What a disappointment. This game nails the cyberpunk look, and its of decent length, and the shooting works fine. Those are about the only positives. First off, the game is trying to be a boomer shooter and Deus Ex and fails at both. The levels are these giant spread out levels where you need to talk to random people and interact with random consoles, but it doesn't have apartments you can sneak into and interacting with reading emails and stuff does nothing. All it does it make the levels more annoying to go around. You basically will spend most of the game wandering around levels confused where to go. This is because theres no quest log, mission markers, or any way to know what you're doing. The map is the worst I've ever seen in a game, as it will randomly only have parts of the level and the markers on it are useless. Navigating the map while in map mode is also impossible. You basically will need to interact with a console, find a random button to press or shoot, or collect something in some random spot, or randomly from killing someone. One level you need to find frozen canisters, something so many people are lost on its pinned in the main game community page. Another you need to kill random people then use their hand on specific terminals. Its just random and frustrating, so be prepared to find video walkthroughs bc game too obscure for much info on it. Theres also some random computer world you enter into to solve puzzles, which breaks all the pacing and feels pointless, and sometimes you won't know thats what you need to do or not do.
Outside of the poor mission design, for a boomer shooter it also fails. You get 3 total guns throughout the entire game, a shotgun, a pistol, and a machine gun. 2 of them have alt fire modes that shoot rockets or grenades. There is technically a 4th gun that uses the same energy as your sword attack and you only get it for part of 1-2 levels so its so minimal. Because of the limited arsenal its boring as you'll be using the same guns on the same guys. Enemy variety sucks, theres robots that shoot lasers, robots with swords, flying robots with plasma blasts, and big robots that shoot fire or grenades. Thats the extent of the enemies, so enjoy fighting them endlessly. Levels have 3-4 THOUSAND guys so enjoy that. Many times you get stuck on enemies when trying to move around which is annoying when theres so many. You constantly run out of ammo and killing guys doesn't give enough.
The first mech boss fight is horribly designed, with a regular instant kill attack you can only dodge but you have a single dodge on low cooldown and he attacks you with it multiple times in a row in a multi-phase fight. There's upgrades as well but theyre boring as its just more health, more ammo, and a few random insignificant things like "daze guys when you dash into them". Theres like 2 powers, poison and ice, because again game is trying to be lazy deus ex. But the poison you have to get SUPER close so you'll be damaged when using it. Then randomly 1 level they just take away all your upgrades you've been slowly building all game, but you still keep double dash because...........logic? The sword is cool to use especially deflecting bullets but it gets old fast and is only useful on the basic enemies. The story is also Meh.
And thats about it. You'll wander around levels lost with an awful map and no direction trying to pixel hunt, firing the same 3 guns, fighting way too many of the same guys, getting boring upgrades. 5/10.
