Short, mouse-only aiming puzzle game with a purposefully garish and noisy visual design. Story is told through expressive, feverish hand drawn cutscenes without dialogue, and it is about The Traumatised Bullet Whispering Girl's revenge against a bunch of unarmed hobos in tracksuits. Through multiple retries, learn the layout of a level and find a working route to chain all enemies in "one" shot, re-aiming it after each consecutive hit on target. While not being a complex sniping simulator - the game's physics are basic, and The Girl appears to send not just the bullet, but the whole cartridge out of the barrel - it is nevertheless engaging in the beginning. Sadly it does get a bit too restrictive towards the end.
The Girl has limited ability to pick a firing position by dragging the mouse left or right, which isn't really necessary most of the time. However, this phase can be utilised to tag as many enemies as possible with mouse wheel to locate them during the following attempts. In later levels only some enemies will be visible from the initial vantage point, whereas the rest will be tagged later while flying "scouting bullets" past them or by simply shooting them. The Girl packs only one cartridge and supposedly neutralises everyone in a second, so no environmental manipulation of any kind is possible. Successfully hitting a viable target (of which there are three types: enemy, bird, fuel tank) allows to freely aim again at the next target in slow motion to find the winning sequence. Missing the shot means restarting the level, with all previously tagged enemies retaining the tags above their heads.
According to the user manual there are three powers, one of which - power shot - exists solely to dispatch armoured enemies and doesn't allow any creative usage beyond that. That leaves two powers only - the freely available core mechanic of slightly adjusting the bullet's trajectory in slow motion (activated by holding down the right mouse button) and a complete re-aim granted after hitting two targets in the highlighted parts of their bodies (single right click mid-flight). As the game progresses, enemies become better hidden and protected, making re-aim essential. The manual erroneously states that power shot is charged by shooting glowing body parts, whereas in the shipped version it is re-aim, and power shot is unlimited. Perhaps at some point during production power shot was supposed to live up to its name a bit more. It doesn't even award extra points, even though using it means sacrificing trajectory adjustment.
Enemies in the campaign are of four types: basic unarmoured type, basic but shield-bearing type, armoured type, and levitating, force-field generating type. Basic enemies have no protection and serve to replenish re-aim charges. Shield-bearers are impervious to gunfire from the front, not even a power shot through the shield's window can take them out. Armoured enemies, on the other hand, absolutely must be power-shot from a certain distance away, unless they are standing next to something explosive. They cannot be harmed from up close, and in such cases a re-aim charge has to be used to gain enough distance before coming back at them. A purple ring appears around the cursor to presumably inform when the distance is sufficient. For some reason it also appears when aiming at shield-bearers which may lead to some confusion, as power shot does not penetrate their shields - or anything else except body armour. Force-field users can either protect themselves or other enemies, leaving themselves vulnerable. Protected enemies can only be harmed after getting rid of the caster. However, when surrounded by a force-field themselves the casters divert the initial shot out of the way, which also takes their field down for a few seconds, exposing them to re-aimed shots.
Achievements are awarded for completing hidden objectives in levels which have a cryptic clue in white text in the level selection menu. Beating the campaign unlocks the endless wave assault score-attack mode, in which enemies have to be taken out before they reach The Girl. This mode also introduces the only type of enemy who can fire back - the sniper. These guys fire massive projectiles which have to be shot down in time because they cannot be dodged by moving out of their way, it seems.
