MechaGore

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What attracted me about this game was the art style. After playing the game I have to say that it's way too rough and way too basic to be anything interesting. This game feels like it's a mixture of Jazz Jackrabbit and Abe's Odyssey and it falls short on both. Not delivering with the wacky and varied gunplay of Jazz and not having an interesting story like Abe. Pros - The ideas and the start of the game has potential at least Cons - The controls are quite bad. Changes in platform angle and collisions eat up your jump inputs. Meaning if you press jump at the wrong time, the character just does nothing - The game lacks celebration and polish in almost everything it does. The death screen lingers on too long, when you find weapons, it's almost as if nothing happened. It's just laying around there next to other crap. Gameplay events don't feel polished and thought out - Some of the mechanics such as using the elevator or interacting with large buttons is a bit unclear. Also at some point you just needed to figure out that you can shoot certain panels and they extend into platforms - You don't have proper ways of avoiding attacks - You cannot use the camera to peek forward, backward, up or down. It's fixed and there's no control for it - The attack type for the hammer robots are unpredictable and inconsistent. It's hard to understand when they shoot a really fast projectile and when they don't. Also a hammer they have thrown that has already landed will do damage to you... It makes no sense - The enemy health for at least the hammer guy is extremely inconsistent. Sometimes you shoot them for a good while and sometimes they just explode from the first shot. - The invulnerability period after taking damage is way too short for the game's good. You can easily get gangbanged from simple enemies. I stopped playing when I was supposed to go from right to left with a platform that has a mounted gun. You just take too much damage and there's no way to recover from it. - The game doesn't really understand it's shortcomings. It's not a nail-bitingly intense platformer with crisp controls. It's an amateur production with frustratingly inconsistent visual language and unclear jumping metrics. - The platforming objects and background objects sometimes mix together and you can only figure these out through trial and error - There isn't that much to do. You only collect tokens that give you weapon energy and health. That's it. There isn't any mid-long term goals for you. Every now and then you find new weapons and perma upgrades to your kit but they don't really feel meaningful. - The start of the game is too spaced out. You tend to travel for extended periods without finding anything interesting or even have clear moments where you realize "Oh I might need a double jump here." - I managed to sequence break the game accidentally. I was trying to find card D and going through all the previous parts and ended up into the chamber where the door closes and you need to get out... I mean man if you have teleports that can send you back in the level, you should be thinking about those things. - There are multiple parts in the level design where I wasn't sure if I was going the right direction or doing the right thing. Sometimes you need a permanent upgrade, sometimes you just need to figure out something the game hasn't taught you - The game doesn't re-use or teach mechanics well in general