We absolutely loved The Mummy Demastered when it came out last year, hailing it as another fantastic title in WayForward’s impressive portfolio and a lovely addition to the eShop’s lineup. That 9/10 score was well deserved, but WayForward evidently wasn’t satisfied with resting on its laurels, as it recently put out a new update that changes a surprising amount of the game for the better.
This update doesn’t add anything major, but it makes several tweaks and quality of life changes that will make the game that much more enjoyable. It’s already gone live and is available for free, so be sure to download it when you get a chance. The changes it makes are as follows:
- Initial load time has been drastically reduced.
- HD Rumble added to Nintendo Switch version
- Revamped the death mechanic:
- Health Packs regained from Undead Agents default to full
- Weapons Regained from Undead Agents have more ammo
- Undead Agents health more fairly balanced, based on number of Health Packs they are holding
- Health drops are more fairly balanced
- Spawn Frequency of Bats, Ravens, and Spiders re-balanced
- HP of all bosses has been re-balanced
- Game performance greatly increased
What do you think? Were you waiting for an update like this? Will this tempt you into picking the game up? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
[source facebook.com]
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And what about the glitch that froze the final boss? After playing through this game in gradual disappointment, the lifeless final boss was the last nail in the coffin for me. I don’t think I will replay this, but it’s nice that it’s getting updated.
Love this game. Gonna live it even more now. As long as the bosses were nerfed and that's not an increase
Awesome.
I've learned not to buy a lot of Switch games on day one as they get patches and improvements added all the time.
I tryed getting the patch after reading about it on twitter but no new patch still 1.0.1.
@HeroOfCybertron The source didn't say. It should be up by now though!
Kudos to WayForward for the extra polish
Omg cool. I’ve literally just started this game. It’s great so far
Disappointing game all around, but I guess it's nice to see it receive some form of post-release support.
This might just be the push I need to download this soon... It seems that all the issues most reviewers had with the game have been cleaned up!
I put in over 10 hrs on this game on my Switch, but only because the glitch in my first run-through prevented me from progressing. Sounds like they made this game better. I would’ve liked this updated version, but having played the game nearly twice, i’m not interested in going in a third time.
I put in over 10 hrs on this game on my Switch, but only because the glitch in my first run-through prevented me from progressing. Sounds like they made this game better. I would’ve liked this updated version, but having played the game nearly twice, i’m not interested in going in a third time.
I’m glad they’ve fixed the health mechanic after dieing. It was such a time sink grinding for health after retrieving your health packs.
What’s up with all these games getting great updates (we had Doom with motion controls yesterday)? What’s next, something to fix the coin grind at the end of Odyssey? A map screen for Yooka Laylee? More lives in Vs Super Mario Bros?
I forgot to add that while this game wasn’t a big winner for me, the visuals and music were excellent.
It would had been nice if you could tell us what version update this is instead of just vaguely saying that it was a new update. Most of us that doesn't check for these things still think that v1.0.1 is the new update when it clearly wasn't.
Maybe I can pass the first boss now haha
stopped playing as i was killed just outside a boss room and grinding back to the point to fight him was a pain in the arse, add the fact that my joycon was bust (kept pushing up, so in this game I kept firing up without in input prompt, got savaged many times in skyrim too...grrr, fixed now tho and pro controller bought). This has just bumped back up to the top of the list of 'games I need to beat before I buy any more... if only I could stop playing rocket league and splatoon and arms and on and on and on....
Oh thank the heavens I personally found it way to much grind and constant battle against small annoying enemies. I will pick it up again now, love the visuals and music so wanna play it so bad was actually waiting for an update like this thanks for the heads up!
How annoying. I Literally just finished this game! Hahahah
I don't get why some people don't like this game. It's such a well done Metroidvania! The respawns of some enemies were a bit annoying, that's true (which has been apparently patched), and it wasn't too original, ok, but hey, it's sooo enjoyable! I really loved it, and I played it with some friends, and we all thought the same (we are Metroid fans).
Really good game overall. If you like games like Metroid, I'd totally recommend you to give it a chance.
Updates. Meh.
Good that they seem to make it less hard. Overrated if you asked me. But as with any review, to each his own opinion.
Enjoyed the game but final boss was gratingly difficult. Still not beaten it but gave up due to having to backtrack for at minimum 20min to regain all health and ammo.
Seriously, how could the creators seen this during design and said “Yep! This’ll never get old!”???
Sounds nice! Great game! Updating now!
I love it when they report updates, lets me know what to look out for.
Bought this as soon as it came out then got distracted by other games and haven't played it since. I'll download this update later and it might be a enough for me to go back and play it for an hour or so!
Fantastic. Appreciate that games get updates like this. Will have another look at it.
I certainly enjoyed the game quite a bit, my first run of it was deathless too, but I haven't returned to it since as Super Mario Odyssey launched straight after I beat it.
When I was playing it, there were certain parts that had some serious performance issues though, and the game crashed on me at one point, so I hope that's resolved in particular.
It's time to buy it!
@the_beaver I didn’t dislike it, but the glitches and technical flaws soured my enthusiasm. Plus, the final boss completely froze on me and I merely blasted at it until it died. Guess my experience was atypical, but, what can I do! Oh well!
This game was insanely unfair. I'm not going to try it again even if they rebalanced it. It was just not fun at all and I don't think I can get past the terrible first impression I had with it. It was so unfair that it is probably still too hard to be enjoyable for me and it was not worth so much effort.
@LuckyLand it wasnt unfair at all, lol. i didnt even die once
So glad they rebalanced the death mechanic. It was the only blemish on this otherwise awesome game. I was abusing the multiple game save slots so I could avoid grinding back my dead body for health.
Man! I still need to get this game. Have forgotten about it.
Yes
Totally going to buy this. I wish I did around Christmas when it was on sale though :/
i bought the game and is good, but there is a section with some gears that i can't get past , i have 3 of myself waiting for me and everytime they kill me, im think im done with this game
Cool. This is still on my wishlist awaiting a discount, so this is good.
Brought back this game from obliv...ehm my backlog yesterday, death mechanic was really brutal indeed... Got killed twice far from a checkpoint in a really bad spot... took me forever to kill the zombies and reach back to my old guns. Not nice, glad they made some changes.
I am really enjoying this game now that the balance is fairer. The health drops and reduced bats are much much better.
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