Excellent level design and gunplay
This rejuvenated my love of shooters. While there are many "boomer shooters" on the indie market, I struggle to enjoy them at their blistering and un-ending speed. This game lets you burst with speed, but is tempered with stopping and slowing down.
Crouching and leaning encourage you to use cover, and enemies will not always rush you, allowing you to hang back a bit and blast from range. The aim-down-sights button also encourages slowing down to pick away enemies. At the same time, you can sprint very fast, slide while sprinting, and out maneuver all the enemies if you want to. You're encouraged to be careful when you want to but also burst through doors and empty a room when you're up for it. The controls feel excellent on mouse and keyboard, I cannot praise this enough.
The game also gives you several weapons (not too many, which I often don't like), each with some sort of secondary shot. You also get timed grenades.
I like this more than Dusk, Ion Fury, Amid Evil, and Prodeus. I enjoy the gunplay and level design in this more than all of those. I prefer the pacing in this over any of those. And I love the moody music and visuals in this most. I prefer this game over Doom frankly.
Only thing that might put you off is the anime character artstyle, and the gratuitous gore. But these don't hurt it for me.
Excellent level design, excellent controls and pacing. Unique art style and colour palette. Atmospheric music. This is a strong recommend.
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