The game is overall pretty cool: aesthetically, it's close to a masterpiece. Graphics and sound are both amazing, and the narrator's voice is as cool as ever, June's voice will never cease to amaze me. Yet, gameplay-wise, there are a lot of little errors that make the game frustrating and frankly unamusing: - PERFORMANCES: It's the main problem I got with this game: what the hell is going on with the optimization ? I read somewhere it was due to the engine the devs used, but here it's frankly ridiculous. Forget the required specs, get a pro-gamer CPU cause this game is about to melt your pc. Can't feaking play for 10 seconds without having a massive drop in FPS, which, as you can imagine, is a disaster when you're playing a nervous shooter like this game. I just can't enjoy a game that laggy. It's a strange universe in which I can play Payday 2 without a lag, butI need to step up my hardware to play a pixel-art 2d platformer. If the optimization is that wrecked, why not give the player more options to tweak the graphics ? Like less SFX, or getting rid of those foreground animations. - That's basically criminal: Guys, you know putting art in the foreground that hides your character is a crime, why did you do that ? - What's that dash anyway ? The Dash feature, which is the game's main way of going around, is clusterfucked, dodging bullets when it feels like it and leaving you to die when it doesn't. - Poor variety: This game suffers the comparison with its elders: Enter The Gungeon, The Binding of Isaac... The amount of weapons and passives are incredible in these games, not in this one. It gets boring after the 25th run where you see the same 5 skills cycling over and over. - Let me breathe: The amount of time required to pick ups consumables is ridiculous, especially in latter levels. You'd have to melee your ennemies to get them, but don't count on that: the game's basically a bullet hell past the 3rd level.
You know, the Anechoic Lazaret quest (one of the first in the game) is still bugged after 3 years of tech support, so I truly hope the devs will rot in the fiery hell that is their community's disdain. Thank god I didn't back this when it kickstarted, I'd rather cut a ball than give a penny to lazy developers. Writers on the other hand can truly be praised. That's no Disco Elysium, but it has decent writing, excellent setting and overall incredible feeling when you're trying to immerse. But... You know. InXile Entertainment. Don't expect much of them from now on.
