Review killerstar 3/5 · Jul 4, 2023
It has a strong beginning, full of wacky enemies and cool weapons. The pacing is good, with lots of action and the regenerating ammo does away with rummaging around drawers for ammo. The shooting is fun and solid, with various reload actions that achieve a good balance of being interesting and challenging to do but not too involved that you …
It has a strong beginning, full of wacky enemies and cool weapons. The pacing is good, with lots of action and the regenerating ammo does away with rummaging around drawers for ammo. The shooting is fun and solid, with various reload actions that achieve a good balance of being interesting and challenging to do but not too involved that you need to run away and cover.
Unfortunately the game really loses steam at around the halfway point. By now all the novelty starts wearing out and you start to see the issues. Bulletspongy bosses, incredibly dumb AI, difficulty that racks up by just ding more and more enemies, dull level design. Weapons start to become boring since latter-game weapons are mostly useless so it gets repetitive, and weapon upgrades are either useless or don't change gameplay much.
I called it quits when the game barraged me with half a dozen invisible enemies. They are terrible and not fun to go against, since the main technique is to run backwards and shoot them in the brief moment they become visible when they attack.