A cool game you can finish in a day. With some extra stuff in it to kill some extra hours.

But it is half baked. The gun-play is good, while some mechanics feeling quite dated or even unnecessary.
But the main issue is that for a short game it feels like you are just replaying the first level over and over.
There is no amazing levels here. Just well made set pieces, and the game runs out of tools real quick, only having 4 type of enemies with 3 type of guns to play around with. Even the bosses are all the same or ideas get reused later.
Its not a COD clone. But its nothing that's going to wow you.

What should have been the thing to make its mediocrity worth it was the story, but sadly it is just poorly written, and painfully shallow. The ending being totally undeserved and just eye rolling.
I like the idea of a first person story being told and changed in real time, and I wished they delved into the gimmick of having an unreliable narrator.
Maybe its a guy to full of himself,
Maybe he isn't as heroic as he claims to be,
Maybe the plot for revenge is totally one sided manufactured to justify his own actions,
Maybe all of these, or none.
Make the narrator and the characters around him more interesting as they question this very story.
Actually use the the core thing that makes this game stand out.

But what you see is what you get.
It's just as painfully shallow like its game-play.

Reviewed on Mar 30, 2024


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