Stop Dead Reviews

All it took was the elevator joke to fully convince me this game has the sauce. Here's hoping the 1.0 release gets more eyes on it!

Most video gamey video game ever. Seriously, it's fast, fun, and makes you want to speedrun. Even if you’re not a speedrunner. You restart a level without thinking, it's that good. Tutorial's super short (in a good way) and has that ironic Portal-style humor. Then I got an F after the first level. So, I tried again. And again. Got an S-rank with some slick movement tech. Game teaches you just enough, then lets you figure it out through trial and error. Love that. The hidden shortcuts for S-ranks are the secret sauce. Feels like Neon White. Rethinking your route pays off. Also it's got a killer style, great voiceover work, and it feels amazing to play. Now excuse me, I’ve got levels to perfect.

It's like Mirror's Edge, but now main character has instant action gravity gun from HL2DM, and now every level is speedrun-oriented to the point of masochism. So now instead of delivering packages which bad people want to take from you, you deliver various things AT bad people with extreme velocity then get out ASAP. The main stop-and-die gimmick seems stupid at first but easy to get used to, and you always can turn it off in the settings in exchange for loss of leaderboard and achievements. Not really a big deal. Game has actually good OST and graphics style, I appreciate this grimy smeared comic texture look, it enriches game's trashy cyberpunk setting. The controls are good enough to blame only yourself for most mistakes. You have bunnyhop, slide dash, and thrown objects give you boost because newtonian laws yay. Also there is fair amount of humor, which makes most of the questionable game design practices and difficulty spikes game throws at a player more tolerable. The plot is about criminal convict who gets caught by some evil corporation researching bionics and psionics, and being wired with unique set of implants, which lets them use telekinetic powers but also gives them targets to kill or other directions, and is able to kill them if they disobey in any way, which includes just standing and refusing to do it as fast as humanly possible. Then this implant gets hacked by various rogue AI's who give mixed instructions and conflicting between themselves, so this creates some dark comedic situations and chaos all around for player to witness and inflict upon world and themselves. At the moment of this review being published devs did not finished the story yet, so there is no ending at the moment. But the game is pretty good and worth trying out if you like to cut through some bull%it at extreme speed.