Final Directive

the Boy is here.

A very cool Indie game with an eye catching art style. The game has a fixed difficulty level thats challenging but not overwhelming. This makes for a fun and engaging game experience. I would definitely recommend to anyone who enjoys this style of game or to anyone who is looking to try something different.

Saying Final Directive is a story-driven game might be a bit of a far fetch, but given the price of the game I'm not going to complain. The gameplay is nothing new but it's tight and pretty challenging at parts, it doesn't overstay its welcome (story is 90 min), the music is great for its purpose, the sprites look really nice and the man behind the comic art is none other than the superb Soup(-erb). Again, I wouldn't say the game is story-driven, but I'm a big fan of Soup and I thought he did a lovely job with the comics. Lastly, I'd like to add that the game has some notable bugs, mainly roller enemies gaining speed offscreen as well as the ability to ohko you upon collision and the wall boss creating an invisible bulletproof barrier when firing its laser on top of having a really questionnable hitbox. Still a good game, still a good time, love what this small dev team managed to make and I'm looking forward to their next project.

Lot of bugs, on ubuntu linux 18.10 with radeon mesa drivers. On an older graphics card, I could not get it to run at all, despite meeting system specifications. With newer computer, there were all sorts of shader issues, and the initial splash screen kept freezing up until I hit ESC to cancel. I know this goes for very cheap and regularly deeply-discounted, but I do not think it is worth it. There are other twin-stick shooters, and the comic-book style cutscenes do not make this game worth purchasing. This game uses the Unity game engine, and it takes up 4,500 MB (how? with what game resources?)

Final Directive is a pretty cool sci-fi twin-stick shooter. It's got really nice pixel art, great sound effects and awesome music. I found the gameplay in this to be quite fun. It's very challenging though, and I died a lot but was happy to continue and try again. It's not as frantic as many twin stick shooters and sometimes you actually need to hold back or time your attack so you don't get destroyed. There's definitely a bit more strategy to this one than most of the others twin stick shooters I've played. One thing I never like to see in a twin-stick shooter is an aiming cursor. This game has one, however, it doesn't seem to bother me very much. I often find that instead of looking at my character I'll be looking at the cursor and walking into enemies and things like this. After a while I don't even notice the aiming cursor, it's fairly light and this is a good thing. I didn't find it distracting as I usually do with these. There's a good variety of guns and different fire types...

Final Directive is a top-down shooter definitely worth its price and it has: -responsive controls -a variety of weapons at your disposal (you can swap between 2 in a similar fashion to nuclear throne) -an interesting dodge roll mechanic with slight ricochet physics -wonderful cutscene art by that wonderful boy soup-erb -solid pixel art -a good challenge for anyone who likes to fight hoards of enemies that endlessly spawn -3 game modes (story mode, endless, and local co-op) the only issue I think anyone could complain about would most likely be the length of the story, which took me roughly 90 minutes, but it truthfully isn't that big of an issue for a game that's $2.

What a lovely game.

TL;DR: Though I do recommend this game, I don't think that this game is particularly good from a gameplay perspective, while the aesthetic and charm does wonders. Plus you can't beat the sale price. I'll admit that I came to Final Directive for soup-erb's art. And it didn't let me down! In fact, all of the visuals in this game work very nicely. Enemies are distinct in their visual designs and their patterns are easy to remember, the protagonists have cute designs that read nicely even in-game, and the comics are a pleasant little break between the levels. I enjoy the music as well; the volume rising as fights get hectic is honestly pretty great. When it comes to gameplay though, Final Directive falls pretty flat. The objective is to find and activate multiple buttons on each level and then return to the center of the level to complete it. However, this objective is never laid out for the player in any terms at all. Controls are decent but full of some awkwardness: the button mapping...

i like the robot shes pretty. recommended if u like pretty robots and guns

This game had promise, but unfortunately I'm going to return it for a refund as aiming using the right stick is frustratingly slow and unresponsive, compared with the many other twinstick shooters in my collection. The problem is, you have to move an aiming cursor using the stick. This produces lag: your gun moves through an arc when changing direction instead of instantly snapping to the position of the stick. By comparison, it's far quicker with a mouse, but I don't want to play with a mouse as I thought this was supposed to be a twinstick shooter... Also, it seems to be bugged, with no sign that the developer is still active. e.g. I can't raise the graphics quality above the lowest setting as my character disappears.