David.

While I was hoping that the third time would be the charm on new-to-me games today, this is the most immediately unplayable of the bunch, and is arguably even more broken on a fundamental level than the other two, to the point of it being unplayable.

Demerits:

- The “Back” button in the options menu does nothing when you click it, and ESC exits the game without saving anything.

- No reason exists, other than to over-complicate things, why you need to click and hold in a direction to fire your particles. Merely clicking would have been fine.

- Rhyme or reason is not present on if the projectiles fire out at full-screen, or pathetically flick out and return

- Incredibly floaty, slippery controls feel like you're giving the suggestion to move, rather than moving.

- While the trailer shows the ability to slow time, this feature is not told to the player in any of the tutorial segments.

- Speaking of lack of communication, What the player is supposed to do in any given level is a total mystery, as the first level (Greed) was fine, the second (Aptly named “Anger”) seemingly-impossible, (as aiming at the flashing bit caused the enemy to snap across the screen and kill you...)., and the third? Enemy is seemingly invincible.

- If you die in a level, which seems impossible to not do as a result of the abysmal character handling, you are booted back to its door, meaning rather than just pushing "restart" you need to push up, grab your mouse, move it to "very" (more on that below) and go back in.

- The second difficulty is a non-descript “Very”, which adds to the pimpression this is either unfinished, and untested, or obtuse for the sake of being “Arty”.

- It apparently crashed while I was idling for Cards while at dinner.

Suggested Fixes:

- Give some direction to the player. Nothing I did felt like anything but luck.

- Refine the controls to a massive degree, taking the slipperiness out of lateral movement, and floatiness out of the vertical.

- Fix the button that even 30 seconds in-game shows as non-working, or otherwise map ESC to “Back”,

Verdict:

I stopped before the wanton rage set in, but think this is more than deserving of 6: Traumatically Toxic

...as from what I've seen, little testing was done, and it seems difficult and impenetrable for the sake of being both of those things.

I shall thus idle it for the remaining cards, and be moving on to something hopefully enjoyable.

David.

It's genuine enough.

Crisp and responsive in a very technical way.

this took me 9 years to 100% lol

I hate long-winded Steam reviews, but there is a lot to say about this one.

In my opinion, the timeslow effect was horribly implemented. When time returns to normal, all objects, including the player and enemies, get an insane acceleration. This issue is exacerbated by the camera being so zoomed in and, with the exception of the last boss, not accounting for enemies' position. This means that you will often be shooting at what you cannot see and, due to the aforementioned acceleration, enemies will fly at you from offscreen, which is impossible to react to due to the sluggish player movement. The solution to this is to ensure you remain in slow-mo, making the game feel slow and tedious.

Due to the difficulty, I suspected that some of the game physics might be tied to the refresh rate, and posts from 2015 in the game's discussion section confirmed this. At the time of writing, this hasn't been fixed. Changing the refresh rate to 60hz helped, but made the game feel even more sluggish.

Each level begins with a cutscene, which replays after every restart. Moving your character ends the cutscene early, but the game is active during this time, meaning you are moving blindly and it is possible you will already need to restart again by the time the camera focuses on the player.

Charging your attack washes out the screen to the point where you can't see the HUD at all.

Cool idea, poorly executed.

I bought this game on a whim since I felt like buying a game and I have a friend named David. This was a great experience and if anyone wants to try it and has two dollars to spare, you won't regret it.

People are complaining about the controls of this game and forget that this is a PHYSICS-based game which adds another layer to the game. It's an intentional design and it makes the game fun.