About Recoil Zombies:
Neon Chrome was a home run for me, so I had high hopes for Time Recoil. This title is much smaller in scope, and polish, unfortunately. I still think the mechanic is fresh and fun, though. The whole thing gets bogged down with the story, which I just skip at this point. Essentially, as you rack up sequential kills, you gain one-off abilities. Two kills gets you a dash, etc. Each kill progressively slows time down Super Hot style. Pros: +The mechanic is fun enough +It’s fun in bursts +The music is pretty good Cons: -I’ve gotten shot from enemies off screen many times, and that is a cardinal sin -The story is forgettable, and bogs down flow -Not sure how replayable this is, particularly in comparison to Neon Chrome -Could use more polish I like it enough to recommend it, but it isn’t groundbreaking. There are some fair criticisms of this game, the plot isn’t super exciting, the graphics are not the best out there and the game is short. But this game isn’t about plot, it is about puzzle like levels and action movie style time slowing/stopping shoot outs. I enjoyed zipping around blasting away bad guys and often getting blasted away myself as I got a feel for each level, worked on my skills and sorted out how to attain each objective. There were quite a few levels that felt quite rewarding to beat. Well, it’s like they say: past performance isn’t indictive of future performance. Time Recoil, mechanically, isn’t very good. The game’s one-hit one-kill playstyle is unforgiving for gamepad users, and the mechanic of comboing kills to keep your slo-mo meter filled is frankly unsatisfying. If you lose the meter for any reason (got hung up on the e edge of a wall while moving to the next room, for instance), you may as well just restart the current level. The game relies so heavily on the death combo mechanic, in fact, that every other element of the game, from gunplay to melee, suffers from its presence. For a developer who produced two excellent twin stick shooters using this very same engine, this game turned out to be the black sheep of the family. Go play Neon Chrome or Jydge instead. If you already have, well… I don’t know, get a hobby like knitting or something.
