Neon White (2022)

The gameplay has a nice sense of momentum and speed, and competing with your friends for the best time can be quite fun. But the game definitely drags on a bit, and by the final chapter I was begging for it to end. The story does no favors in that regard, as it's a total cringe-fest. I believe the dev was self-aware and leaning into the cringe, and that made it kind of ironically funny at first, but it ceases to be cute well before the credits rolled.

Neon White is a first person shooter/puzzle/platformer? that's all about finishing the levels as quickly as possible. You can only ever hold up to two weapons, which are cards you pick up in the levels, at a time. When picking these up, you have a limited number of shots you can take, as well as discarding the card which gives you another unique ability. This can be a basic jump, a speedboost in a single direction, a grappling hook, among others. To complete a level, you must first kill all enemies within that level for the end gate to open up. The gameplay loop here is incredibly addicting. Your first few attempts at a level may take over a minute, if you even complete it at all. Eventually though you learn how to optimize your run to the point it may only take a handful of seconds to complete the level. There is a story here about being a character sent to hell being brought to heaven to rid it of evils, with some twists and turns along the way. The story is somewhat interesting, but some of the dialog can be really cringey at times. That was nowhere near enough though to spoil my enjoyment of the game. I really enjoyed my time with this game and hope that down the line we can see some kind of sequel, or a similar type of game from these developers.

Bom, eu comecei ele por estar ouvindo bastante dele no cenário dos games, basicamente você é um ceifador que tem que eliminar todos os demônios da fase indo do ponto A ao ponto B o mais rápido possível onde suas armas na verdade são cartas que tem poderes de armas de fogo, gostei da mecânica das armas serem cartas, terem um limite de munição e uma habilidade secundária única pra cada arma, a variedade de armas não é tão grande mas é boa, todas tem suas peculiaridades e fazem bom uso de suas habilidades nas fases, admito que no começo eu não gostei muito das fases por serem muito fáceis, sem desafio nenhum, e a história também não me chamou atenção de primeira, mas conforme continuei a gameplay, fui me cativando com os personagens e como passado misterioso deles que todo mundo sabe menos o protagonista, a parte de entregar presentes e ter diálogos que eu odiava no começo se tornou um ponto forte, eu queria saber mais do passado deles e também das interações que os personagens tinham entre si no Paraíso, cada um dos personagens da trama tem uma personalidade única e marcante, adoro jogos nesse estilo de ter que otimizar sua rota pela fase pra terminar o mais rápido possível e este aqui não me decepcionou, ele não tem uma dificuldade elevada igual a outros do mesmo gênero que já joguei ele é mediano neste quesito, tem um começo bem parado e fácil mas as fases mais adiantes se tornam bem melhores em minha opinião, um outro game semelhante a este é Cyber Hook

This game feels so tight and was so easy to play in short bursts. Incredibly satisfying movement controls and unique level designs. The way that the game leads you through levels, you end up playing them a few times over, but you have new goals every time and they take about a minute each so it never feels annoying. Story and style were a turnoff for me but as a game it’s fantastic.

This shit is fucking sick, Steve Blum kills the voice acting on White and all the characters have interesting backstories and their developments are there to really shit you in the feels. The gameplay is amazing too, the game makes you feel like an absolute badass, running, dodging, shooting, mixed with amazing maps, makes this my indie game of the year. (fucking Stray is fighting me on that statement)