Behold!

Right now, sadly, I can't recommend this game. As others have noted, there appear to be some control issues that are only affecting certain people/systems:- My mouse (Razer Naga with fully up-to-date Synapse software) won't move the targetting recticle. This immediately makes mouse + keyboard play impossible. I've tried it with my Xbox pad unplugged just to be sure, but it still doesn't work. And speaking of the gamepad... The right stick DOES move the recticle, joy! But you have to hold it in a direction to aim, otherwise it snaps back to being on top of you. This wouldn't be a problem, except the game is hard-coded to use A and B to fire the two beams. I don't know about you, but it really doesn't feel right to me to have to hover my right hand over the pad with my thumb on the stick and a finger on each of those two buttons. In fact it chuffing hurts after a while. This would be easily remedied by allowing the user to rebind the controls, but alas, such is not possible. And the M+K issue would still need resolving anyway, as there's no need for this to be gamepad-only. Plus, you can't navigate the menus properly with the gamepad, so right now it's stuck in a messy no-man's-land where I need both inputs to achieve something but can't practically do anything. Also, I have two screens, and the game insists on starting on the wrong one, with no way to move it as it immediately goes fullscreen. It's not the biggest issue in the world, but I've not had that issue with any other game I can recall. One problem I have had with other games, which is also present here, is the mouse not being locked to the game area. Not helpful in a fast-action game like this to have it suddenly switch to the desktop because things have gotten a bit frantic... (though it does at least seem to pause when it loses focus). So, to the dev, please address the following: Get the mouse to move the recticle reliably, for everyone; Allow users to remap the controls, or as an absolute minimum, move the fire controls to the Xbox pad triggers; Clean up the gamepad input so you can use it to navigate the menus properly; Either give the user some option for choosing which screen to run on, or make it start up in a window and add a full-screen toggle in the options; Lock the mouse to the game area for multi-monitor setups. I apologise to the dev if any of this sounds overly harsh (especially as the game seems to work fine for the majority of people, so there's something about certain setups that must be causing it...), but that's born of frustration; I can see there's a good game in here, it just needs saving from some issues. I'm not going to refund it, as I'm hoping that these problems will indeed be sorted, resulting in a fun short-burst time-killer with some interesting depth. I'll update this review if and when that occurs.