DEAD TRASH

I paid less than £2.00 for this, & for the price this isn't half bad. It's about 49% bad. There are a few little things about the game that irritated me early on; - The opening cut-scene shows you acquiring a gun, but you don't start with that gun. - Some of the trash bags can be broken for loot & some can't. You quickly figure out which particular sprite you are supposed to be attacking, but I still think it feels jank. It might be better just to remove the trash-bags that can't be broken. - If you turn left rather than right at the start then the first level is so difficult that it might actually be impossible, because it's the difference between having to play most of the first level either with a gun or without one. - Given the looter/scavenger theme of the game it felt weird that I couldn't pick up the weapons that the enemies attacked me with. Unlike Doom, or other games where the enemies clearly have the weapons grafted onto their bodies, the enemies in this game clearly have weapons that you should be able to pick up & use, & the theme & setting of the game make that stand out. - If you have glass windows in a game they need to be breakable. If you can't manage that, it's probably better not to have them; it just feels bad. - The player hand sprites look way too clean (& soft) for the character & setting. I was almost starting to have fun, but once I accumulated an arsenal of weapons I noticed that you can't cancel the reload animation by swapping weapons, & the reload animations are quite slow. This would result in situations were I would start reloading the shotgun, have an enemy get the jump on me, & I wasn't even able to swap to a different weapon to quickly deal with them. I also found myself being forced to re-walk the maze-like level for quite a long way due to falling off a ledge, & this seemed to be by design; this was not a fun experience.