I think the core game here is really fun, as is a lot of its wackier ideas. Throwing you against an army of newt men for exactly one level and then never mentioning it again is just fantastic, as are the splashes of fantastical whimsy contrasted against the harsh industrial setting. But, unfortunately, I think those moments are too few and far between. Most of the game is just going through areas that all look and feel the same. I think I could genuinely remember only a handful of individual levels since they all look alike and ask you to do roughly the same thing. The weapons all felt pretty uninspired as well, with the only real interesting ones (the crossbow and especially the Lightning Gun) feeling strangely underutilized. Again, the core game here is a lot of fun, but its levels, weapons, and encounters lack a level of variety that would have pushed it from good to great.

Reviewed on May 24, 2023


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