SHOE-IN

These boots are made for walking in NEURAL PARASITE

Before WASD and mouseaiming became the norm, there were all sorts of crazy control schemes for first-person games, and in that light Neural Parasite’s isn’t too bizarre. You move with your feet – by which I mean you click on a pair of on-screen feet, alternately, to make your character walk. So that’s left click to step forwards, or right click to step backwards, clicking the left shoe then the right, well, you get the idea. To turn around, you click the arrows at the edges of the screen – it’s as if keyboards were never invented. I’m struggling to imagine a worse control scheme for a firstperson shooter. Luckily, Neural Parasite isn’t an FPS. It’s a first-person survival horror, a genre where control awkwardness isn’t just expected, it’s almost celebrated. When…

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