this is truly the gorbinos quest of mech games

Oh boy. Spoiler free review. Personally I love this game. I am going to drop the positives first.

The atmosphere and quality of the locations is amazing. In my opinion much better than cruelty squad even so far. Three areas in particular blew me away the first time I entered them. There are some absolutely fantastic weird moments in this game. I am not going to spoil them, but they stand out a lot more in this game due to it not looking as insane as cruelty squad on average.

The dialogue is very funny. I am not surprised by the quality of the story line. The designs of characters are also amazing.

The game play is sensational and maybe the strongest part of the game. On foot movement and mech movement are both extremely satisfying and responsive. The tank control take a while to get used to, but you feel unstoppable once mastered. You feel like a god, nothing is comparable.

The overall aesthetic, which seems like a toned down prequel to cruelty squad, works very well. The game looks amazing (For its art style).

Here are my critiques:

The areas are great but feel empty. I was very disappointing with how many areas had cool little houses or huts that have absolutely nothing in them. It just feels disappointing to explore for the most part. Some areas like versitan residential are amazing and densely packed with content. Other areas like the abandoned highway could use more things to grab or people to talk to. I know the game isn't complete, I would like to see more density. I would also like to see more areas. There are already a good amount but i was disappointing when I found all the areas. I said to myself, "Thats it?"

The upgrades to the mech feel underwhelming. The base state of the mech is so overpowered that all attachments feel like they do not do that much. This will not effect the average player that much, but for speed runs it will never be optimal to equip anything to the mech do to the time loss that creates. All this does is make the speed runs less interesting. I was disappointing to see that most of the discover able parts are just slight upgrades instead of actual major game play changes.

The mech combat is flawed. The game play is similar to crus where if you get the drop on the enemy you evaporate them, but if they lock on you you are toast. This leads to the optimal game play looking like the player not taking much damage and blasting enemy mechs out of existence before they get the chance to respond. Trying to fight a mech fairly will always result in your death. I don't know how they would make a more challenging mech boss, it can be cheesed. Making an actual challenging mech boss with actual gameplay would require a complete rework with mech combat, making cheesing less effective and the damage they do less devastating. Maybe give mech boosting invincibility or something to add depth. The potential to be flying around with the amazing movement dodging bullets and dog fighting op mechs is too high. I would hate to see it blundered.

It is very hard to get into this game. A tutorial would be too much hand holding for a CS game so that's not an option. I think some in game cannon help sheet should be implemented at some point. The almost debug menu looking help menu right now doesn't really match the game. I'm sure that will be fixed at some point. Also bringing up the tab menu is broken.

So far the game is great albeit too expensive for the average gamer, it has potential to be incredible though. Needs a couple of tweeks. I hope Ville takes his time with this game I am willing to wait.

As of right now, out of all of my friends, I don't think I could recommend this game to either of them.

I hope this game will be good one day
I tried it hoping the some more annoyingly obscure aspects of CS would be refined, but instead, this game is all over the place with a vague hint of what you're supposed to accomplish, which would be fine for an open world game if it simultaneously didn't have exactly one way of progressing. The economy is annoying and obsolete as there is a not-so-secret stash once again that everyone is aware of, as the only way to play this game is with a wiki open on a second monitor.

The dialogue is entertaining, very good
The world is alien and peaks my interest
...It's unfortunately not good enough for me to put up with another second of this games mech combat
I get it's supposed to be a joke that the controls are intentionally wonky, but I have genuinely never had such a nauseating and frustrating experience with a game before. Compared to a game like Getting Over It, which has intentionally awkward controls, they're still responsive if difficult. Aiming in a mech in this game feels like trying to run in a dream.

Way too overpriced for the vague promise of this game being good one day, I would value it at 15 or so euros __as an investment__.
In short: The parts of this game that I currently like makes me unironically wish this was a visual novel.