Hyperviolent is honestly Hyper-not-thrilling.
I really wanted to like this game, and I do like some parts of it, very much so. Not enough to concider it a 'fun' game however. The nice parts for me are: Worldbuilding, weapon design and parts of the gunplay. And the list cuts short about there.
The other parts of this game just really feel lacking, the level design is very confusing, with the player often, like very often, needing to go back and forth to get the specific coloured key card, which gets repetitive really quickly. Some parts of the game are also very ambiguous, but not really in an interesting way either, like there's this section that requires you to craft a grenade and blown up a crack in the wall. and this is not for a little secret, it's for a main keycard needed to progress the story.
The weapon design itself is great, including things like a cool SMG thing that looks like a stapler, double barrel shotgun that doesn't look like any double barrel I have seen before and a gun that lets you take over the bodies of specific enemies. The problem with the weapons lies with thier inaccuracy and strange viewmodels. The weapons never seem to shoot exactly where you're aiming, and this doesn't seem a fault of the player, as this seems to have been reported by many, many players. The other strange this is that many weapons barrels do not point towards the middle of the screen, where your crosshair is but rather completely off to the side, which is really jarring once you notice it.
One nitpick also, the enemies. Their designs are a quite hard to make out and honestly just not that great. A good example of low res NPC sprites is Doom, they had to work with just as many pixels but still manage to acheive a readable NPC. Hyperviolent doesn't.
The final nail in the coffin was the performance. Now I don't have the best PC but this game, with the style it chooses and low res textured sprites SHOULD NOT be running on 30 FPS on a resonably new computer. These kinds of games tend to hit 60s easily on even intergrated graphics, let alone graphics card.
I understand Hyperviolent is developed by 1 dev, and that is very impressive, but it ultimately doesn't achieve what it set out to, to be pure, crazy, hyper fun.
It's also not very violent.
