The game ran good *enough* for me with my high spec pc, so this negative review isn't actually going to be about that, but the optimization will likely be an issue for many. The game is funny, looks good, sounds good, but just barely misses the mark.

My real issue with the game is that it lies in a very strange place between too hard for casual players and yet the challenges and gameplay isn't quite right for high level speedrunning or completionists either.

I imagine this game is too fast paced for many, and frustrating when dying is very fast and often seemingly unfair. Maybe the Anger part was actually the player's anger. I'm used to this kind of constant repetition for challenges and completion, but I feel like most people aren't. If your goal is to play every level once and just get through the game, it's probably not that bad, but I don't play that way.

I went into the game going for 100% challenge/star completion but quickly realized that some of the challenges (which you need to do for new shoe unlocks) are fine at first glance but atrocious in practice. For example this game literally has no way to open doors without sending them flying and killing people behind it, yet asks you to complete certain levels without killing a single enemy, and worse it does so in a level where there are 10+ grenade throwing enemies which kill themselves and other enemies, which may or may not actually harm your pacifist progress but I gave up on that after 20 minutes of trying regardless of the grenades. It's like walking through a minefield that's in an apartment complex and the only way forward is through 20 exploding doors, but nobody is allowed to die. It seems heavily luck based but who knows maybe I missed something.

It also has missions where the challenge is to complete the mission without being hit, yet all the gun enemies are hitscan and you have no way to dodge other than to wait behind a wall and kick them around the corner. Do I complete the whole game and maybe find that one of the shoes lets me dodge bullets, and then make me go way back to do those challenges later? Maybe! I don't know! Comparing this to "I Am Your Beast" and other similar games, you could always do every challenge before even attempting the next level, which is ideal for completionists.

I sit somewhere on the line of recommended and not recommended, it's not for me but if none of the above applies to you then try it out.

The game ran good *enough* for me with my high spec pc, so this negative review isn't actually going to be about that, but the optimization will likely be an issue for many. The game is funny, looks good, sounds good, but just barely misses the mark. My real issue with the game is that it lies in a very strange place between too hard for casual players and yet the challenges and gameplay isn't quite right for high level speedrunning or completionists either. I imagine this game is too fast paced for many, and frustrating when dying is very fast and often seemingly unfair. Maybe the Anger part was actually the player's anger. I'm used to this kind of constant repetition for challenges and completion, but I feel like most people aren't. If your goal is to play every level once and just get through the game, it's probably not that bad, but I don't play that way. I went into the game going for 100% challenge/star completion but quickly realized that some of the challenges (which you need to do for new shoe unlocks) are fine at first glance but atrocious in practice. For example this game literally has no way to open doors without sending them flying and killing people behind it, yet asks you to complete certain levels without killing a single enemy, and worse it does so in a level where there are 10+ grenade throwing enemies which kill themselves and other enemies, which may or may not actually harm your pacifist progress but I gave up on that after 20 minutes of trying regardless of the grenades. It's like walking through a minefield that's in an apartment complex and the only way forward is through 20 exploding doors, but nobody is allowed to die. It seems heavily luck based but who knows maybe I missed something. It also has missions where the challenge is to complete the mission without being hit, yet all the gun enemies are hitscan and you have no way to dodge other than to wait behind a wall and kick them around the corner. Do I complete the whole game and maybe find that one of the shoes lets me dodge bullets, and then make me go way back to do those challenges later? Maybe! I don't know! Comparing this to "I Am Your Beast" and other similar games, you could always do every challenge before even attempting the next level, which is ideal for completionists. I sit somewhere on the line of recommended and not recommended, it's not for me but if none of the above applies to you then try it out.