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bad

IT IS GOOD

Stick figures fall true Gun mechanics carve the stealth Old flash bleeds anew

the enemies made for lots of waiting and less actual action which delayed speedrun prospects diagonally

Feels like the humor of Kingdom of Loathing married the gameplay style of Into the Eagles Nest, then got bit by Metal Gear Solid while pregnant and finally gave birth to this mutant. Nothing particularly amazing or new about any of it, but it succeeds at executing a simple arcade-style 2D-shooter concept well enough. If you've ever played a Flash game from the old days, you'll be familiar with the feel of this one. There's a few hours of gameplay, which you could probably stretch to 12-15 if you wanted to 100% it. Gameplay for most levels (any without the snake cam kit) boils down to more-or-less memorizing the layouts (because doors usually lead to an "adjacent" map layer, which you cannot see until you're in it), and utilizing stealth as much as possible (because enemies are bullet sponges when alerted, and you have very limited ammo and health). It definitely began to feel stale after the 2nd mission, but the missions are short enough that I was able to power through it. A definite personal-preference annoyance is the controls, which cannot be remapped in-game and (at least for Keyboard) are not as intuitive as they could be - but some will probably disagree, and it IS still playable. I eventually cooked up a Razer profile for the game and bound its required keys to some simple mouse macros, which was an immediate and significant quality of life improvement. My one bonafide gripe is that it is not possible to change your equipment loadout for each mission; you just get a default setup for each particular run. This ultimately means that you end up using your knife, a lot, in most missions when you aren't issued proper stealth weapons - and such a one-dimensional inevitability felt very reductive, and was simply less enjoyable than it could have been. (There's also a lot of missed replayability-potential). Worth $2-3 bucks for the tongue-in-cheek humor and getting to slaughter stick-people... in the name of saving other stick people, naturally.

https://youtu.be/9tky-zDBg-Q Simply moving a flash game to Steam isn't enough to generate an compelling experience due to the inherit gameplay limitations.