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Platforming and puzzle games – genres as old as gaming itself. If The Delusions of Von Sottendorff and His Square Mind has achieved anything, it has shown how well these two genres can complement one another in this pleasant package. The only problem is: it doesn’t do anything else. There are better platformers and better puzzle games on the market, and this title seems apathetically content with simply having these two gameplay styles in the same game, without actually challenging one another. Indeed, these are two old genres, and so The Delusions of Von Sottendorff and His Square Mind has no excuse for the lukewarm way it has combined the two – I mean, we were pulling levers and jumping on enemies heads back in the 90’s.

Overall, Rock Zombie relies more on what’s popular these days and nostalgia over solid gameplay and reverence for the source material that it is based off of. Much like the zombies that are littered in the 20 levels of the game, everything is just cold and lifeless. The characters, plot, and gameplay are largely uninspired and generic. All this along with the technical issues and lack of any co-op gameplay makes Rock Zombie a difficult game to recommend to even the most diehard zombie or beat ‘em up fan.

There were certain issues throughout such as slight drops in frame rate which left the game a little sluggish in patches while some of the dialogue felt a little regurgitated. As a whole though If future episodes are anything like the first one, this could easily become a classic game for an already booming genre. Bathed in blood and suspense, Blues And Bullets leads the Episodic genre down a dark and exciting path.