Posted on: April 4, 2025
Munkee79
Verified ownerGames: 530 Reviews: 31
Janky and monumentally frustrating.
The first thing I noticed playing this is that the dash function feels schizophrenic; while grounded it gives you a short boost in whatever direction you're moving, in the air it gives you bullet time and an optional sideways juke, then boosts you in the direction you're aiming regardless of movement. It feels like two separate abilities that should never have been merged, and if you're ever trying to use it while close to the ground you'd best hope you aren't slightly off the ground if you meant to be grounded or vice versa, or you'll almost certainly die instantly. The next thing I noticed is the brutality and inconsistency of the combat and parkour; sometimes it feels like I drop dead apropos of absolutely nothing, occasionally shots seem to phase right through me but far more often than not I get to deal with somehow being cut down by a single bullet mid-dash even while traveling perfectly perpendicular to the projectile. Sometimes my idiot character will attempt to latch onto a ledge instead of wallrunning, sometimes walljumping just spits me off at an unrecoverable downwards angle for no apparent reason, some parts are generously checkpointed while others will funnel me through a 2-5-minute marathon of one-hit KO BS until I manage to execute the entirety of it flawlessly some 30 attempts later. There were also odd occasions of me clipping through geometry to my death, but the jank was overall tolerable... until I got to the mandatory tutorialization of the first unlockable ability, the Blink. You need to use it to cut through clusters of 3 placeholder enemies at a time to continue the game, but every time I do so it resets me and respawns the targets, telling me to try again. I'm softlocked. I am well versed in and completed Meat Boy, Mirror's Edge, AND Shadow Warrior, but gameplay-wise this feels like one of the worse potential outcomes of melding all three. Which is a shame because the aesthetic and premise were both really grabbing me.
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