Bears In Space

really fun old school shooter that is worth your time. funny and crowded. i played the demo long time ago and enjoyed it.

If you are a person that wants quantity over quality - this game might be a good choice. But. F that. This game throws at you 100 different things and none of them are good. Music is subpar and kinda annoying at times. it's a typical UE5 product with constant stuttering and uneven frame pacing. Story is non-sensical and without any real direction. There are quite a lot of bugs still. You will encounter mission breaking bugs that will prevent you progress any further. *some in late chapter 2, some in early parts of chapter 3). I got stuck at least 2 times, and had to redo the level from the very start... Such a time waster. Most levels are too long. Many levels are not fun at al,l and level design is below average. Lots of side missions that are like super super simple mini games (janky basketball mini game, whack a mole, arcade shooter on rails, top down shooter... and so on and so on... ). Most enemy encounters are arena-based. They just spawn 50-100 robots, and you waste all your ammo defeating them, and rinse and repeat. There are a lot of weapons to unlock, but only a few of them does the job well. Constant dialogues that pause your gameplay are also annoying af. I didn't like the humour. When you try to be funny in every single possible way - it quickly becomes dreadful and lame. This game looks ok, but the gameplay is just not fun.

Game is actually annoying to play. Constantly taking control away from the player for pointless dialog. The game is even aware how much we care for the dialog in the beginning with characters saying "blah blah blah" yet still pesters you with it and stops you incessantly so that you can click through instead of maintaining your pace of gameplay.

A bullet hell shooter with the gameplay & soundtrack of Doom an the humor of Rick & Morty 8/10

Shooting is fun, shame about the : Atrocious checkpoint placement, often [u]before[/u] multiple lengthy, un-skippable cutscenes prior to a boss fight Awful story and writing Horrendous amount of cutscenes (in the hundreds!) Constant forced interruptions from NPCs that take camera control off you (that cannot be avoided) Terrible voice acting Multiple bugs the Devs are aware of Complete lack of pacing Crashes Poor ultrawide support No brightness / gamma setting Restricted key remapping Terrible puzzles and silly sections like bouncy floors The "humour".... oh dear lord the "humour" Avoid, please, for your own sanity. I'm in the middle of the final act with a few levels to go and I don't know if I hate myself enough to finish this stinker.

Fun story, great humor, great variety of gameplay and great homage to old games

i TRIED to enjoy it, i really did. i admit i don’t usually go here, but i’m always open to try new games, and i’ve ended up liking titles that aren’t in my comfort zones. this game is painfully tedious, and neither the story nor the gameplay motivates me to continue, let alone finish it. just thinking about booting it up literally fills my mind with dread (dramatic, i know, but not too far-fetched), so i’ll have to bench it for the time being before i actually hate it beyond saving. perhaps if the stars align i’d pick it up again. maybe. no promises.

Bears in Space is a fairly fun FPS that gets dragged down by often times weird pacing, humour that misses as much as it hits, and an overall lack of focus on what works. Despite these gripes it is still a decent FPS with a ton of potential and stuff to enjoy. I will always judge an FPS (especially those that are aiming to be a bit more boomer shooter-y) by how good their shotgun is; if your shotgun sucks, I am immediately biased against you. Bears in Space's shotgun is fantastic, debatably too much so; by the end of the game I didn't feel compelled to make use of the game's staggering multitude of weapons, and instead just swapped to the shotgun and one shot pretty much every enemy, regardless of distance. This is both a good and a bad thing; it really does go to highlight this game's lack of focus; I feel like having the shotgun either slightly weaker or the other weapons slightly stronger would have made the selection feel more interesting and useful. The other weapons still have their uses, but by the time you've upgraded everything Ratchet & Clank style, the shotgun by far feels like the best weapon of the bunch. The shooting here is mostly pretty good; it's nothing special, but encounters don't last too long and never feel unfair, and there are a few enemies that it throws at you to keep you moving. I don't love the decision to take influence from bullet hells; it is something that doesn't translate particularly well to first person, simply due to your perspective making a lot of stuff awkward to dodge. What brings this game down for me is the length; this game shouldn't be 12+ hours long. Some levels in this thing literally go on for over an hour, a lot of which is just taken up with walking down hallways, listening to dialogue which doesn't really mean that much. This game really does have a ton of heart; I can tell those who worked on it really cared about what they were making. Stuff like there being a secret where you get whisked away to a basketball game that actually controls pretty well were really charming and a decent distraction from the game, but for every one cool moment like this there's like five fights where you transform into a bear and just run at enemies holding M1. A pretty good game, but one that goes on a little too long. Very charming with a cool retro future aesthetic and a good sense of humour. Worth a try if you like boomer shooters, just don't expect a masterpiece of the genre. 6/10