SPRAWL

gameplay is great, story is a bit bland, but it's overall a great experience. can't wait to play SPRAWL ZERO when that releases.

Pretty banger, fun gunplay and interesting level design. The setting is super cool and dystopian and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hell the music rocks. Good good.

Really cool game. The atmosphere is off the charts and the Ghost In The Shell / Blade Runner feeling this whole game has is really damn cool. Music is great and the gunplay feels really good too. I thought the art direction was top notch, genuinely felt AAA in some areas and overall just oozes with personality and cohesion, which is something some indie games really struggle with. The lighting looks incredible and I often found myself wanting to stop and just look around and take screenshots. It's really a beautiful game. Gameplay wise, I wasn't exactly into it. I'm not a huge movement shooter or FPS Platformer fan and this game is basically exclusively that which made it difficult for me to really get into playing the game. I finally found a flow state that worked for me and was able to re-keybind some of the controls to feel more comfortable which ended up being the saving grace in this department. Once I had that flow state down and understood how to use adrenaline better it was a bit more fun. My biggest gripe with the gameplay is the balancing though, even with a good understanding of how to play after much trial and error it still felt like I was constantly running out of ammo, adrenaline, and health. Eventually I dug through the settings and it seems like the devs know the balancing is, well, unique, because they added a damage slider and an adrenaline consumption slider to the game settings. So I nerfed the crap out of the enemies and made adrenaline deplete much slower too and then the gameplay really got fun. In the end, this could entirely be a skill issue on my part, but the game did feel pretty punishing so the sliders were a great way to balance that out. Story is fairly non existent. There is a codex with some lore/backstory type stuff but it all felt difficult to follow and basically lost my interest after the first half dozen were found. The in-game story is told to you through an ear piece as a disembodied voice talks to you throughout but there isn't much context as to who or what that voice belongs to. Eventually you find out but it left me feeling just a bit turned around. I kept asking myself why things were happening and why I was going where I was going other than to simply progress to the next fight. The story could've been tackled better. In the end, it's a fun game. Definitely worth picking up if you like shooters, and especially if you're into movement shooters and platforming as those are heavily focused on in this game. I'm very much looking forward to SPRAWL zero, the demo was incredible and feels a lot different than this game, but I'm glad that I played this and got to experience the game in its entirety.