Sunset Overdrive is a fun game with its great movement system, and probably the only game where I preferred to traverse normally instead of fast travel. It really puts silly fun above logic. There are plenty of issues but the positives outweigh the negatives.
My biggest complaint is the enemies never leave you alone, which makes the early game very frustrating. You can never sit still and admire the city due the sheer number and their inexplicable scent tracking. If you try to shoot them all, you'll probably run out of ammo, assuming they don't kill you first since health pickups are scarce. This does force you to always be moving while attacking, engaging with the movement system, but this has another problem: you don't start with good moves for getting away. There's a move to slam the ground and get a lot of extra height, which would have been extremely useful early on as getting onto the telephone lines to run away is a challenge (must rail grind on the road guardrails, then fling on a pole, then you're up; that's a complicated thing to force learning right away). Another ability is air dashing, but at least that's not given immediately to force you to learn the basics first. Water sliding/diving would've been nice to learn about earlier.
Combat while sliding and bouncing and flinging away never gets old. However, whenever you need to stay in one place, usually for missions or when attacking something tanky, it gets really awkward. Changing direction while grinding stops shooting, and sometimes enemies can hit you to force inability to shoot, making the encounters take longer than they should. The weapon Amps make this easier, but this requires getting the weapon to level 2 first, which doesn't exactly help. Some parts of the city are too dense, causing chaotic movement as you desperately try to regain control of the situation due to the oversimplified controls.
Most missions are very basic, usually "go here, kill this, repeat" until you get a cool cutscene. That's true for main missions and side quests, and they really like sending you far away for no reason as well. The DLC missions are strangely difficult, as if they didn't get enough playtesting for balancing. At least the fourth wall breaks are funny, specifically the player being distinctly aware they are in a video game with the quips about respawning.
The PC port isn't great, especially no FOV slider. Sometimes the dialog had issues with the subtitles not showing up, or cutscenes failing to screen transition correctly. And the save file corruption issue has never been fixed, despite it simply being the game confused by its own cloud save file settings (did no one open the game before pushing to Steam?).
Despite its issues, Sunset Overdrive is a good game that more people should play. Most of the negative reviews on Steam are for the save file corruption issue rather than the game itself. How unfortunate it was released on the Xbox One and was forgotten. And we'll probably never get a sequel since the game's rights are now owned by Sony while Microsoft still has a contract to get the sequels.
