Enemy: Tempest Of Violence Is Pure Distilled Batshittery (And I Love It)

I've never owned an Amiga, but I am obsessed with Enemy: Tempest Of Violence, a Swiss-developed Amiga game released in 1997. Buckle up, this is about to be a ride. My partner and I have a ritual in which we watch Twitch on the weekends before bed. My partner is a cantankerous old man (even though he's only 34) and has no desire to watch any popular streamers or popular games. He'll only watch streamers on the Retro channel—the Twitch channel devoted to games that are as old as we are. There we found Macaw45, an Australian streamer with a penchant for playing the most obscure of obscure games. One weekend, we watched Macaw45 playing an ancient-looking game in which a lone security guard armed with only a simple pistol mowed down an army of aliens while directing his human allies to safety. That game was Enemy: Tempest Of Violence, and every weekend for the last month my partner and I have religiously watched Macaw45 make his way through this game and it was fucking riveting.