Wanted: Dead

I wanted to enjoy the game, but the combat that half the reviews that extoll how great and fun the combat are - I sit in the other half. Whether using keyboard and mouse, or controller the combat didn't flow or click with me. It felt clunky, you had gunplay that feels kind of tacked on, and swordplay that just didn't respond well. Maybe I had the subconscious expectation to button mash my way through, but there was some latency between what I thought I was doing and what actually happened. The gunplay being poor, means you have to use your sword. This means running into enemies firing guns, so either eat bullets or dodge and weave around obstacles. Thankfully the normal goon NPCs have pretty bad AI. As do your ally NPCs, who do nothing to help you; you know how it is, somehow their bullets and grenades do no damage, and they take no damage. Having said that I did not have the patience to brute past the first mission to see if unlocking abilities improves things in any way (you earn XP on kills that you can spend to buy skills, such as being better at guns, power attacks, etc.). There is nothing to write home about in the first mission either, as something of an opener you do not get a good idea of who your character or the team are, and you run down grey hallways, with grey tables in random places, and some vases you can break. The environment doesn't change much. All-in-all the game summary of "a janky love letter to PS2-era action" did not have to include the jank. If that appeals to you, go for it, but it didn't for me.

Ai Sloop

This has to be one of the WORST games I've ever played in my life. The concept is cool, the main character's design is awesome and the worldbuilding is cool as well; it's just terrible in execution. Case in point are the clunkiness of the game's controls, and how the combat is not smooth at all when it's a COMBAT game. Let me explain: First of all, pressing the ESC key does not bring up the menu, you have to press the TAB key for that. You also can't press the ESC to get out of any menu at all, you press the Backspace key instead. Why anyone thought this was a good idea must have been h*gh out of their minds or haven't played any PC video games in the last 20 years. You want to swing your katana? It's the middle mouse button. You want to block with your katana? It's the SHIFT key. You want to sprint? You have to press the CTRL key. You want to grab items or activate things? Press the ALT Key to do that. Oh and you want to shoot your handgun? You have to tap "E" on your keyboard. And oh my god, reloading your guns is just begging for you to get shot because of how slow it is. But then again, why do you even need to reload your guns? They're practically peashooters and do almost no damage unless you hit a headshot or sink your entire magazine into the enemy. I stopped playing at the Spider-Tank boss. I should have stopped playing a lot earlier. At this point, I think this game was made to troll whoever wasted their money on this. But then again, if you'd rather not know peace, fun or happiness and love being ragebaited; then this is the game for you. Otherwise skip it.

Loved this game but remove the newly-added AI store assets pls, they're tacky and ruin the vibe

Did originally enjoy this some when I played it after getting it within a bundle, despite the myriad of issues with combat, story, and well pretty much everything actually. It's a mess, an especially frustrating one prone to driving me away from the controller for a bit, that can feel as if it's trying too hard to emulate the oddities ya expect from something like Yakuza while falling flat from the charm there. However can't say it'd be worth the chance, even if they put it on heavy sale. Doubly so if they can't even advertise themselves as being confident in what they've put out there by opting to replace what was a perfectly serviceable capsule and banner art with AI generated content that's messy and harsh on the eyes.

wtf happened, adding an ai garbage banner years after launch to a game that had a niche following is probably one of the dumbest things iv seen a company do. the game itself was already niche, this better get reverted

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