Inverse Ninjas VS. The Public Domain

Not played that much of it because I've not had a lot of time on my hands but this is a great little budget game. The controls and artstyle are perfect and the concept is solid. There are a few things I wish where included like an Online Mode but still.

The new campaign that was added is a good foundation that I think will give the game alot of life for the future. It's brief and not very hard but the voice acting and well made Shmup gameplay is what makes the game for me and what makes me excited for the future of the campaign and the game overall :D I'm really hoping for some more enemy variety and locations in the cave, but what's there now in EP 1 is fun and charming dungeon crawler you can get through relatively fast. It has great potential to be something very special down the road! Hope it gets more attention with THAT Silksong tweet having like 5k likes now

this game has a lot of potential and with the campaign you get more bang for your buck if you asked me before they added the campaign i would not reccomend buying this

While it's basic at the moment, this is an excellent game that I want to see grow and change as time passes. However, I feel how it's being handled at the moment, it feels as if the developer isn't yet utilizing the full power of what a game based on using public domain characters could really do. As for the game itself, it's quite light on features at the moment, naturally. No proper single player mode (although the single player survival mode is still decent fun), only 5 characters and guns, poor balancing and gameplay variety, and the menus are kinda boring and uninspired. However I don't want to dwell on this too much as many of these issues are either things being worked on right now, or will likely be worked on in time, just something I thought I should point out. What I want to talk about more in this review is what I see as currently missed opportunities with what this game could be. To sum this up in one sentence: at the moment, it feels like you could replace the characters with any other characters, and the game would feel the exact same. It feels like a gimmick, but it could be so much more. Example: all of the weapons are juxtapositioned realistic weapons. Now while this is very funny and I would hate to see these weapons get removed (please god keep them in), I think it'd be great to throw in some weapons based on the public domain stories already being used. Maybe you could add a smoke gun with a damage-over-time effect to reference the hookah-smoking caterpillar from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, or if you wanna get REAL interpretive a weapon that just transforms your character into a giant gun or something, referencing Sun Wukong's ability to transform into weapons (among other things). And on that, why are all of the stages so generic? I mean they're fine layout-wise, but you're working with public domain characters for crying out loud, there's SO many places you could add with that power! The hundred-acre woods, the S.S. Willie, Mount Huaguo/Mount Fruits and Flowers, literally ANYWHERE in Wonderland, the possibilities end only when you want them to! Giant missed opportunity that I hope to see amended in the future. TL;DR, while it has plenty of flaws and is missing lots of content that could make this game truly fantastic, I have faith in this developer. They seem active enough on the forums, and I want to see where this game goes going forward. It earns my recommendation.

I love this game, genuinely one of my top steam games I own

Love to see a genuinely creative use of all these Public Domain Characters that's also just a really fun Shoot 'Em Up on top of that. There;s so much potential in this concept both with the roster and the gameplay, add Oswald and the game becomes a 10/10.

******* THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS ******* This review contains spoilers! First of all, i love the controller recommendation right before I started. I used an xbox wired controller to play on my PC. I appreciate being told to go grab it out of my dusty box. The controls are smooth, aiming is smooth. The screen shakes with some ammo, i love that. I love how the shotgun blows up on walls and does aoe, and the handgun goes through walls, or maybe that’s a bug, i like it though. I like how enemy projectiles can come from off screen. At first i was masking it happened, then i craved the challenge The settings don’t allow me to change the window to a full screen mode. How do I do that? When I go to play the game myself, i realize i must have 2 people. Then I attempt to defy my odds and i start pressing everything, and that’s when i discover the d pad is what changes my character from “not playing” to a character. Then I realize I can get past the character screen to level select with one player. The survival mode is cool for one player. It took me two rounds to experience certain the harpoon, uzi, webs, and black holes. I want to keep playing the survival mode. For now there are only a few waves. I’m typically killing 45/46 ninjas then it cuts to the end. I do love the character quips after each round. They are unique to the character you are playing! I would love to see ninjas in the practice area. Could I throw my harpoon/ other weapons once it has no more charges? In practice mode, id like to choose any in-game weapon to try at any time. Also in practice mode, it says there are 50 ninjas remaining, but there are no ninjas. New public domain characters New weapons: New stages: maybe a floating garden, high up in the sky? New items: Thanks for this! I want to play more!

If i'm being honest, I didn't know if i would like this game when i first downloaded it, but after playing Episode 1 today, i found that this game was thoroughly enjoyable. it had great voice acting, an interesting story, and cool interpretations of the characters they are interpreting. I genuinely enjoyed this game, and if you got $5 (at least until all episodes are out), i highly recommend you get this game.