Time Recoil

[b][i]Neon Chrome[/i] was a home run for me, so I had high hopes for [i]Time Recoil[/i].[/b] 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. [i]Essentially, as you rack up sequential kills, you gain one-off abilities.[/i] Two kills gets you a dash, etc. Each kill progressively slows time down [i]Super Hot[/i] style. [b]Pros:[/b] +The mechanic is fun enough +It's fun in bursts +The music is pretty good [b]Cons:[/b] -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 [i]Neon Chrome[/i] -Could use more polish [b]I like it enough to recommend it, but it isn't groundbreaking.[/b]

Time Recoil is Hotline Miami for slow people like me. It is delightful to barge into a room full of guards and slow-mo snipe a bunch of them like you are Neo.

I played Neon Chrome and loved it, so when I saw this game, by the same developers, I thought to myself, "Must buy!" 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...

TIME RECOIL is an interesting game. It combines the top-down perspective of NEON CHROME with the slow-motion/bullet-time combat tactics of SUPERHOT. Just like NEON CHROME, the graphics are slick and the music captures the tension of the story very well. You play as Alexa, a woman endowed by a laboratory accident with the ability to survive time travel and dilate time in combat. Chaining kills can prolong the time dilation for a tactical advantage. Larger kill-chains unlock additional dash/blast abilities. Each individual mission may not take long to complete, but the challenge lies in chaining kills in just the right ways to use the right abilities at the right moments to complete the mission. It's important to note that one does not always have to kill every guard on a mission to succeed. Fortunately, the game has adjustable difficulty levels and mappable controls. The short mission lengths mean that failing won't set you back much timewise. It look me 8 hours to finish ...

If 10Tons does one thing well it is top down shooters. This is a fun game with fast and fluid gameplay. The idea is that you rack up combo points by getting kills. Each Kill slows down time. You have 4 special abilities you can trigger by spending those combo points. Mechanically, it is a blast. The story / dialog is pretty minimal and a bit all over the place, but you don't play these games for the story. The overall length is pretty short, I finished the story in 2 sittings. However there are time trials and other difficulties to play for those looking to extend their playtime. Overall, it's worth the 10-15 bucks they want for it. I enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone who likes top down shooters. I do hope they add some extra modes to further extend replayability though.

[quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/6142328/][b]Like this Review? Follow The Cpt Froggy Club Curator Page for plenty more![/b][/url][/quote] Time Recoil: ~~~~~~~~~ The world as we know it is now controlled by one man; a scientist who has invented a machine called the Time Heater. At first, most of the countries were brushing off his rhetoric and warnings, until Paris was totally destroyed by the Time Eater machine. At that point, most of the European countries succumbed to the mad scientist, Mr. Time. A small group of resistants operating in a base somewhere in the Paris rubble are about to launch a daring rescue. The target is one of Mr Time’s leading scientists who gained some sort of power after an experiment went south. The challenge is, they have to travel back in time to rescue her. Is she the only one who can help to stop this mad scientist? Time Recoil is an action / top-down shooter where you take control of Alexa, who was once part of the leading team of ...

Finished the campaing, fun shooter which have same problems as SUPER HOT but does some things better. + Different type of enemies In SUPER HOT they were all just red guys, here we have melee, pistol, smg, shotgun, granades, RPGs, same with armors etc. etc. Could easily enjoy playing editor-made missions. + Good music, kudos to those who made them. - 10€ for 2 hours Yes, I remember that SUPER HOT demanded a lot more money for 2h gameplay but now it's the same thing: Play the campaign and thank you for playing just so this game would be 2 hours long and you can't refund it on Steam. Yes, there are more difficulty levels but it's just like eating a candy and then it's gone and you're hungry again 15 minutes later. If they would add editor-mode with Steam Workshop support I would turn my thumb up.[spoiler] (Prehaps you could recruit that suspisious lady who suprisingly stops by in your office, I think she's fast and gets the job done in no-time *heh*.)[/spoiler] And because this is j...

I'll start with the good. There's a pleasant vibe of "building the resistance from almost nothing" similar to XCOM2. The story is interesting, even if hard to follow because of the time travel, paradoxes, multiple timelines, flashbacks etc. Music is fitting, graphics are passable (the orange suit evokes some cheesy spy movie connotations). Controls are adequately responsive and levels restart quickly once failed. The story is more fleshed out compared to similar titles by this company. The game is short. If it stopped at that I would have [i]no[/i] problem with it. Do Normal once, bye. But this game attempts to make up for its lack of content with difficult achievements, which is the greatest design sin in my eyes. Time attack times are simply unreasonable. Speedrunning is required - and I abhor all speedrunning. And even completing a level on Hardcore or Murderous - nevermind the time - can be a huge chore. Enemies react almost instantly, weapon drops are random and rare. Restarting ...

I've loved 10tons games for a long time so bought this as soon as Steam notified me it was on sale. This is why you should buy it too: + great soundtrack + quick and fluid gameplay + chaining kills (which slows down time) and using your abilities to destroy the level is amazing -- this mixes up swift reactions and also slower planning + when you end the level by calling a wormhole you can just wreck stuff This is great.

Core gameplay is broken garbage with a lot of very questionable design decisions. - Whole game is about getting combo kills in slow mo but with fixed, limited, infrequent enemy spawns this just doesn't work - You get an ability at 2, 4, 6, and 8 kills in a row. If you don't activate it the next one will overwrite what you have, however the abilities are very different and you can barely control what you're going to use next, it just sucks - Enemies randomly and rarely drop weapons; RNG can decide if you breeze through a level or end up being completely unarmed - Enemy reaction times are instantaneous which is just not fun to play against and often feels unfair - A LOT of deaths are from enemies shooting you from off-screen before you can even see them - Levels tend to get longer and longer and almost everyone is one-hit-kill, including you - Tedious gameplay, every level is the same thing with a slightly different objective but it's all the same. I gave up by mid chapter 5 on Hardcore...