Omega Mouse Zero Reviews

Metroidvanias with hard rock music have a history of being very bad. Metroidvanias with anthropomorphic mice also have history of being very bad. This has both. My hope is that two very negative trends would cancel each other out to produce a good game. Unfortunately that didn't happen but it was not for the reasons I expected. It turns out the reasons this is bad are as follows: - The map is completely useless - The game decided to try out a unique 2.75D style. How should I explain this... do you remember those old arcade beat em ups how you had to move into lanes and could only attack baddies in the lane that you are in? well, this game has that, its the first metroidvania ever made to feature that. Unfortunately, it doesn't work out at all in practice. The reason why is that it is usually very hard to see which lane the enemies are in, enemies can shoot at you from any lane but you can only attack them on their lane. It's too bad this doesn't work really, this could have been a really fun originaly metroid like - The performance is too poor when there are too many entities nearby, which is weird because my CPU was recently adjusted to be able to handle lots of stuff thrown at it... so why didn't it? - The game is too unpolished and the menu feels really unfinished and primitive. - The lighting is too poor, the devs clearly didn't follow the guides for how to use lighting to subtly guide the player either....

Omega Mouse Zero seems alright and full of potential honestly, It's got some pretty strange vibes, I was starting to get into it. ..but then I encountered a bug where I wasn't able to save at a save point, despite it having let me do it at the past few I had encountered. I eventually died somewhere with plenty of progress lost and lacked the motivation to redo everything. Maybe if that bug can get fixed up I will revisit this one day.