Not very good, but not without merit. This review will contain a walkthrough!
First, don't hit Q ever, that opens the menu and you might accidentally click something. Next, you need to do a fair lot of crafting. The main goal of the game is to put coloured plasma keys into coloured plasma doors, which isn't a horrid idea by any means. But, you can and do simply buy them from the store and you usually have enough money... so just immediately craft 5~10 of each key and complete the first two levels. Then you should have enough money to craft like 100 of every key, which will last a long long long time.
Also, you press Tab to pull out your gun... you will accidentally shift+tab in this game quite often.
Starting from level 2 or 3 you can upgrade plasmas to make them heal for more, but this is pointless since it's always easier to use 2 in quick succession than to use 3 to craft the strongest version. For healing, use only white plasma as it's the strongest since it heals health, energy and ammo at the same time. Level 3 is rather maze like and can take a while. Level 4 is more forgiving as it gives updating respawn points, but it's also the longest mission by far. Level 5 starts like how the game starts in the town, but now it's eeeeeeviiiiiillllll.
You can also now make the game playable
Up until now the enemies have been absurdly durable. The basic droids and people are ok, but once the Rise of the Robots show up it's legitimately better for your health to just walk passed them. Until Level 5, as you can now craft upgrades. I recommend the Red upgrade for the weapon and the Green for the armour. The red weapon upgrades double your damage. You can have 1 upgrade on the weapon and 1 on the armour for now. Now all the levels repeat, only this time you have to defuse some bombs as well... which, IRONICALLY, makes the levels more navigable; the game could legit start here and be decent. Every new level a new tier of upgrade becomes available... however, it's not really "tiers" in the sense that makes sense, instead each of the 4 tiers is a different section of upgrade, so you can have 1 tier 1, 2, 3 and 4 upgrade on the armour and on the weapon. Fighting basic enemies is tolerable when you have 2x damage and fighting the Rise of the Robots becomes tolerable at 4x damage; for armour I recommend sprint... at 16x sprint you have infinite sprint, to maybe take 8x sprint and 2x health regen (which would be 3 green and 1 red)
After you have access to tier 4 upgrades, what could the next level offer? Well, some of the plasma colours offer multiple upgrades at the same time. The level after tier 4 gets you access to this. So now you can upgrade all 8 of your upgrades to yellow. Next level you upgrade them all to white; giving you a total of 16x in all stats.
Then the game ends!
Ya, even though there's an achievement for beating 10 tasks, the game ends at 8!
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So, the game sucks... but I wanted to comment on a few positives. First, I rather like the power nodes in the ground showing the levels power up; it really helps with level navigation and overall pacing. Secondly, the music aint bad and it even changes when you get aggro...
and that's about it.
Also the game very gratuitously focuses on your character's manass by making sure it's extra shiny and has accentuating glute lines... and I swear it gets shinier as the game goes on. And your bullets don't go where the crosshair points. Also when a quest objective pops up it does so as a plain textbar, so you can actually click on the mission notices and delete them and type whatever you want... doesn't do anything, it's just a message, but I found that hella funny. You can press F to turn on a flashlight, which does have a nice lighting effect on the metallic terrain, only the flashlight has a length of about two arms length and there are no dark zones so it's just cosmetic.
