Anomalous

This game's got the looks and the music, but the rest feels a bit undercooked. I still really appreciate the effort though! The cons: there's collisions blocking your walking where there shouldn't be, interactions for climbing that disappear when you get to close to the ledges, the level design isn't instinctive and has lots of dead ends.... those are all minor things that I can totally get past and still have fun with the game. They mostly make the game "not final", but whatever. That's fine. The two big problems are the guns and the enemies. The guns don't have any recoil, the machine gun is like a sniper weapon because there's no camera recoil, the shotgun shoots in the same pattern every shot and is REALLY lacking some "oomf" on the sound -- makes it feel like a wet fart. The weapons LOOK good, they don't feel as they should though. The enemies are... well, they're dumb. They seem to have really limited navmeshes even when they detect you that really makes them look like they're on really limited rails. It seems like their pathfinding may be broken (?), I'm not sure. It's weird. It makes them move around in really goofy ways and a lot of the time they won't even move towards you. Their shooting takes a while too, you have plenty of time to shoot at them before they shoot anything back. Sometimes enemies will spawn right into your face and immediately kill you, which feels a bit like a cheap shot. All of this is not exactly bad, but it does take a toll on the immersion. Will I still play this game? Yep. Byron Dunwoody did a really great job visually and the music really kicks up the game's vibes and I'm still enjoying the game because of this, despite everything listed above, and that's really something. Can't wait to see what Byron comes up with next! I'd love to see a bit more solid boomshoot from 'em!