Prodeus

I think the achivement "its finally over" with its completion rate of 14.3% perfectly encapsulates the game, while the first few levels are really well paced, it does fall apart about midway through the first "episode", i put that in quotation marks because of the way the levels are presented, you have this overworld map "mario 3"-style and each overworld map has its own theme. The first one is more industrial, second was snow and 3rd one hell (and i just finished the game but cant remember if there was a 4th one and i dont really care). I tested different difficulties to see what changes, but i only noticed the Bullet Sponge Effect, so i would recommend normal or easier difficulties based on that. To fix "BSE" just add more enemies and make the player take more damage, its as simple as that, but they almost never do that. The weapons, first you get a pistol, which you have to use for far too long, then you get a shotgun and the pistol will never be used ever again, i think you also have fists to punch things, but i never used them, most weapons have a secondary mode, the shotgun has a long range shot that applies fire to enemies, and i want to compare this to WRATH, another boomer shooter, but Prodeus does the shotgun better, the charge up is much faster so the shotgun doesnt feel weak or slow. There is also a super shotgun you can buy with currency (shards) you pick up here and there over the maps, and that was basically my main gun throughout the near 5 hour game. Sadly the chaingun in the game has that annoying cliche of wind up before shooting, its secondary mode doesnt really seem to do anything other than keeping the barrels spinning with the whirring sound that gets annoying immediately, they could have done something else with that, like double rate of fire or explosive ammo that consumed double ammo (anything really). Then theres grenade launcher, rocket launcher and energy based weapons, you know, the usual. I think the most unique out of the line up is the chaos sniper rifle (forgot the real name), main fire is automatic that seem to lash out to nearby enemies and secondary is close to a rail gun that consumes large amounts of ammo. Then theres the VFX, the blood splashes are not cup sized, bucket sized or bathtub sized, the blood splashes are firetruck sized and cover the screen so much that you cant see whats going on, i wish there was a way to reduce the size of the sprites so that they dont cover so much on the screen, but the graphics settings are extremely limited. The enemy variety is pretty decent with some flying enemies and a few melee ones with most of them shooting, although it seems all enemies lead their targets, and that doesnt really feel good, sometimes it feels like its better to stand still and shoot instead of moving, cause you're gonna get hit anyway. Of course this is ok for some enemies, but all of them?. My enjoyment score for this game is 50% Would probably not play again. But its a decent single playthrough. It looks really nice, especially in the early levels, where they put most of their effort but i feel they spent so much effort on certain things i wonder why the weapons and enemies werent 3D as well, instead of sprites, but still, it looks nice.