I'm not going to tell you about Axe Cop, you should already know and shame on you if you don't I own this game elsewhere and am very excited to see it released here. It is an excellent, full-featured classic famicom style jrpg and is very funny and well made.
If the controls don't get you, the conveyor belt bug on the 3rd mission will. You see, the game has a bug that can trigger in the 3rd mission due to the player stepping on conveyor belts during that mission. You will not know until the end of the mission FMVs play and the game then black screens. You must step on at least one conveyor to complete the mission. I endured the controls, which were awful even for the time. I endured the chunky movement, awkward jumping, dodging and shooting in a grid based rpg engine. I grew up on that weird 80s and 90s stuff. There's a good game hidden beneath all of that if you can get to it, but a gamebreaking bug like this requiring such a bizarre solution as "replaying the level avoiding all conveyors and hoping the last one doesn't trigger the bug" was one straw too many for me. I couldn't even bring myself to give 2 stars because, for my experience it is genuinely broken despite being fun at it's core.
The Surge 2 has the best combat in it's genre by a country mile, bar none. People are sleeping hard on these games.
