The game starts in a jail, with the hero of the game, Seenu, who has been accused of a murder. Since the inmate sharing his cell is interested in how it all happened, Seenu tells him how it all began because he was in love with a girl from his village.
The story jumps back to the beginning, when things get complicated after you beat up a gang. Unfortunately, one of the hoodlums was the little brother of the village’s gang leader, who has ties to the police and is involved in the drug business. The story is quite brutal, and the same goes for the art, which doesn’t shy away from blood, including a gory scene where a train cuts right through a person.
You don’t have a lot to worry about when it comes to controls. There’s movement, an interaction button for talking or picking things up, a dash to get away from enemy attacks, and an attack button. You start with a stick and a slingshot, and although you can only carry so many stones that serve as ammo, this usually isn’t a problem because you can find them nearby in unlimited supply, although you need to wait a few seconds for them to respawn.
Although the game has six chapters, they all take place in the same village that you can explore. Sadly, there’s nothing interesting to find by sticking your nose everywhere, and the only spots of interest are the main story objective, marked with a white arrow, or rare blue arrows pointing to a side mission.
But it turns out there are only two side missions, one of which has to be triggered first by finding the person with an exclamation mark above them, and nothing points you toward it. While one rewards you with a sack that lets you carry more ammo, the other gives you a new ammo type that travels farther and deals more damage. The rest of the exploration matters only for one achievement in which you have to visit all parts of the map.
You have several hearts that represent your health, but the first few fights are against stronger enemies. So instead of losing a heart or half of one after a hit, like you do against the normal grunts you encounter later, you lose several and sometimes die immediately. This makes the extra heart pointless, especially because it’s incredibly annoying to heal.
Healing comes from fruit hanging on trees, but you need to shoot it with a slingshot, and each piece of fruit heals only one heart, so you need to grab several. Because of that, you can easily ignore the fruit mechanic entirely because when you die, you respawn at a shrine with full health, or at the last checkpoint if the story takes you somewhere else.
Once you get comfortable with the dodge timing and gain an axe a few minutes into the game, all other weapons become useless. Although slow, an axe deals a lot of damage to everything it hits. But none of this gets to shine much because the game is very short and can be finished in less than one hour. Except for one situation that doesn’t explain the mechanics – killing a chicken and using meat to distract dogs – progress is fast, almost too fast, and the price of the game should be lower or at least wait for a discount.
It also gets easier, like in the battle encounter near the end where enemies won’t pass an invisible line on the ground, allowing you to hit them from the other side without any fear of retaliation. This is also a good spot to grind for achievements that require you to kill enemies with different weapons or throw hay near cows that will smash into them.
