in my opinion the best movement shooter ever made, massive depth to movement and combat. the soundtrack is amazing, and it really compliments the fast paced gameplay. artstyle is really nice and most of the levels look amazing even with the low poly graphics. you can even change your graphics to be so shit it's practically unplayable with the psx settings.
this game really shines in it's movement and gunplay. you have a slam, a slide, a walljump, a dash on ground and air, and a ground jump. these movement options can be used on their own as normal, or combined in different ways to gain crazy speed and mobility. in terms of weapons, at the time of review there are five guns, a pistol, shotgun, machine gun, railcannon, and rocket launcher. each of these have variations which add different abilities to each weapon. this includes a pistol variant that allows you to throw coins in the air and shoot them for an instant ricoshet into an enemies weak point, a railcannon variant that shoots a red explosion laser beam, and a rocket launcher variant that can freeze your rockets in midair. weapons can be used together in interesting ways, such as shooting multiple midair coins with a charged pistol shot to deal huge damage or shooting a launched shotgun grenade with the explosive railcannon to detonate a massive nuke that decimates everything around you. some of these weapons can also be used in conjunction with movement to give even more speed, like the explosive railcannon + grenade nuke can launch you massive distances under the right circumstances.
you have one arm to begin with, called the "feedbacker" which can be used to punch enemies and also parry attacks and projectiles. this can also be used to punch coins out of the air, which can hit enemies and stack damage for some very quick kills if you can consistently punch the same coin. it can also be used to punch your own shells out of your shotgun, which propells them much faster and causes them to explode on impact. you can collect two more arms as of this review, the "knuckleblaster", which has a much more powerful yet slower punch, and a shockwave that activates when holding down punch that can deflect projectiles and damage/launch smaller enemies. the last arm is a grapple hook that can pull yourself towards bigger enemies and reel smaller enemies in towards you. these all flow together to create some of the best fps gameplay i've ever seen. the game has a style meter, which encourages swapping and combining weapons, as well as moving fast and not getting hit. the style meter affects your end of level score, as well as reducing the amount of hard damage you take based off of how high your style is. the way you regain health is through absorbing blood from enemies, and that incentivizes up close combat as well. this all comes together to create one of the most fluid combat systems in any fps game i've ever played.
the end of level score system relies on three things. style, time, and kills. you can get between a d and an s in each of these catagories, based off of specific par numbers for every level. if you get an s rank in every catagory without dying once throughout the level, you can obtain a p rank for that level. if you get all p ranks for a specific act, you can unlock a "p door" which leads to a secret boss/level that is vastly harder than anything else in the game. these are where the game shines in terms of difficulty, and are some of my favorite levels in the game.
there are four difficulties at the time of this review, with two easy difficulties, one normal, and one hard. i did my playthrough on violent difficulty, (hard) and found it to not be too bad, so if you are decent at fps games than go with that, normal difficulty seemed pretty easy.
ive fully completed every level, every secret mission, and most secrets, as well as p ranking every level on violent difficulty except for the second p level, which ive p ranked on standard (normal). this game is in early access atm, which means that theres much more content being added, but it is easily worth the twenty bucks if you like movement shooters.
amazing game, ive sunk over 200 hours in it by now and damn is it fun
this game really shines in it's movement and gunplay. you have a slam, a slide, a walljump, a dash on ground and air, and a ground jump. these movement options can be used on their own as normal, or combined in different ways to gain crazy speed and mobility. in terms of weapons, at the time of review there are five guns, a pistol, shotgun, machine gun, railcannon, and rocket launcher. each of these have variations which add different abilities to each weapon. this includes a pistol variant that allows you to throw coins in the air and shoot them for an instant ricoshet into an enemies weak point, a railcannon variant that shoots a red explosion laser beam, and a rocket launcher variant that can freeze your rockets in midair. weapons can be used together in interesting ways, such as shooting multiple midair coins with a charged pistol shot to deal huge damage or shooting a launched shotgun grenade with the explosive railcannon to detonate a massive nuke that decimates everything around you. some of these weapons can also be used in conjunction with movement to give even more speed, like the explosive railcannon + grenade nuke can launch you massive distances under the right circumstances.
you have one arm to begin with, called the "feedbacker" which can be used to punch enemies and also parry attacks and projectiles. this can also be used to punch coins out of the air, which can hit enemies and stack damage for some very quick kills if you can consistently punch the same coin. it can also be used to punch your own shells out of your shotgun, which propells them much faster and causes them to explode on impact. you can collect two more arms as of this review, the "knuckleblaster", which has a much more powerful yet slower punch, and a shockwave that activates when holding down punch that can deflect projectiles and damage/launch smaller enemies. the last arm is a grapple hook that can pull yourself towards bigger enemies and reel smaller enemies in towards you. these all flow together to create some of the best fps gameplay i've ever seen. the game has a style meter, which encourages swapping and combining weapons, as well as moving fast and not getting hit. the style meter affects your end of level score, as well as reducing the amount of hard damage you take based off of how high your style is. the way you regain health is through absorbing blood from enemies, and that incentivizes up close combat as well. this all comes together to create one of the most fluid combat systems in any fps game i've ever played.
the end of level score system relies on three things. style, time, and kills. you can get between a d and an s in each of these catagories, based off of specific par numbers for every level. if you get an s rank in every catagory without dying once throughout the level, you can obtain a p rank for that level. if you get all p ranks for a specific act, you can unlock a "p door" which leads to a secret boss/level that is vastly harder than anything else in the game. these are where the game shines in terms of difficulty, and are some of my favorite levels in the game.
there are four difficulties at the time of this review, with two easy difficulties, one normal, and one hard. i did my playthrough on violent difficulty, (hard) and found it to not be too bad, so if you are decent at fps games than go with that, normal difficulty seemed pretty easy.
ive fully completed every level, every secret mission, and most secrets, as well as p ranking every level on violent difficulty except for the second p level, which ive p ranked on standard (normal). this game is in early access atm, which means that theres much more content being added, but it is easily worth the twenty bucks if you like movement shooters.
amazing game, ive sunk over 200 hours in it by now and damn is it fun