Voice acting and story line (so far) - poor Graphics and game play - fair Customisation and content - fair Camera Angle - UNFORGIVABLE - pleeeeeeeease just pull the camera back. Overall 1/5 - There is love and effort put into this game by the devs, but it really needs some tuning before we can overlook the flaws.
Nex Machina is a bullet hell game where you can't see the bullets or the enemies clearly because the background is apparently more important. - Not much content, you're just replaying the short campaign over and over - Enemies and bullets that blend right into the background IN A BULLET HELL GAME. Most of your deaths are going to be "what even killed me?" moments. - The game looks like it's rendering at 720p with 2 passes of FXAA being applied. There's literally no way to make it look not completely blurry. - Different difficulties have different amounts of continues, but they just don't work. When you lose your lives, the game takes away all of your upgrades, which makes dealing with anything beyond the very beginning of the game borderline impossible, and if you could still do it regardless, then you would not need the continue in the first place, so the entire system is pointless. - In coop, the game doesn't revive a dead player when their partner finishes a level/stage, maximising the time one of you spends not actually playing the game. - The dash is set to a trigger, but it only starts when you push it down more than halfway, making it feel delayed for no reason - you can fix this with Steam Input, but you shouldn't have to - nobody holds their triggers partially pressed when they're NOT trying to do something in the game. - When you reach the last boss, the game suddenly forgets it has a lives system and just doesn't let you respawn if you die because f♥♥k you for trying to learn a new boss's attacks.
I think I did myself a disfavour playing witcher 3 first, trying to play this with that in mind was a disaster. Witcher 3 felt more dynamic while this game felt way too slow. There isn't roach to help you travel, you have to find the right terrain to traverse (i.e you can't constantly jump terrains like you did in Witcher 3, for instance there's a quest known as "Place of Power" where the location is at an isolated hill, sadly since you can't climb nor go through bushes it makes the quest insanely difficult to complete. Eventually you end up youtubing some of these quests. Story is amazing though. TLDR: Lot of game mechanics are bad. You're probably better off watching a gameplay or all cutscenes combined on youtube
A bullet storm reminiscent of old arcade games designed to be hard to master but you could insert coins for another life. With this, you just press start though. It's an okay bullet hell shoot'em up. There's different ships to pick from, a variety of weapons, but I found the graphics to be kind of mushy and hard to read in game that requires a lot of precision, and the writing and voice acting is pretty rough and uninteresting, and it plays through the entire game. Fairly fun starting throughout playing. I do not recommend buying the game for 25€, if it goes on sale for maybe 5€ it might be worth it.
Beautiful masterpiece of a game that makes me really depressed of how good it is because I doubt we will get a game like this in a long time. It's story manages to make you cry even if you are a stone hearted oaf like me. The choices you make allow fascinating and unique interactions with npc's and change the surroundings around you constantly. One of the best games in history Play it and you won't regret it!
