Steam and Metal Reviews

Warning: This isn't your traditional bullethell/shmup. Imo this is predominantly an on rails precision parkour (the really unforgiving frustrating kind, some parts really felt the same level of BS that Unfair Mario can be.) Anyway, it requires tight controls as a result, but then, it doesn't feel tight, and sometimes you feel it moves too fast but then at the same time too sluggishly. I've never played shmup where I repeatedly failed to take down all ships, and certainly not on the first level that is how slow you are, already making it feel lackluster especially when you're used to actual good shmups. There is also a garbage mechanic of needing to hold down a button to charge to fire a missile on eventual release when done charging where the timer for it to be ready is in a spot on the screen you cannot afford to glance at most of the time. Just let us shoot a rocket in lieu of the bomb we often get in shmups. Why this added nonsense? It's not fun. At least, this game is not fun to me. I love shmups and I never get mad at dying in them, due to like failing to weave through complex bullet patterns and such, but this game pissed me off. Level 2 is some grade A bs if you ask me, and I can only imagine it gets worse and worse. I can't tell ya cuz I ain't suffering through that just to beat this lackluster game where there's so many good ones in my library. I'm good bro, thanks.