Immortal Legacy: The Jade Cipher Reviews

55 / 100

Well, I hope you like cliffhanger endings! (I sure as hell don't!)

Came here for weird Chinese stuff and oh boy I was not disappointed. I was not prepared for Cookie Pie.

game has good grathics, good weapons array, good mixture of horror and action, and of course puzzles. I would have liked to be able to go back to the beginning at any stage, but overall the game is excellent.

...Well it’s… um… it was an… an experience? I’m happily confused, is that a proper description? The last couple of years have certainly introduced a slew of new and inspiring aesthetics from foreign markets, that we know for sure. Some have even grown from the heavy influence of popular games from the west. Now, most of these are battle-royales and uninspired mobile crap young kids use to vacate their parents bank accounts but every once in awhile we get a game like Immortal Legacy. Made with total and UTMOST sincerity and baffling design decisions, taking bits and bobs from many games over the last 8 years to create a bizarre amalgamation of scenarios in an attempt to make it big in the videogame industry. Something Immortal Legacy failed at, tremendously. But it made a fan out of me! The game begins in the backseat of a futuristic aircraft heading to a mysterious island, the main character, only dubbed TYRE, mulls over his tragic and equally mysterious and promptly forgotten-and never-addressed-again past before the metal coffin he was riding in is severed in two and plunges him straight into the world of action set-pieces and MacGuffin hunting! At least for the first half. It’s 2013’s Tomb Raider just without the disturbing amount of Lara Croft abuse porn! Yeah, this game is a master-class of picking up concepts and then throwing them away. Right off the bat we are rescued by a streamer-waifu who then gets kidnapped and we don’t see her much until the very last cutscene of the end of the game, which is the defining trait of everything following it. Our Waifu-Bait running into the fray of very rapey mercenaries and not acknowledging it? You got it! A climbing mechanic that is most certainly a leftover from the PS4 VR port? Absolutely! Sudden body-horror and survival horror elements ripped straight out of Resident Evil 7? Oh it’s the entire second half of the game! I’d hate it if it wasn’t just so charming and sincere! The shooting is A-okay, the weapon juggling is pretty liberal and the combat is by-the-numbers, the boss-fights suck yet the actual budget of the modeling is AAA despite having the length and tone of a mid-00’s eurojank shooter. This is Chinese-Jank, and I LOVE it! I haven’t felt this charmed by a mediocre game in awhile so I’m gonna stop with the hints of whats to come. It’s not a good port by any means and the astoundingly lackluster options and lack of key-bind changing is gonna be a major turn-off but it’s nothing too extreme. But I can’t help but recommend this game when it goes on sale! It’s no surprise that Immortal Legacy failed yet I wish it didn’t! With the burgeoning Chinese videogame market, I hope we get more experiences like this over mobile games and crappy battle-royales! Give her a go! You’ll be confused as all hell!

The game is pretty good, you can play in vr and also without it, for the price this is very much well worth it imo. I also have zero lag, fps, and or any issues with crashing.

Immortal Legacy: The Jade Cipher is like walking into your local Gamestop and seeing that single copy of an odd/new release on the console games shelf for 19.99. When you check out the box it is bizarre and strange so you immediately purchase it because you've got to check out such an oddity and it turns out to be a nice little gem. I enjoyed my 3+ hours of playtime with such a bizarre title. The only thing I still cannot wrap my head around is how colorful and attention to detail they provided to the main npcs but yet the environment/baddies are all bland in color and detail (except for the Dragons and final boss). If that much work had been done to those as well this title would have been quite amazing.

this game is ... weird , remember when you had that dream when everything around you is random and doesn't make any sense , well this game is exactly it. what is it exactly ? , its a first person shooter that has switch between different settings along the way , I actually recommend trying it if you are a fan of FPS games and especially survival horror , its a short experience but it was a enjoyable ride.