This game was gifted to me by a friend and I had my doubts at first. We were looking for a multiplayer shoot-em-up, if you will, and this is what he landed on. We downloaded it and I had to go to bed. The next morning, I get up to find out that he's completed much more of the game than he meant to so I have to catch up. I boot up the game, do the tutorial area, and accidentally wind up in the hardest section of the game, kicking butt, I might add. You can go anywhere, do any Scan (which are the missions that give you perks, hats, or guns), anywhere in the world, no matter your progression.
I very quickly found out that this game is for the kind of person that wants to skate around each level, blowing dozens of people up. It's for the kind of person that wants to beat a Scan by ramming people off of the level into the abyss and laughing maniacally. It's for the kind of person that wants to use the perk that restores your jumps after each kill and veritably fly during each Scan. It's for the kind of person that wants to explore every single nook and cranny finding Agility Orbs and Hats and potentially doing what I did and flying off into space at 31,000 km/h seeing if I could reach the Sun. Or even just the kind of person that wants all of that in a responsive, fast-paced, expansive shooting game; and have to ability to do so with a friend or 3.
There's so much I could go into and I've not even played it for a tremendous amount of time but honestly, I feel like it's about quality, not quantity. I will give a small description, though: Echopoint Nova is kind of like mixing a bit of Breathe of the Wild story with Haste and Skate Story movement then mixing that with Doom and upgrading guns. It has 3 mini-bosses that give you Air, Freeze, and Fire powers that help you jump, freeze the ground to skate faster, and propel you forwards, respectively. You have to get all of the scans, all of the powers, and it would be helpful to get all of the agility orbs and hats as they increase your ability to grapple and equip perks, in order to stop the Big Bad from using these powers to take over the world. Even after you beat the Big Bad, there's bonus Scans on each old Scan for more perks; and that's before you even get to New Game+, Rogue Mode, or the DLC.
Very rarely do I write reviews but if there's anybody with any doubts like I had, get the game, seriously, you won't regret it.
