Fashion Police Squad Review (Vexens)
Oh, how I wanted to enjoy this game.
People loved to level the complaint that doom eternal "forces you to change weapons for enemies".
I never agreed with that and found myself to get a long just fine with using whatever gun or tool felt good to use.
In FPS every enemy is hard locked into only taking damage from whatever gun(s) the game wants you to use. And some of them just aren't fun.
Late game has an enemy that requires you to throw 5-7 gnomes at them, wait for the gnomes to whittle down a bar of health/armor, then switch to the first rifle, use its alternate attack which is a sticky bomb, THEN hurry and attack the enemy with your rifle before the timer from the sticky bomb ends. ALL while dodging a huge mess of projectiles, aoes, and enemies bumping you on scooters and sometimes chaining you up.
Not to mention the dubstep enemy which is a bulletsponge with an AOE that covers the entirety of the ground of whatever arena you're in. This enemy can only be damaged by ONE gun.
Except for the rocket launcher which they give you at the end of the game almost, but then they also only dole out the ammo for it when they specifically want you to use it.
If you end up buying this, don't be surprised if by level 7 or 8 out of 13, you're feeling "I'm just over this". Level design is barebones to nonexistent. The jokes are just cringy and NEVER. STOP.
There's only 5 weapons. 1 is a throwable used for only 2 enemies and isn't fun to use. 1 is the rocket launcher which you don't get til the last few levels and barely get to use.
Also the final boss is an absolute joke. It's not hard, not at all, but it's an absolute slog and just boring. The final boss took me about 10-15 minutes, and that's because I would have to wait for an npc to deliver me THREE ROCKETS AT A TIME. The three rockets would do about 15% of the boss' health, then I'd have to wait until the npc came back. Rinse. And. Repeat.
If you played the demo last year during the steam fest, I'm not being hyperbolic when I say you've witnessed the best the game has to offer.
There's sooooo many good boomer shooters available right now. Do not waste your time with this one. Do not let the immediate style fool you. Buy anything else.