Enjoyable and fitting base mechanics. Dull story but good dialogue and well acted by some of the actors from the films (I'm pretty sure John never says anything though).

Needs more combat options, early cutscene shows you doing things it would be really nice to do like grabbing a guy with a gun and using his gun to shoot someone else and throwing a guy into another. A mode that makes you act in five seconds is pointless, as there is no reason to take that long and the delay would likely come from menu navigation, finding the write place to click to move, or adjusting the camera. Pistols, the carbine, and the bullpup shotgun are the only good weapons. For some reason you awkwardly continue to fire any machine gun long after a target has died (you stop shooting with other guns) which make the guns more of a hazard to use than anything else, revolvers and regular shotguns take too long to aim. Odd level design choice where enemies keep coming out of spawn point doors or behind you from areas that you have cleared, turning what should be a faster more exciting game where you quickly get through areas engaging multiple enemies into a dull slow paced affair where you keep clearing the enemies behind you or the solo opponents stumbling out of doors. Most of the levels allow you to spend coins for different tailored suit upgrades, some of which are obviously better than others or you can use coins to stash weapons and healing supplies in levels. The coins are too limited to get many suit upgrades, most weapons too useless or plentiful for storing weapons to matter, and the game too easy for you to need more than the starting two bandages. Replays are nice but the camera and hex movement grid make replays look awkward. Too few animations and too many that look unfluid and glitchy. The walk speed and hex movement everyone is in always looks weird. The game is buggy, at one point just showing an end mission cutscene as a black screen and the menu and moving options froze up multiple times forcing me to restart levels that I had almost finished. Too much of a puzzle game where you are just exploiting enemy movement patterns rather than a John Wick game.

It would help a lot if more animations were added, especially ones that could logically flow into each other or if the game came with a map editor and the ability to share them as some of the areas worked really well and having more like that would make for some good areas.

Mission Replays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yebGnnycAU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ndc3SHp13A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2vt4FciqhI&t=2s

Reviewed on May 18, 2021


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