Redeemer: Enhanced Edition

We just love those stories where the protagonist is a monk with a dark past that, eventually, gets back at him. Don't we? The person in hiding is called Vasily this time. He is found, his friends are killed and he swears revenge on his former friend and the evil corporation that ordered the assault on the monastery. Moving on.
At first Redeemer looks like a pretty intense but standard brawler game. Vasily hits and kicks fast, does combos and by rolling he can move around quickly. Then you notice the many objects you can pick up for use as well as the items in your environment to use for executions. Then later on enemies with guns will appear. After each kill their dropped weaponry will remain at your disposal.
Later stages introduce new, more diverse locations, new environmental objects / interactables for even more brutal fatalities, bigger guns and even bigger melee weapons. As you look around you can find tablets and scrolls to level up Vasily which happens anyway as you make progress. The game is actually pretty bloody due to the executions that can even follow-up a series of combos you regularly do. Stealth is also an option if enemies don't look. Boss fights stand out a little as they require some patience on your end after you've just gotten used to a fast-paced, one-man-army massacre.
Honestly, beside one or two boss battles I don't have anything against Redeemer. It looks decent (I particularly liked the close-up shots when Vasily is about to perform an execution), its action is non-stop and while some later stages (of the 15 available) give you the same factory-laboratory-prison look combat will remain satisfying and visceral. Arena is an added feature that is not worth mentioning and while your glossary in the pause menu gets extended as you make progress with the story Vasily's background remains secondary. Instead, enjoy his rage against his foes!

Redeemer is a isometric, top-down beat 'em up that is super fun.. and hard. You play a marine turned monk Vasily. The game employs multiple hand to hand combat and fatality like animations which you can employ on your enemies in some gory and glorious details using various weapons, skills, and PvE animations (saws, chairs, fire extinguishers, etc). The Enhanced Edition supports co-op which I have as yet to try but I imagine would be quite fun based on my current experience with solo play. The graphics are very well done, the voice okay acting serviceable, and little details such as the fatality animations are often zoomed up close and are hilarious. You often have to employ some steal and strategy in various levels rather then attempt to take out all enemies in order to survive. The boss's are difficult, as are some enemies such as the brute (oh my, hate this guy) that caused me to run and search for any and all weapons for help in defeating them. All in all I recommend the game.

YANOGA REVIEW
GRAPHICS - ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
On Ultra the Game looks good. Somethings the Animations are a bit clunky and overall the Look is bloody and brutal. 3 Themed Worlds with different Styles. Find it good but nothing really blew my mind or was really memerable.
MUSIC - ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
Nothing what was annoying but my playthrough is like 15 Minutes ago and I can't even remember how the music sounded like. Very generic but ok.
STORY - ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
The only reason the Story exist is to have a reason to slaughter 120382 People. Really uninspired.
GAMEPLAY - ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
Kratos on Cocaine is slaughtering everybody in Diablo View with Batman Series Style Combat. Very satisfying Gameplay which kept me playing. In the 2 World its get kind of annoying but overall there are nice Enemys, Weapons and Kill-Possibilitys.
WORTH BUYING - ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
If you are a Fan of Top-Down-Shooter then you can give this one a look. But only buy it if you're in the Mood for 3-4 Hours brainless killing with no more depth. 1-2 Times I was a blink away from closing the Game. But overall it runs fine and if you're looking for a game like this or you can get it for 1-2€ like me - Go Ahead!
LENGTH : Mainstory 3 1/2 Hours

BUGS : None

PRICE : Got it for 2€

DIFFICULTY : Medium-Hard

FINAL:
71 / 100
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What is Redeemer about?
Well....if I discuss the game, rather than the plot, then this will be a longer conversation.
But not by much.
You play as some bad-ass military dude who, given the opportunity by the army to be turned into a cyborg or a mutant, or a cyborg mutant, instead said "hmmm....no thanks" and decided to turn his back on violence. Trying to live a peaceful life, he ends up joining a monastery.
His past won't let him be though, and his former unit, now turned into cyborgs and mutants, or cyborg mutants, come looking for him. As they kill the monks he has lived with, will he be able to resist the urge to commit violence, or will he get bloody revenge?
Well....it wouldn't be much of a game if it was the former option.
To be honest....it's a load of passably written, yet ultimately stupid, guff. But then I'm sure you've figured that out for yourselves by now.....
The real meat and potatoes here is a gratuitously violent mix of top-down shooter, modest brawler, and the mild capacity for stealth kills in some places.
Redeemer is all about choice.
Generally that choice is whether you intend to punch someones face in, or kick their face in, or shoot their face off, or smash their head into a wall / pillar / buzz-saw / electrical pylon, or pick up a chair / fire extinguisher / cyborgs head that you've ripped off and pulverise the enemy with it.
There's lots to do, as long as you don't mind the fact it's relentlessly doing the same thing, and that thing is just killing left, right and centre.
Various enemy types are introduced, and along with a pretty tough difficulty level, and varied weapons, it adds up to a tricky challenge.
Where you're burning through guns you've picked up, and melee weapons, and the floor becomes littered with corpses and broken or depleted items.
Where you've picked up and thrown everything bar the kitchen sink, and just survived by the skin of your teeth.
Have you ever seen The Raid 2? There's a bit where a guy called Mad Dog is in a fight in a disco, and the guy just goes nuts ripping up and lobbing anything he can gets his hands on. Or the scene in Old Boy where there's this long fight in a corridor that gets so desperate in such a close-quarters environment.
This game is like that.
It is dumb when it comes to the story, but enjoyable enough due to this brutal flow in the action. Anything else is just a mild diversion, such as short areas of environmental hazards, or fairly basic boss battles.
There's a reasonable return for your money at around 6 hours, and tbh it's not the kind of game that really benefits from being much longer.
7 out of 10 I suppose, in that it's a lot of fun and isn't expensive, but is a one note experience, and has a "meh" plot that I can take or leave.
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Seems to have a catastrophic glitch where the screen backwards putting the character out of view and makes the game unplayable on the very fist level of the game. The glitch appears to happen continuously and repeatable after restart happening during the initial tutorial of the game. Seems like a good game when the camera shows the position of the character.
Edit - After light research, I discovered that the "glitch" was happening because I set the coop option to "on" and the game is programmed to add another character for Player 2. This made a shared camera so when I attempted to advance Player 2 character was not moving so the camera would hold a maximum distance. After playing the entire game (once the coop option was set to "off"), I was able to relax peacefully so I could edit my review with the correct thought in mind. Overall, great game, and challenging enough on normal difficulty. Would definitely recommend it for fans of beat'em up games (must have). I'm sure coop is fun as well.

game good

Great game. Has a fluid combat, unique level-and enemy-design. All the weapons also feel different. The only part where the game falls short is the length, the unskippable cut-scenes and the story.