Recent reviews by flea eater

I've only gotten through ME1 so far. I'm on to ME2 and 3 soon, but let me tell you that if you've made the mistake of not getting this trilogy sooner, then get it now.
ME1 alone has about 30 hours of gameplay in it I reckon. Plus triple that if you plan on replaying the game a few times to try different paths and explore lost opportunities. Throughout my 26 hour playtime I made many hard decisions, and every one of them was incredibly gripping. I felt like lives were at stake, and I felt an immense weight on my shoulders, a deep-seated compulsion to save everyone I had come to know over the course of the campaign. But saving everyone isn't always possible. Sometimes you have to choose.
I chose. Sometimes I doubted my decisions, sometimes I wished I could have done things differently to see if things would have played out better.

That's what this game is. You're Commander Shepherd, and the weight of an entire galaxy is on your shoulders.

Two days in and I've made some of the worst spaghetti imaginable. I absolutely hate my creations. They look terrible, they make me hurt just thinking about them. I wasn't cut out for this life but I love my spaghetti. It's a mess, but it's my mess; made with love.

I was hoping to like this, but the controls and the physics are both awful. Things which are sort of important for a game like this.
It's free though, so knock yourself out.

bro please never make another game again if this the ♥♥♥♥ you come up with 💀💀

I'd give this a middle review if I could. I do like the concept of the game and I think I could easily put 10-20+ hours in if it weren't for some performance issues. I'm not sure if this is a problem other people are having with the game, but when I have more than 40+ nodes I start to notice a significant drop in FPS even when lowering available graphics settings.
Overall I like it. The graphics are simple yet effective and nice to look at, the sound design is equally simple and not a sore on the ears, and the gameplay while also simple manages to be captivating, satisfying, and relaxing. The game is, in-fact, simple, easy to pick up, and relaxing. I didn't even notice an hour and a half had gone by before I stopped to write this review. It is an incredibly easy game to play on a second monitor whilst you've got a podcast, youtube video, movie etc going on.

No tutorial. Difficult to play a game when all you can do is just keep hitting quick-battle, getting shot down, checking the controls again, rinse and repeat. Not a great way to learn. Will be refunding and only coming back if a proper tutorial is added.

I wasn't really sure about whether or not I'd play this again. I got about half-way through the game and just got bored and stopped. Today I decided maybe I'd try to git gud and p-rank the game on violent.
That decision made me enjoy this game so much more. It made me value the mechanics at my disposal more, forced me to learn new tricks and implement them into my gameplay, and it gave me an opportunity to do some really cool ♥♥♥♥.
Sure, you could go through the game using only the shotgun and doing projectile boost after projectile boost because that's the only trick you learned, getting Ds and Cs on most levels... or you could git gud and use everything you have at your disposal and tame this beast of a game.
It's up to you to decide.

This game was bad, now it's worse. Unfortunate. Practically abandoned at this point, the dev has made no meaningful contributions to actually improve the game in a long time. Don't buy this game.

I'm not sure there's a dev team out there more respectable than GSG. They've made the mother of all indie games. This game is a true labor of love, and it has proven itself more than worthy of praise.

I have to say that every new update since rival escalation has been either terrible or just disappointing. Every new monster has sucked more and more fun out of the game. I don't even kill corruptors anymore because they're mind-numbingly boring to fight, along with taking ages. Rival escalation was the peak of this game and I kinda miss the simplicity. All these new monsters are trying to add challenges where they just aren't needed. I wish they'd get rid of septic spreaders and whiptails and replace them with some reworked (or even a couple NEW) machine core events. We've been sorely lacking new events for a while.

A fantastic tactical shooter. Maybe the best tactical shooter since SWAT 4. That's all that I need to say, really. It's still only in beta, too. Can you imagine what this game will look like in the future?