Played on steam deck with a controller and external monitor. How was it? First half: 10/10 impeccable. Some of the most interesting level design, early enemy AI, and excellent sound design in gaming. Just -fantastic-. Music is really good too. Last third of the game 6/10... starts to fall off pretty hard around surface tension where you have to coax NPC's across the map to certain doors and there's not anywhere near enough guidance for it. Xen? I can't even. Some of the worst level design and design choices I've played. Its just... genuinely frustrating and not fun or rewarding to play. I had to look up written guides more than once, shit was so obscure, and then actual YouTube videos to figure out what the hell is was missing. First time in my life over hard to do that. Xen should have been cut or there should be an alternate ending option without it... Aside from that though, very glad I played this. I have played up to around the half way point multiple times in the past, first full clear though. What's next on the list of late 90's early 2000's genre defining games i should play?

I was an impressionable teenager when it came out. I was one of the only Asian American 'goths' at my high school in this movie had an Asian American actor in goth get-up as the lead so it was really important to me. The first time I watched it in the theater I thought it was the best movie I've ever seen up to that point (14 years old). 30 years later I don't think it's the best movie I've ever seen, but it ranks really high up there. But I don't know if that's just the nostalgia talking or the movie is actually really good. I think all the actors did a really good job, especially Brandon Lee and Michael Wincott. So what do you guys think of the movie if you can remove the nostalgia?