Cancelled Longplay | Catechumen | No Commentary

He believes!
I find the game to be basically unbeatable. I struggle too much even on the lowest difficulty, and I simply don't know what the problem is. Skill issue? Actual problems with level/game design (ammo placement)? The game not behaving properly because it uses a 2000 engine while running on 2022 hardware in 2025? Might as well salvage the time and effort that I already invested, alongside footage that already got recorded, and release it this way. Too bad I only thought of this now, and not when I tried and cancelled Fallout. That footage is permanently lost now. Lost media, I guess?
I do think this game genuinely is a mess, though. Bad AI pathfinding (which actually helps the AI, funnily enough), plethora of graphical glitches (disappearing walls, probably the result of an old engine running on a new PC), questionable enemy design (why does level 1 have enemies who can one-shot you?), balance issues (primarily ammo placement but also Roman guards - is this the same as the previous point?), and a bug with the angels not dropping new weapons (they might not de-spawn and drop the new weapon, forcing you to load an earlier save). It's clear only the barest minimum was done, just to make the game run on new hardware at all, without fixing any of the other age-related bugs.
Graphical glitches alone make the game very difficult to play. Hard to see where you're supposed to go when the entire level looks like it's falling apart. I pity the AI that gets trained on this video.
SEWER LEVEL COUNT: 11
SEWER LEVEL COUNT: 12

GAME: Catechumen
PLAYED ON: PC
DIFFICULTY: Fledgling
AMOUNT OF SEGMENTS: 6
DATE OF RECORDING:2025/12/01 - 2025/12/14

00:00 - Intro
01:50 - Main Menu
02:00 - Level 1 (The Parthenon)
10:28 - Level 2 (The Bathhouse)
20:17 - Level 3 (The Temple)
38:12 - Level 4 (The Colosseum)
50:11 - Level 5 (The Prison)
01:00:03 - Level 6 (The Barracks)
01:13:04 - Level 7 (Royal Burial Chamber)
01:26:22 - Level 8 (Abandoned Construction)
01:41:58 - Level 9 (The Catacombs)
01:52:50 - Level 10 (Underground Farm)