HAIIIII GAMER GURLSSS!!!
Today we’ve going to be a little bit move seviuous compaved to the usual silliness I partake in, ov not I don’t vealy cave.

I’ve seen the first ride on a monorail countless times, it’s probably a scene from a game I’ve seen the most amount of time. Not because I completed this game many times, today was actually the first time in 12 years I’ve actually completed the game from beginning to the end.

Now. I would love to write a structured review where I give my thoughts on every aspect of this 26 year old game. But I feel like it is somewhat pointless, there are thousands of reviews that do that, plus it would take me some time to form thoughts on stuff, so I would just say stuff that I remembered.

It is not hard, for a game from 1998 it is actually great. Compare it to anything from that time period and tell me that it didn't age better than the others. Most tough and difficult parts of this game are when you're supposed to think outside the box, for me the toughest moment was when in chapter 13: "Forget About Freeman!" I think, could be the one before. When you deal with a tank and enter a two story building with Calhoun inside, he opens up armory and where the hell am I supposed to go? (there is a window you can climb out of, to parkour into the ladder that has exploded) This moment was tough because compared to games that were released in recent years, stuff you CAN interact with looks just like stuff you CAN'T interact with, it is quite confusing from time to time, it is actually one of the reasons why I couldn't finish this game for so many years. I know lots of people had issues with chapter 8: "On A Rail" for the same reason, they thought that shooting the direction thingy would do nothing, so they'd just don't shoot the direction thingy. There are countless times you can get stuck simply because you'd think that doing something won't work, so you don't even try, just like in real life.

Weapons are weapons I suppose. There are interesting stuff like how after you stop meeting the military, you will have little to no ammo for certain weapons. Some of them are creative and fun, but I wouldn't say that they are special or anything.

It is hard to say anything about Half Life, it is hard to say anything *new* about Half Life, it really is one of the most important games in the industry, without it gaming landscape would've looked completely different, and just because of that, I feel like everyone should try to play this game and try to complete it, it deserves it.

If Doom is the original Super Mario Bros then Half-Life is Super Mario 64.

However at the end of the day influence doesn't matter if a game isn't good or not, so is Half-Life a good game, does it still hold up over 25 years later? I'm not a big FPS guy so maybe I'm not the right person to ask this question, but my short time with Half-Life was some of the most fun I've ever had playing an FPS even if I do think it shows it's age in some parts and is rough at times especially with enemy balancing and some cryptic old game design in puzzles (Have no idea how people finished this game in 98 without guides, had to look up where to go and what to do multiple times on YouTube lmao). Even 25 years later regardless of how impactful and influential it is, it would still be a masterclass in environmental storytelling, level design, gunplay and sheer creativity as far as I'm concerned. There will never be another game quite like Half-Life.