Neon White had been on my radar for awhile but I truly didn't know what I was getting into. If you want insanely kinetic and smooth gameplay that really tests your reflexes, then this is exactly what you're looking for. Every level provides a challenge that feels fun, and the multiple weapon types really make the movement puzzles fresh every single chapter. The Shotgun, RPG and the final type you get are by far the most enjoyable to use. It also helps that you have an amazing soundtrack done by Machine Girl to help puncuate the action. It's very easy to find a level you vibe with, and just continously attempt to shave seconds off your time, I know I sure did. The only real weakness of Neon White, to me, is the writing can be a bit much sometimes, it's not hard to see why some call this a "reddit" game, but honestly, I don't find it as bad as most. The cast is overall solid, with White and Mikey being my standouts. I only just beat it, and I already feel that itch to jump back in and run more levels, it's that addicting.

Time travel meets Jack Reacher.

I want to preface this by saying I played on PC Gamepass and it ran like absolute ass for some reason (Alan Wake 2 ran well on my set up for reference) so my judgment might be clouded. But even with that in mind, I think a lot of my problems aren't necessarily with the gameplay. Gunplay in this one can be really fun, and messing around with the time powers zipping around and using time powers is fun. But this suffers the fate of being an early eight generation game with a lot of ambition on its plate. Every interesting decision is really undermined by how undercooked everything is. When you aren't doing pretty decent third person shooter arena fights, you're going at a snails pace as characters in the game say "Hmmm, I wonder if theres an entrance round here."

The timeloop is well fleshed out, but its really hard to care about that when most of the characters are very one note, only elevated by mostly decent performances. With Aidan Gillen (I'm CIA) and Lance Reddick (Rest in Peace) picking up slack. Anytime they were on screen I perked up, but the writing in this one feels so flaccid in this one. Not helped by the fact that the optional written text/audio in emails and radio is mindnumbling long in this one. Anytime I bothered to read it felt like I was completely distracting from game flow. And that is to say nothing of the well-shot but ultimately very uninteresting television aspect of the series (of which it wouldn't load properly on PC Gamepass, this was a Microsoft funded project).

I think there are cool things in this game, but a lot of them can be found in other Remedy works before and after. Might be worth your time if you think it'd be up your alley, but I'm glad Remedy has made more interesting works after this one.