I dont really care for this game. I was excited to get home from work to play it. Now that I've played it for about an hour and half or two. I was not happy with it. Glad it's free though.
It's some little things that adds up that I dont like.
- The delayed jump, i've taken too much damage because when I tried to time my jumps, I did not take into account of the delay. Why would they add that in a twitch based shooter like that??? It feels like they added that in there for artificial difficulty, but its more of an annoyance than anything. Theres like three bullets coming at me, If my character jumped when I pressed the button like I thought he'd do, he wouldn't have taken any damage, but he jumped too late and got hit.
- Cant shoot diagonally, this is pretty much the game killer for me. shooting up, down, left and right is killing the enjoyment for me. It's like my mind cant get over that because I constantly keep trying to shoot things thats coming at me from an angle, like those stupid robots flying towards you closing the distance and I would try to shoot them, but I keep forgetting I cant shoot in that direction. I have to put myself in harms way to line up a shot. I could shoot diagonally in hard corps and metal slug, so my brain is accustomed to it and when I try to shot at an angle and cant do it, my brain, its like
..WTF??? and gets hella confused.
- Respawning enemies, since I cant shoot in an angle, I sometimes have to run back and jump to take the shot, because the enemy has closed the distance since they are coming at me from an angle but when I run back, the enemies I JUST KILLED about two seconds ago is there, and I run into them, and ake some damage, so now I got to kill the re-spawned enemies and plus the enemy I was trying to kill before. This is just another annoyance, but i wouldnt mind it if I could aim diagonally so I can at least take them out from a distance on a higher or lower platform and wouldnt have to back track and move so much.
- Gear of war reload mechanic, for some reason, that reload mechanic, just doesnt feel right in this game. I see it adds a level of difficulty, but I just dont like when an enemy is like one second away from hitting me because I cant aim diagonally and i finally line up the shot and try to take the shot, only to start the reload mechanic and in the rush of spamming the shooting trigger trying to kill this fool, I dont pay attention to the bar, and dont hit the reload button in time and i get hit and jam the gun and cant shoot for a period
.man got dammit.
I get so frustrated because with the way the aiming is, it encourages lots of movement and character placement to line up shots since you cant shoot diagonally, but the respawning enemies is a direct violation to that as if you move a bit too much off the screen, now you got more enemies to deal with.
So yea, I pretty much suck at this game, but its strange because i was really good at contra and hard corps and I own and beaten all the metal slugs on xbox 360 on the harder settings so I thought this game would be more like those games as I loved those games. But I see there's a lot of differences in this game that I dont like.
Man, im just glad this game was free, because i'd been mad if I paid for it. Aint mad or bitching or anything, I just didnt want to post "didnt like the game" and kept it moving without at least telling you why I didnt like it. So I aint gon sweat it. Just gon delete it and move a long.
