TEXNOPLAZM

Really cool first person take on the beat'em up genre. You play as a newly free willed android trying to escape a city filled with undersirables eager to beat you to a pulp. TEXNOPLAZM offers three distinctive combat styles: barehanded, melee weapon and ranged weapon, All three have their strengths and weaknesses and switching between them dynamically is where the combat shines the most. The levels progress linearly and most of the time you'll be fighting is spaces where clever use of your environment is as vital to success as good reflexes and familiarity with your moveset. The levels themselves have decent variety, with various enemy types and hazards to keep things fresh throughout. On top of the great combat, i really liked the game's mood: the environments are rather unique, feeling like cyberpunk grounded in reality, where ancient infrastructure mixes with modern sensibilities to make an interesting cityscape, it feels like walking around a Neo Tokyo ghetto and i love it. Music is also fantastic, it has good variety but the bass heavy electronic tracks match the combat's energy perfectly. Chef's kiss, can't wait to see more of this.

The mechanics in this game are super satisfying and the soundtrack is a banger. Here's some things I think the dev could add or improve. 1. More hud options The HUD is very basic and I think it could have more options (HUD in the middle showing your dashes, weapons and durability left displayed using white/gray to highlight how many shots or hits are left? (something like that), option to add indicators when attacks/parries are coming from behind the player, etc. 2. Way to view tutorials after seeing them for the first time 3. Bugs Softlocks due to doors not opening or enemies attacking strange, missing attacks or getting stuck on geometry 4. Upgrade improvements This might just be personal preference, but I think the upgrades should be acquired by completing challenges or killing a certain amount of enemies instead of finding secrets. In my opinion finding secrets should give you something like costumes, cheats or game modifiers instead of upgrades. 5. Double key binds for actions 6. More monitor settings- full-screen, widescreen, color customization, etc. 7. The parry sound Que is misleading and I think it should be changed to activate when you're actually supposed to parry. I got used to this, but I think this change would make the combat flow better and more intuitive (Especially in large fights) 8. Randomizer mode The combat system is very fun and I think it would add a lot of replay-ability if the game had a randomizer mode.

Pretty fun. Has it's flaws but is totally understandable because is early access. I'm looking towards it because this could totally be a unique and fun game in terms of mechanics and gameplay :)

it alright

Fun game, quick action.

Very stylish, easy to pick up and smash first-person brawler. Great for letting off some steam, especially when you snap into a flow-state. Highly reccomend if you're a fan of RUINER.