Alright let me get the good out of the way because ther's a lot to talk about:
First, the gameplay, two thumbs up for me. I found that if you're dying over and over again, there's somthing you're not doing right, you need ALL the ablilities and firepower you can get, unlike a lot of games where it kinda just remains unused until a hard boss fight where you go "oh that's right i had THIS power". You need everything you can to survie, and it shows a lot of thought and testing went into it.
Second, the horde mode i found to be fun. Not the best one i've ever played, but fun. Enjoyable, play the story missions up to the last one before horde mode otherwise you won't know what you're doing.
Lastly, the boss fights, i loved them. They really do make you use everything you've learnt up to that point to just try to stay alive, and if you want to beat it, you're gonna need to figure out a way. It's so satisfying to beat them however, unlike a lot of games where the boss is a bullet sponge and can't really hurt you unless you're in the way of it's one ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ attack.
BUT if I had one MAJOR complaint about this game (and I do) it's this: what seems to be the last level is absolute [u]garbage[/u] and it made me not want to play the game ever again.
Now, I'll block out the spoiler, up to you if you want to read it, but if you don't want anything spoiled let me just say this: the last level wasn't "too difficult" I went into it wanting a really meaty challenge, but that isn't what the last level is, instead, it's just trolling the player.
[spoiler] so for the last level (from what i could tell i couldn't get past it) all of your abilities and powers except for a shield are taken away. Instead it turns into a survival horror maze game where you have to get a bunch of glowy balls to put into a big glowy ball in the center of the maze. You start in the center, and have to explore the surrounding maze to find the glowy balls. In the maze are insta-death monsters who screech really loudly and are essentially a jumpscare death. You have a flashlight to see the monsters ahead of you, because otherwise you can only see a small radius around you, but they can also see the flashlight and will chase you. Also they're much faster, so it isn't as much of a chase as it is a split second telling you that you ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up. It wasn't hard, it was frustrating and just plain not fun. I hate games who's end challenge is a different set of gameplay from the rest of the game. And I hate mazes, and I hate insta-death, super fast enemies, and I hate fetch quests, so the last level is all of that rolled together. Oh, and you have to gather 5 balls without one ♥♥♥♥-up, if you do, you start all over. [/spoiler]
All in all, really fun, worth the buy, last level can suck on a hairy, sweaty, smegma covered nutsack.
