FREE GAMES REVIEWS
COOL TITLES FOR NO CASH by Tom Sykes
Playing hooky with fantasy free-running game GRIMHOOK
There’s nothing grim about first-person action adventure Grimhook: a delightful game about movement, and unleashing mayhem on a horde of cute little robots. Alas, it does take a while to get going – probably too long, considering its brief run time – but, when your move set is fully unlocked and you’re free to leap and fling your hook with abandon, this is a game that makes you feel kind of amazing.
Grimhook feels a lot like Titanfall 2, a game that was surely a massive inspiration. The protagonist has the same ‘earnest everyman’ quality as Cooper from TF2, and while you don’t buddy up with a mech, you have a similar relationship with your magical sidekick, who lives in a jewel and bestows your movement powers.
This is a free indie game with fully voiced main characters, and with a movement system almost as polished as its big-budget contemporaries. The voice acting is solid and the pacing is almost at Titanfall 2 quality. The rub is that there’s only one level.
Waking up beside a shipwreck with only a big hook for company, you have to leap around a system of caves, find your way out, and le rn what’s happened to the world. After discovering that talking jewel, you find yourself endowed with special powers: you can double jump, spring up from the ground, wall-run and eventually fire out a grappling hook. In its not-quite-an-hour runtime, Grimhook manages to give its move set a good workout, while introducing further wrinkles just as repetition could begin.
They’re alot of fun to fight, thanks to the varied combat
GRIM DAWN
The biggest wrinkle is combat, which I wasn’t expecting to make an appearance, as the focus seemed to be purely on the jumping. You can use your hook to
