I’ve had this for awhile and after playing Axiom Verge 2 I was feeling Metroidvania-y, so I finally booted it up. What I found was that the world has lied to me about this game because it is not a metroidvania!!

The game is extremely linear, no collectibles outside of the required upgrades to advance, and a pretty small map. Or at least it felt like it, because another thing that was missing that just about every metroidvania has is an in game map. Although, since it’s so linear you don’t really need one!

Sorry, I just love Metroidvanias and in my mind this is clearly not that. What you do get however is a very unique concept, decent puzzles, and some fun, man eating action! Is action puzzle a genre? Because that is what this feels like. While not a very long game, and not a challenging one, you will still have tons of fun watching yourself go from a tiny little ball of meat? Worms? Into this monstrous, grotesque, sin of humanity. I mean, you actually hear these people scream in terror when they see or hear you. It’s great.

While having all that fun you might be distracted every once in awhile by pacing issues, mundane controls and abilities, and the not so fun human sections.

I had fun with this game for the few hours it lasted, but I can’t say that I would recommend it to everyone.