Ghostrunner

I had a blast with this game. The smooth and satisftying movement, in addition to the theme of the game made if feel really good and couldn't stop until i finished it. I'm a sucker for roguelikes and this doesn't really have that replayability but the getting 1-shot mechanic makes it feel longer. would 10/10 recommend. It also didn't feel easy or frustratingly difficult and that's a plus for me.

This is not a parkour / free-running game. Your guy can wall run, but that is the only thing setting it apart from a standard platformer. Platforming sections are mostly rigidly linear and clearly signposted, you will not be looking for fast routes or anything like that. Controls are totally automated, you will not be mastering nuances of the controls to go faster. This is not Mirror's Edge. Combat is fun and challenging. Enemies, like you, die in one hit so it is about dodging incoming attacks and looking for an opening. When you pull it off, you absolutely do feel like a badass cyberninja. Varied enemy types are added as the game goes on, each needing to be dealt with in a different way. Different mixes of enemy types then provide different challenges. Timing is as important as your movement, for example there is one enemy type in particular that is most easily defeated by parrying when they attack, so consider whether defeating five enemies and then dying to the sixth because you clicked a fraction of a second too early or late is something that appeals to you. Considering the platforming isn't anything special there is too much of it. The controls are automated, so there isn't any depth to it, and if your guy decides to wallrun when you wanted to dodge, or climb a wall when you wanted to wallrun, you just die pointlessly. You can adjust in mid air with slo-mo, and you'll have to as the placement of some walls just seems off and you'll tend to fall off them if you don't correct mid air. Even though checkpoints are frequent, since the platforming is so linear the repetition wears thin. The final section in particular is a real slog. The game is short but there is depth in getting good and minimising your deaths (which the game keeps a tally of) so you could potentially put a lot of hours into it. Story is color-by-numbers cyberpunk, doesn't even try to be dramatic or shocking as they know that we know how these stories go. Get it on sale.

This is a game that revolves entirely on the player's reaction time and capability to maintain momentum, which demonstrates its clear and well defined objective, patent in its various aspects, from enemy placement to platforming. And the levels are always designed with several different recognizable paths to dispatch off the enemies more efficiently. This design offers enough freedom for the player to take various alternative approaches, taking into account each one's own preferences, but also the different powers offered throughout the campaign, that allow for further experimentation even within a same level segment. It is definitely a frustrating game at times because of its difficulty, but in equal terms rewarding when you can finally crack your best strategy to continue to the next area, as you further understand the patterns and timings of all the mechanics, all through a completely smooth and immersive first-person experience and wrapped around a stylized cyberpunk setting that gets richer the more you delve deeper into the story.

Very fun game overall. It is on the difficult side so be prepared but if you play on normal nothing is overly difficult. The games length is also perfect without it feeling like it drags on.

I really, really wanted to like this game. And I did, until I got to a part of level that I just can't beat, either my keyboard is bad or you need controller, or just I'm bad.