Chaos Domain Review (N4SWS)
First off I'm a complete sucker for 2D platformers, I absolutely love them. I adore the whole concept of them, which is why it hurts to give this game a bad review. Look, this game tried - at least sort of? Let me start off with what I did like about it:
The one shot one kill idea. You take one hit you die, the enemy takes one hit they die. It's a cool concept and I found it to be quite entertaining.
The guns. The guns were also great, and felt like they packed a punch.
Aside from that though the rest just isn't very good.
The environments are very bland. Every level looks very similar to the next. I can't speak for the later levels as I only finished the game about 20%, but the first fifth of the game at least all looks almost exactly the same. And that's a shame.
Same with the enemies. They're also all the same, with a couple exceptions of a special enemy that takes like 3 hits to kill, the enemy type is almost identical through and through.
The mechanics are pretty bad. You can't even aim diagonally without walking forwards or backwards, which makes the gameplay feel infuriating at times.
The graphics menu is barebones and offers nothing to change ot tweak.
In co-op when one person walks too far ahead, or one person is too far behind, the game kills you, taking one of your three lives to spawn you next to the other person. REALLY? Why not just make an invisible wall you can't walk through until the player catches up? - which brings me to my last point.
The game DOES create an invisible wall that you can't proceed through; more than half the time, but ONLY when one of the co-op players has already died, lost all 3 lives, and cannot spawn the rest of the level. Which means if I'm still alive and I can proceed to beat the level, I actually can't. Because the game puts up an invisible wall. What a glitch. This is inexcusable, and all on its own has ruined the game for me.
You can't release a game like this, in this condition and then ask $10 from people. It's not right.
This game could have been really great with just a bit of polish and game testing. But since they decided to opt out on all of that, I can't recommend this game. 3.5/10