Dead Season Review (QuickSaveTV)
I beat the game 3 times, and I would recommend it overall.
My favorite thing about this game is just the amount of polish: no bugs, no crashes - the game is streamlined to the extreme and is well-polished. It looks great for an indie game, and the way they present the story is very enticing. It uses a black-and-white comic reel that is intermittent with the missions that you play. The game presentation is really exciting.
The game has three issues: it's way too short, the hardest difficulty is very stupid, and in between missions, some of the items you have struggled to acquire magically disappear to simulate the passage of time between levels. This is a horrendous design choice because it becomes a band-aid solution to the problem of the game's brevity.
We don't have a lot of levels, but hey, let's make items disappear randomly so that the players have to constantly scavenge, LUL. The worst example of this was when my group lost 6(!) Axes and a Chainsaw in one of the levels. What the actual hell?!
If you choose to play the game on Medium or Easy difficulty, you're going to have a great time, but keep in mind, realistically, you will have to beat it three times if you want to get all of the achievements and actually enjoy the game in the process:
First time: Medium difficulty; explore the game to the fullest.
Second time: Easy run without unlocking any of the character perks (this is fairly tough, but not impossible)
Third time: Hard run while using everything you know about the game, making everything you find count.
Overall, it's a good short game for one or two evenings, but it's moderately annoying if you choose to unlock all of the achievements.
I still recommend it, though, as I am a sucker for Zombie and Tactics games. Besides, it's this company's first game, and as far as the first games go, this one is fantastic. I can't wait to see more stuff from these guys.