It's a good little retro-shooter. I spent a day eating up, and haven't touched it since. Honestly it's a flash in the pan kinda game; because there a few quibbles. They nailed a good aesthetic, and the fully customized graphics options are cute, but clearly a novelty. The unlocks are well paced out and satisfying, but if you are like me and want to 100% unlocks, you'll be secret hunting for a bit. Later levels have no-return points that prevent getting them. I cheated and Youtube'd the few I missed on the second playthrough. I was hoping for wise-cracks like the trailer, but other than the Doom-esque text dumps at the end of episodes, the protagonist is mute. Poor showing. No Duke or Caleb here, except as easter eggs. The weapon upgrades are great though, they all feel like they can be useful, but some are way better than others, like the crossbow upgrades into a three-shot, or a balistae that pins enemies to walls painkiller-style. I'll let you guess which one is better and more fun to use. Shrapnel grenades are hella deadly, but I usually ate a decent chunk of the splash damage. Some mechanics feel last minute? I played with most of my points in guns. Spells are less useful for non-melee builds, and even on hard, I always swimming in extra lives. The hardest difficulty is ironman, so they are moot. I don't get it. Not to snub the game, it was fun, grungy boomer shooter with a lot of modern bells and whistles, it wasn't too long and didn't outlive it's welcome. With two play-throughs under my belt, i got 15hrs outta this, which isn't too shabby.
I've spent 60+ hours on this game on steam, (no noticeable difference when compared to the GoG copy) I've played this after a this war of mine binge. I heartily recommend that game over this one. there isn't much depth to the gameplay, and every playthough will be the same. There can be fun in the repetition, and tweaking efficiency, but only if you gain fun from that sort of thing; otherwise, you will likely be disappointed.
