That is not dead which can eternal shoot Nazis in corridors
Perhaps taking titular inspiration from Robert Eggars, KVLT has been kvltivated in a kvlture of grim first-person shooters filled with Nazis and cosmic horrors. In other words, PC gaming. It’s a beautiful day in 1945, and you are a horrible occultist. Time to start shooting things like it’s Wolfenstein all over again.
It begins, as so many things do, in some tunnels. You’re presented with some backstory involving crystals, and read some notes the bad guys have helpfully left laying around that refer to mysterious creatures and disappearing comrades. Then you press forward looking for something to shoot.
When you eventually meet them, the Nazis are kind of hilarious. Not only are they keen on sighting down their rifles and standing near red explosive barrels while on guard duty in a dark mine, but when you get a group of them up close they run at you with synchronised animations. The game is currently in an early playable state, and there are bound to be some problems –having the run/walk switch and the torch bound to the same (remappable) button is particularly egregious –but these don’t get in the way of the game’s atmosphere, which has a heavy Wolfensteinfeel –specifically the 2009 reboot of the game, as the textures in KVLTcan look low-res even with all graphics settings on Epic.
The mixture of World War II and occultism remains a potent one, and the mines are littered with the evidence of an experiment gone awry. Not only have enemy soldiers been turned into zombies, but weird floating things with too many legs save your progress as you pass them. The place is a complete health and safety nightmare, with sudden drops to instant death –and to more mysterious glowing things –around every corner.
THE MIXTURE OF WORLD WAR II AND OCCULTISM REMAINS A POTENT ONE
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A SHOT IN THE DARK
Lazar, the player character, is initially armed with a strange sort of pistol that looks like a Luger with some interesting attachments, and despite ignor
