Hard Bullet Review (chiki)
Got a couple hours on this game. Time to leave a review no one will read
Positives
-Very VERY good gore, immaculate, disgusting, and decently optimized
-Wide selection of guns and melee
-Nice slow-mo and decent movement
-Gunplay (Good Parts) the guns have a couple mechanics unique to this game that feel great. One handed pumping and being able to wield most weapons with one hand is great. High quality models, cool effects.
-Npcs (Good Parts) The npcs work great, you can grab them, throw them, shoot them, and steal their guns. Hitboxes work fine and there's little bugs with them
Negatives
-Probably wondering why I don't recommend this game, just keep reading
-Sfx, the sounds of guns, knives, punches, voices, etc are booboo in this game. For guns, they're super quiet and lack punch and most of them sound nearly identical. Knives/Melee, and punching have the same issues. The voices are half decent but there's maybe 2 lines in the entire game and when its just grunting and screaming it kinda gets annoying
-Melee gameplay in general, this is kinda rough to critique because the gameplay is hard but this really needs more work. The slashing is completely unresponsive and feels like nothing. It feels like swiping at them with a blunt object that suddenly cuts their limbs off. Stabbing is okay just needs some work, too easy to go in and out of people so it feels more like clipping into them than stabbing. Punching is fine just suffers from the sfx issue
-Guns/Gunplay (Bad parts). Despite having variety most of the game's guns feel identical. No differing damage values at least from what I could tell. Don't know if its realism or something but all the guns seem to do the same damage. The reloading is ok just needs some options to change keybinds. The recoil feels really floaty but its serviceable. Lever action rifles are terrible, sorry to the devs but the priming should really be simplified. Make it similar to pumping or automatic with a button press. Should really vault them for now.
-Npcs (Bad Parts). My main gripe with the npcs is their weapons, for a game with a bunch of guns giving the npcs only 4 or 5 is pretty dumb. Don't know if its performance or something still a strange choice. Their aiming and pathfinding is also not great, I get the game is meant to be a sort of power fantasy but sometimes it feels like they can barely walk
Final Thoughts
-Overall I think this game has huge potential. I originally refunded this game but decided to rebuy it and still don't regret it. But in this game's current state I really can't recommend it especially to a general audience, sandbox games are already hard to market but this game has a pretty limited sandbox. Everything about this game sort of feels half-baked and doesn't have a lot of variety. I hope the devs keep working on this game because I truly see a great game in a couple years (by a couple years i mean like 1-2, don't make this another ready or not) 5.7/10