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Of course, by this point, Lo Wang has already spent hours making the experience as unbearable as possible. Shadow Warrior 3 – Deluxe Edition Content By the end of the game, every combat encounter is a bloated slog of bullet sponge enemies that drags on for ten minutes or more. Shadow Warrior 3 doesn’t have any better ideas for ramping up difficulty beyond throwing out ever higher numbers of its beefy demons, and the addition of two clunky boss fights doesn’t help. Each fight started testing my patience, even with the variety provided by platforming sequences that break up the march of combat arenas. The single finisher animation for each enemy type means the gruesome novelty is short-lived it’s not long before pushing the execution button feels like slamming the brakes. Character and weapon upgrades eventually make HP and ammo drops a reliable constant, flattening the rhythm of in-combat decision-making. As the hours progress, the momentum crumbles.