it was a great experience. thank you one-man army

It is a fun game. It is very short. Get when on a sale

An Hour Long Game, Best to Beat it on Easy first and Change Difficulty to Revenge/Hell on the Last chapter with all skills unlocked without needing to play the entire game from the Start, the achievements are based on kill counts and isn't hard, all you need is some dedication towards a single weapon until you get all the Gold Medals.

It is a good idea to make a short game showcasing latest graphics and technologies, almost like a movie with latest special effects. Short because it is just to present great visual show and also at a very affordable price of a movie, not more than 20 bucks.

Mixed.

All of this review, is from the time that, I purchased or acquired bright memory as a demo and forgot about it from either a humble bundle. Either way, I postponed playing it because the big ole' DEMO was attached with the game. In the beginning what I found from the first half of the demo was an incredibly polished, niche, action FPS devil may cry chinese shooter with rough edges but a dress up companion and a short story.

While I cannot remember the earliest iterations of the bright memory demo, i knew i enjoyed it for the polish and shine of the demo.

I cannot say as much as it's come full release with its new issues I'll get too in a bit. But, for an individual release, I'd say, this is the near dark souls level of FPS games, blending shiny polished effects, with john-woo style shoot outs and sword play.

From a controls standpoint, perhaps I am getting too old for this ♥♥♥♥, but, I cannot handle the high-octane, sword, slash, gun-play mechanics that combine crouching tiger hidden dragon with the gunkata nonsense of equilibrium. Okay its a stretch, but still, since you are equipped with a special suit, your average every dress up doll girl can double jump, dodge and vault enemies into slow-down high slashing blade whips until they are sliced down into the freshest sashimi.

and then a few glitches, game breaking bugs and all around annoyances that lead me to remove the game and drop it. While my temporary erection for the FPS single man developer games coming out pricked up at the sight of the every woman pale skin of no determinable ethnicity one way or another.. it slowly withered once I kept losing track of my character and the hit detection from the blade went out the window. It's a frustration.

I had high hopes during the demo, but, once the release of the game came to light, I hopped back in. The controls don't always gel with me totally. while WASD is pretty good on my non-dominant hand, curling my fingers to the shift+double-tap in one or two directions can't flow in the way that i'd like and it doesn't quite feel as intuitive to me as other games with dodge mechanics. Maybe its better on a pad? but I'd like to feel second hand.

While the end goal is for pretty girl to eliminate forces of evil using a growing repertoire of actions and skills, I fell short of trying to jump in, land the necessary hits or combinations for the combat to feel a good flow. In many cases, I will try a combination of light sword attacks, launch for my character to awkwardly leap skyward and unleash a fury of attacks on an enemy. This often happens flawlessly, but, more and more, the mechanic activates, launching up without proper hit detection from the initiated attack.

I will often launch, hitting nothing but air, then get hit like a pinata from the air and lose health. weapons in general vary in both ammo and usefulness, while there are a wide variety of grenade, projectiles and light ammo weapons, trying to switch weapons can often be a pain, I miss the hot swap of older games.

In a word.. bright memory should be praised for its polish and the development from the individual (i've been told) whose poured hours and hours into the product. However, the game bugs on a 'finished' product cannot be ignored. I often find myself clipping, dropping and missing hits from my blades. weapons after awhile seem to do fewer and fewer damage and the dodging functions while novel, run out during some times where timing and mastery of sticking and moving.

I'd like better dodging stamina. I'd like a bit more of a lock on feature for my light blade. I'd like better hit detection. or maybe i'd like to enjoy a game that doesn't take massive leaps in Nintendo hard logic to pad out the length of the paper thin story.

Could I recommend the game? Honestly, no. It's unique in having both sword and gun play, some navigation over rooftops and explorable areas that remind me of tomb raider. but, the levels seem apologetic, as if the developer had to sigh and introduce us to another set piece of tops or electrified water to justify a rarely used swinging or whip mechanic, then getting excited once the blood pumping boss battles come back into the fray. fast and focused; tight execution, the boss battles often play out like a game of punch-out. dodge or parry when you can until you learn the pattern, then execute with your heaviest or most damaging attack. increasing game difficulty changes the output of damage and some of the parry/dodging needs to be tighter.

honestly, increasing difficulty in a action-based shooter seems pointless instead of the push over easy mode that is meant for those interested in the story and completing the game. Will there be a sequel? I don't think so, could there be more DLC to further the side-questing or other options surrounding our protagonist? God I hope not. The game plays out..largely on rails and once you have gotten past the glitter and glam behind the mechanics, most of them are forgotten as soon as they are picked up and fail to stack on one another. I failed to 'build' on my character to anything uniquely damaging or sincerely over powered with some draw backs. I think there is plenty of options for a similar polished high action game if it were playtested more thoroughly with the right developer, but, for a single experience its largely forgettable.

Unfortunately it's VERY short, but what it does, it does it very well. If you like guns and parrying, it's worth a playthrough.

Some things to note:
-Crashing and game breaking bugs (I fell out of bounds once simply by using a skill).
-Even the hardest difficulty can be cleared in one sitting.
-If you are the type that MUST get 100% achievements, there are achievemets for defeating 150 enemies with specific weapons (such as the AR) but there aren't 150 enemies in the game, there are like 130, so even a full playthrough using exclusively that gun will not be enough for those achievements.

Buen juego, disparar echar para adelante, acción y luce bien. Había comprado el demo hace tiempo y me interesó la idea de apoyar a los desarrolladores.