Electrifying. I love the way it balances moments of complete control, when you can use your items to guarantee a good outcome, and moments of utter chaos, when you have no choice but to play your luck and pray for the best. Its one major flaw lies in math since, for every game state, there is always an optimal action that maximizes your probability of winning. The game deals with this by giving the player imperfect information, leaving them to rely on their flawed senses to remember which kinds of rounds have been loaded and shot. It works because it's short. Were it longer though, I could see the temptation to write it all down and calculate possible outcomes easily getting to me, dumbing down the uncertainty that makes the experience work

Oh, and I LOVE the use of color quantization here. The sound design also serves as a wonderful punctuation

Reviewed on Apr 21, 2024


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