Redeemer: Enhanced Edition

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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Looks good and feels incredibly satisfying. All weapons are fun, and each has upgrades that change how it works. No settings are missing.
The plot is like if you put John Wick and Bruce Lee into the same person - The protagonist was so angry he tried to be a monk, almost succeeded, but people with guns came and fucked it up, now he's murdering the fuck out of anyone he sees.
As big a fan of twinsticks, I can't think of one other I'd recommend before this game. Even by itself, this game may deserve being in my top 10 action games. Easy recommend to most people, it will probably grab you in the first few minutes.

Redeemer is an oldschool brawler that despite its short campaign almost overstays its welcome.
The mechanics are fun and the visuals add to it, however, in the later stages there are some weird movement 'puzzles' and difficulty doesn't come through tougher enemies but more enemies in smaller spaces. The final boss is particularly disappointing. Still I got a few hours of good entertainment out of the game and would've probably even considered making a second run through the campaign if not for the weaker later stages. I guess this would be a neutral rating if it were possible on Steam.
I'd say get it on >30% sale if you want to smash some heads to a wall without too much thinking going on.

A nice and violent way to pass the time, without any thinking involved. Redeemer is fun to play for a level or two before it gets a little tedious, but if you're in the mood for bashing, thrashing, pummeling, blasting, and crushing, it's a good way to go. It's characterized by a bunch of simple mechanics and designs that make for a decent overall experience. It's got satisfying and simple combat, a good variety of melee and ranged weapons to temporarily use until they break or run out of ammo, and the levels are also simple, with a few interesting ways to interact with the environments. You can level up your skills as you progress through the main story, adding slight improvements to your abilities in combat. The story is nothing memorable, but stories aren't usually the point of games, so it's not worth talking about.
After beating the game, the arenas can be a good last effort to top off that violent streak.

If you are looking for a simple game you can beat in a single gaming session with a friend on the couch, this is perfect for this.
I finished the game in less than 4 hours so it is quite short.
Not long enough to get bored of it so it was fun until the very end.

Very satisfying.

Brutally fun, great Co-op game