All this because Hank hated boombox music

I was in no way expecting what loaded when I clicked on this game. I have to say I'm extremely pleasantly surprised at both the violent humor and the art style. This is def a gem to keep around.

4/10, mediocre and overrated

-Game is too easy, even on harder difficulties you can beat most levels on your first try. Most arena levels become way too easy after you complete them, giving no reason to replay them.

-Enemy variety is nonexistent - Most enemies behave identically to each other, their only difference being their appearance and slightly different stats. Imagine playing DOOM, but the only enemies are zombies and Imps, that's what this is like. There are a few unique enemies, but many only appear in a single level, like Wildlanders, which only appear in 1 arena level, or Lamenters, and Dissonance Golems which are only in the final campaign level. There are shield enemies which were a good idea implemented badly, you're supposed to kill them from behind, but they turn too fast so the only way to deal with them is to spam melee attacks until they get stun-locked, so all they do is slow the game to a crawl.

--Bosses - I will skip the bosses I have nothing to say about
-Mag Bandit has way too much health, and the only weapons you get to fight him with are weak melee weapons, not only that, but you have to fight him twice.
-Church and Jorge are decent, but it's really telling that one of the few good bosses gets reused 3 times.
-Sheriff, Christoff, and Hank are all too weak, if you fight them with melee, they get stun-locked so you can't lose as long as you spam left-click, if you fight them with guns, they die in like 5 hits.
-Crackpots dies too fast, if he had more health the fight would be good.
-Hive is good, but goes on for too long, it takes like 15 minutes to kill it.
-Phobos is alright, but underwhelming for a final boss, like they focused too much on the flashy visuals and the fight itself isn't very good.
-Grand Steward is the only boss that's good.

--Bad weapon balancing
-Melee weapons are slow and have short range, which is expected, but they also deal LESS damage than most guns, and you can't move when attacking with one, making them boring to use.
-ARs outclass every other weapon category, melee for the reasons stated prior, SMGs are just weaker and less accurate ARs, shotguns don't have enough ammo and the higher damage doesn't matter because most enemies die quickly anyway, snipers are WAY too slow and don't even ignore tac-bars, MGs and flamers hinder movement too much and run out of ammo fast, grenade launchers are pathetically weak, and rocket launchers are the worst aspects of snipers and grenade launchers combined.
-There are many useless weapons, like the snipers, or the Tasers and Flare Guns which are worse than pistols in every way. There are also cryo guns that do little damage and again, most enemies die in around 3 hits anyway, so why go to extra effort of freezing them?

-Most weapons not based on real-life weapons look horrendous.

-Sweetspot - When using guns there will be a small spot in the direction you're aiming, shooting enemies inside this spot will deal extra damage and ignore tac-bars, it's a good idea, but it's never utilized, you never need to use it.

-Story is bad, it's made vague to give the illusion of it being deep, but it isn't and is only made like that because writing a real story would take effort.

--ARENA - Arena mode involves starting weak and getting stronger as you progress, when you start an arena save you can select one of several Origins, which are basically characters with different abilities and stats

-Imprints - You get an Imprint after completing arena mode, some Origins require that you have 1-3 imprints to play as them, which means you'll need to replay the entire mode over and over again just to try out the different origins, and this isn't helped by the levels being repetitive and bloated in length, which I'll get to soon.

--Some origin abilities weren't thought out well, there are multiple instances of this, but I will omit them from the review so it doesn't become too long to post.

-Arena mode is too long for what it is - All arena waves are very repetitive, lots of them being identical to previous waves, the game never tries changing the patterns of what enemy types spawn and when, it only ever adds a few more of the same enemies you've already seen. There are also 5 story levels, which play like campaign levels instead of arenas, they are poorly designed and not difficult at all, the only thing they add is a story which could've easily been put into cutscenes instead.

--Arena levels - I will skip the levels I have nothing to say about, prior criticisms regarding enemies and arena mode as a whole still apply.

-Pitstop - The goal of this level is to protect 4 gas pumps, the levels design is a large, open area, on the left of the level there is a car that acts like a wall, and enemies spawning on the left of the level will often run behind it and sit there forever, there is a chance for a "Full-scale assault" to occur, where every enemy runs to and attacks the gas pumps, and the idea might've been for the enemies to build up behind the car for that, but even if that's true it doesn't matter because that rarely happens and you'll be spending most of your time sitting around that one spot because that's where the enemies are.
-Slaughter Time - Enemies here attack with slow-moving projectiles that ignore your tac-bar and do decent damage, this is a good idea that should've been in more levels instead of only this one. The design of the level is fine, except during infinite waves where there will be a hole in the middle, if you fall in, you lose instantly, regardless of how many lives you have left, this is a terrible idea.
-The Haunting - Most of this level is fighting the same ghost enemy over and over again, with the levels other enemies only appearing at the very end of the waves.
-The Heist - Worst level in the game, you have set a drill to open a vault, and a wave will begin once it's set, the vault will be drilled open after 3 minutes, allowing you to go inside and collect a reward, there are up to 3 vaults, each one giving higher value rewards than the last, the waves consist of spamming a single enemy type, the other enemies in this level only appearing at the end of a wave, except for one that appears rarely during waves, so if you want to get all rewards, you have to spend 9 whole minutes fighting the exact same enemies over and over again, which is extremely boring. This is the only level that has no way to replenish lost lives, and the only difficult part is at the end, after you've already spent 9 minutes doing this ♥♥♥♥, so if you lose a life, it's better to restart the level and save your lives for the end. The design of the level itself is also awful, it's one big, empty room, there is also a big, empty outdoors area, but there are enemies that stay out there to attack you if you leave the building, so there's no reason to ever go out of it, the level also just ends if you look around outside, like it wasn't even finished.
-Hard Sell - This level has some good ideas, like it being the only level where most enemies will wait outside of the main area and build up their numbers before all attacking, and the Sniper and grenade launcher enemies, but the Snipers suffer from the fact that this games sniper rifles are a joke as stated earlier.
-Nexus Facility - Nothing to say except that the 3rd, 4th, and 5th areas of this level are the only good level designs in the entire arena mode.


-S3LF Eater campaign - Side story that adds like 4 tiny rooms in the hub world, it starts when you activate a thing in one of the rooms, and a new boss enemy will randomly appear in the hub world, he has A LOT of health, and can kill you instantly in a single attack, regardless of how many lives you have, and you need to kill it to progress, not only that, but in order to complete this campaign, you have to fight it SEVEN TIMES! This boss is already horrendous on its own, and requiring the player to fight it 7 times is inexcusable.