Speedrunning crack.

There's something to enjoy in this game at every level of FPS competency and inclination for speedrunning optimizations. For casual players, you only need to do reasonably well on something like 60% of levels. The story is quite campy and intentionally "cringe", but I think it's a perfect amount of "owning up to" the cringe. I had very few negative moments within the story, though if you wish to skip it, you can with a fast forward button (not an instant skip but close enough).

If you're more inclined to hunt the Ace/"platinum" times, you'll find the shortcuts very intriguing and fun, as many of the levels are intentionally created to allow for several possible time saves (the game by default hints you toward at least one major time save, but you can turn that off if you'd rather find them yourself). Honestly, I think every player should at least attempt to try for Ace on each level, they're quite doable when you see the shortcut that the game hints at, and they're quite exhilarating to pull off. And finally, for enthusiasts, there are red/"dev" medals for completing a level in under a hidden time (or just look it up lol) which is generally quite faster than the Ace medal.

For the truly insane, there are community mods to add 3 tiers of medal above Red, and include more dedicated speedrunning tools such as x/y-axis speed, viewing angle, map coordinates, number of attempts, fastest session time, time delta between PB and recently finished run, etc. Quite frankly, without consulting the speedrunning discord or very niche tutorials, you probably have near-zero chance of getting the Emerald/Amethyst/Sapphire medals otherwise. And honestly, I don't plan on looking into getting Emerald+ on everything because most of those optimizations are insane and too unwieldy for me to use consistently.

The music is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good. Holy moly it's just as addicting as the gameplay. Machine Girl dropped bangers for this soundtrack.

100% recommend this game, the story is probably the weakest part of the whole package (yet still enjoyable). Excluding the insane (in a good way) global leaderboards/community speedrunners but they're not really something I can criticize/talk about because a) I don't particularly care about doing weirdo physics-busting tricks, and b) it would pop up eventually because of the nature of this gameplay.

Speedrunning crack. There's something to enjoy in this game at every level of FPS competency and inclination for speedrunning optimizations. For casual players, you only need to do reasonably well on something like 60% of levels. The story is quite campy and intentionally "cringe", but I think it's a perfect amount of "owning up to" the cringe. I had very few negative moments within the story, though if you wish to skip it, you can with a fast forward button (not an instant skip but close enough). If you're more inclined to hunt the Ace/"platinum" times, you'll find the shortcuts very intriguing and fun, as many of the levels are intentionally created to allow for several possible time saves (the game by default hints you toward at least one major time save, but you can turn that off if you'd rather find them yourself). Honestly, I think every player should at least attempt to try for Ace on each level, they're quite doable when you see the shortcut that the game hints at, and they're quite exhilarating to pull off. And finally, for enthusiasts, there are red/"dev" medals for completing a level in under a hidden time (or just look it up lol) which is generally quite faster than the Ace medal. For the truly insane, there are community mods to add 3 tiers of medal above Red, and include more dedicated speedrunning tools such as x/y-axis speed, viewing angle, map coordinates, number of attempts, fastest session time, time delta between PB and recently finished run, etc. Quite frankly, without consulting the speedrunning discord or very niche tutorials, you probably have near-zero chance of getting the Emerald/Amethyst/Sapphire medals otherwise. And honestly, I don't plan on looking into getting Emerald+ on everything because most of those optimizations are insane and too unwieldy for me to use consistently. The music is so fucking good. Holy moly it's just as addicting as the gameplay. Machine Girl dropped bangers for this soundtrack. 100% recommend this game, the story is probably the weakest part of the whole package (yet still enjoyable). Excluding the insane (in a good way) global leaderboards/community speedrunners but they're not really something I can criticize/talk about because a) I don't particularly care about doing weirdo physics-busting tricks, and b) it would pop up eventually because of the nature of this gameplay.