Town of Machine

The final boss is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dumb. Until then this game was quite enjoyable, but this is unreasonable. Like the boss has homing projectiles, which you can destroy, so you have to move around, which brings you to the problem that the room where you dodge the projectiles is cluttered with enemies that spawn at a random location. And did i say that the room is also filled with loads of obstacles, which makes you stop since they hinder your movement? Bla, bla, bla, I don't want to invest more energy in this ♥♥♥♥ game-if something doesn't respect my time, I will do the same.

Unexpected surprise. I basically add almost any game that looks more or less like a twin stick shooter to my wishlist. But upon playing this, it turned out to be quite a different beast. Action-adventure is a super correct description for this game. The action part is really solid. All the weapons have a great feel to them - something that too many games do not accomplish. And later you can upgrade the weapons with alternate modes that expand the fairly varied arsenal you have even further. The game is challenging, but in a good way (except the final boss battle, I hope that can get some fixes). The adventure part is also present with some really goofy dialogues (didn't mind the silly swearing at all) and a good amount of exploration. Overall well worth a try.

[h2]Barely Thumb's Up[/h2] It's good and I enjoyed that there wasn't too much "hand holding". You'll actually have to conserve ammo, make your own notes, and keep track of what's next because the game is merciless in these areas. Yes, it is [i]entirely possible[/i] to make it to the final boss and be soft locked due to insufficient ammo. This game will let you get all the way to the end and still fail through very little fault on the player's part. A good game gives the player a complete overload of ammo before the major fight, not here, you're given maybe a 10% boost on your existing ammo - good luck! All in all, a nice tight game but some huge flaws. I don't get why the dev would let you run out of ammo, it makes no sense because you can't even go back to an old save. Player beware! Also the map is utterly useless. Most of the time it's "map unavailable" and the times you do have access to it, you're already in a tiny are that doesn't [i]need[/i] a map. It's unclear what your goals are because they aren't tracked anywhere... it's up to YOU to literally take notes any time you bump into something you can't get past, or when you dialogue with NPCs and they drop key information. All in all it's a 6/10 game that could be maybe an 8 with some QoL from the dev but it's clear this game will never get another update. Actually skip it unless you're overwhelmed with delight from reading the other positive reviews. I would have been just fine missing this one, really.