i think ive killed more frogs in this game than every video game ive ever played put together.

Boltgun is a good. It's got some frustrating design gripes and plays its whole hand basically half way through the game but the gunplay, weapons and movement is very satisfying.

There's a good variety of weapons and I found myself using all of them pretty evenly throughout the game, especially when you want to really start conserving your heavier ammo for the bigger boys. Combine this with being able to able to really haul ass movement wise and how almost everything explodes into blood and guts upon getting shot leads to a very good feeling game.

Enemy variety is... fine. Most of the human chaos enemies feel like variations of the same projectile shooting enemy with different amounts of health and armor. The daemons are better in variety (which is odd seeing how most daemon enemy types are also split inbetween a light and heavy mix). It def plays its hand too early; you encounter the last enemy type around the end of act 2 and from there you're sorta just flipping through various types of arenas with the same enemies.

Because most enemies are Shoot Projectile enemies a lot of fights can turn into shitshows and it feels pretty unreasonable to not get getting hit by random projectiles you dont even seen. The game is very generous with health so eventually you just deal with it but it can still be frustrating at times when you go from 200/200 to like 50/0 without really noticing.

Also enemies have a really bad habit of blending into the the map at times, particularly the cultists have very similar color palettes to most. Cultists were doing some MGS3 shit to me.

Level design i would say is good but this game is in desperate need of even a basic map. It's nice to have large ass maps again but i got constantly fucking lost in this game which blows my mind cuz this game uses yellow paint for climbable ledges and some areas straight up just have arrows pointing the way. Am I stupid? no. it's definitely not me. I swear. Also fuck the grand elevator.

It's good. I've got gripes and it's far from my favorite boomer shooter but when games workshop will lend this license to anyone and we have an endless sea of mid at best 40k games it's really nice to have a 40k game that's actually just good and feels good to play.


so many frogs. so many frogs.