grating after so long, and some of the items are just a pain on the ears to use (laser sword in particular makes the *loudest* idle sound that no other item has, and an equally as loud item usage sound that overlays onto it). i can see why people are nostalgic for this but this game is just an actual chore to play and not anywhere near as fun as i remember. just grab minecraft and play with a modpack that has guns or whatever and it'd be far more enjoyable than this.