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Heretic + Hexen isn't Nightdive's most essential remaster, but it is perhaps its most fascinating
A look at Raven Software's loving restoration of Heretic + Hexen, which captures the enduring weirdness and magic of mid-90s game development with aplomb.
The Ethereal Crossbow's green-arrow scattershot is a fun fantasy equivalent to Doom's shotgun, while the Hellstaff's crimson death-ray cleverly reuses the plasma guns's lock-on chain fire. | Image credit: Bethesda Softworks / Eurogamer In a post Dark Souls world, there's greater tolerance for this kind of gnomic design, and it wouldn't surprise me if Hexen's navigational puzzles were reevaluated in the wake of this remaster. As for Hexen's new episode, the aptly named Vestiges of Glory, it aims to validate the idea behind its hub-based levels, using the same crisscrossing, puzzle-based design, but smoothing out some of the more obscure navigational challenges of the original.
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