MOTORSLICE

GOOD GAME, BEAUTIFUL WAIFU! ❤️💎

TL;DR Parrying everything is awesome, parkour is satisfying and smooth, explore giant world with huge structures, fight colossal machines, main character is cute. Motorslice is definitely one of the most unique games I've ever played. I was hooked from start to finish and always craved the next chapter. The game really reminds me of the manga Blame! by Tsutomu Nihei, where both the protagonist from Blame! and P seem to be searching for something special in a huge megastructure (or megastructures). I'm a big fan of Blame!, which only boosted my enjoyment and appreciation of Motorslice and its story. The game's combat is incredibly satisfying. You can parry just about ANYTHING that tries to kill you, including traps on walls and floors. If you fall into a floor shredder, you can parry it and then jump off before it turns on again! (Thank you, game tips, for telling me I could parry traps!) All enemies can be parried, and of course, the bosses too. I'm pretty sure parrying is entirely optional (except for the final boss, I think?); if it's not your style or it's too hard, you can simply roll or run in another direction to evade attacks. But I mean, why would you ever dodge a boss's attack when you could gain that awesome aura and feeling from parrying it instead? When it comes to the smaller enemy types, there are several ways you can combo off each one and destroy them. You can usually just kill them with a single basic attack, but for flair, I think it's better to get a bit creative and use things like wall running, jumping, and sliding to strike them. You also have the option to lock on to enemies, which, as a keyboard and mouse player, I barely used. I guess this option was intended with console users in mind. I will say, however, that the bosses sometimes felt a little too quick to defeat, especially the earlier ones before many of the environmental hazards are introduced. There just aren't that many things to kill you once you're on or close enough to the boss after evading or parrying their initial attack. I ended up disabling boss checkpoints in the settings so I would have to defeat them in one life. Even with no checkpoints, I still quickly killed most of the bosses in what felt like a minute. The only boss that put up a real challenge for me was the Chapter 7 boss. I died many times, but it still felt great to go against a powerful enemy. I eventually beat him, and even though it took me a while, I enjoyed it a lot. Regardless, fighting all the bosses and seeing their design was a cool experience. My favorite boss visually was probably the Chapter 3 boss because of his drill gun. I loved the game's parkour system and would spend a lot of extra time in areas just playing around, trick-shotting enemies, and jumping on them like in an Assassin's Creed game. The game felt like it was more parkour than combat, which I really liked because it made you appreciate your surroundings more and I had more fun with it anyway. I searched for and collected all the lost drones and had a great time finding them all in their little niche spots! I often found myself accidentally skipping entire checkpoints and sections of the map while exploring. The skips weren't hard to perform, either; sometimes all it took was a single jump to a platform. I want to say that most of these skips almost felt intentional by the developers for the sake of speedrunning the game. I don't speedrun games, so finding these on my own was awesome. Saw another review mention the comparison to Mirror's Edge's parkour system, and I can definitely see some similarities. Some of the puzzle parkour could be outsmarted if you knew the limits of the game's mechanics, like air-dashing with P's weapon to reach distant platforms or jumping perfectly to reach surfaces you were meant to wall-run on. The game gives small hints on where to go through the orange coloring of objects and the scratch marks on walls. Sections often have several pathways to reach the next area, which I found great. I could totally replay the game several times and find new, potentially faster ways to reach the next objective each time. At any point in the game, I could look down and see past areas I had completed and the remains of previous bosses defeated, especially from the top. Very cool feeling of accomplishment. I found the interactions between P and Orbie really cute. I would always try to poke and click P to see both dialogues from the two options during slack-off scenes. I liked how the third-person camera is canon with Orbie, and Orbie is us, the player, as an AI, with the combat music that plays during fights apparently coming from Orbie too! There are plenty of little things Orbie and P do when looking at P or in selfie mode, including THAT one face, and THAT one action she does with her leg when you view her from below. It's a shame she didn't bring her other uniform. It's nice to see this little wholesome peace between the two in a world that's constantly trying to kill P. If Orbie were a real person, I think this game would've taken a slightly different turn. I'll continue to play the game and explore. You can totally just go out of bounds and start walking in a random direction just to look around and absorb the environment. There are a few strange secrets that I've encountered, and I'm looking forward to finding more. Thank you, Regular Studios. I'm full.