Instead, the game locks you in a cage at the end of the level and has you shoot at the ship’s fuel tank while the ship sits almost completely still and occasionally shoots back. There’s this bit where one of the bosses is chasing you down in a flying hover vehicle, and you’ve got to race across the level on a skateboard, and THAT feels more like a boss fight suited for this game. The game really doesn’t take advantage of the movement or the split-aiming for its boss fights. While the levels, for the most part, about moving fast and maneuvering behind enemies, the boss fights just lock you in a room with a single enemy and have the two of you duke it out with almost zero cover, platforms, or anything really. The antithesis of the core gameplay is easily the boss fights. There are multiple sections where you can kick a frying pan into the air, slow time, and blast it with your pistols so that the bullets ricochet into enemies lying in wait and it’s so stupid and amazing and I love it. Running through the levels is an absolute joy, especially with some of the “Rule of Cool” stuff the game throws in, just because it feels like it. Why bother running anywhere near enemies when you can just safely shoot them from the other side of some very large rooms without ever getting shot at? When your core gameplay is all about running and dodging and doing cool flips and stuff, hunkering down behind a box with a sniper rifle, carefully lining up a shot isn’t nearly as engaging.Īt its core, however, the game shines. In fact, I think they take away from the faced paced gameplay. You see, that split-aim gimmick only works when you can dual wield, but the game eventually gives you a large machine gun (with a grenade launcher), a shotgun, and a sniper rifle- none of which can be dual wielded. In fact, I think there are too many weapons. Now that’s not to say that the game is lacking in weapon variety. It feels so good when you pull off moments like that, and the game is constantly throwing opportunities like it at you throughout the game. In combination, you end up with these really satisfying moments where you fall from above a group of enemies in slow motion while accurately blasting two enemies at opposite ends of the room. By right-clicking the mouse button while aiming dual weapons, such as dual pistols or dual SMGs, you can lock one gun to point at something while you turn to aim at something else with the other. The unique mechanic that the game brings to the table is the split-aiming. It has its own energy bar that’s refilled when you shoot things. For instance, there’s a bullet time mechanic so that you can line up your shot and react to the chaos around you without getting overwhelmed.
The core gameplay is designed to encourage fast paced shooting, movement, and “Rule of Cool” moments. If I had to pick a genre, it would be Action-Plat former. The simplest way to describe the core gameplay loop would be to say that the game’s objective is to run and jump towards the right and shoot everything that’s in your way. However, in the past week, I actually did find a game that grabbed me- a game that lies right in the center of the ven diagram of being the kind of game I would like, being graphically inferior enough to run on my system, and being short and simple enough to jump into around my cramped schedule. No, siree, there was no chance of getting properly into something like “Cyberpunk: 2077”- not that my potato of a machine could even run it. So I haven’t really had time to be absorbed in any new games, and trying to get hooked into anything long term was out of the question when I only have a couple hours a week for such things. Now it’s all, ugh, “taking responsibility” and “studying” so that “I don’t become a hobo dreaming of the glory days playing at the online casino“, and blah blah blah. Gone are the days of rushing home to play games with friends for six hours straight. What with a part time job that I’ve been lucky enough to still have, despite everything, on top of zoom classes and Uni stuff, I’ve found myself shorter on time than one might expect. Despite perpetual lockdowns, I’ve actually been kept quite busy.
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