Cookie Cutter: Overkill Edition

8/10 Fun. Engaging Combat. Challenging Platforming. Enemy variety starts to dull towards the end, a lot of fights with old bosses becoming normal enemies. You don't get to spend enough time playing around with the gameplay mechanics that get introduced. You get Slingshot way too late into the game. Game is too short in my opinion. Whatever Cherry is going to do at the end should have been part of the game. Enemies provide a nice challenge. Knowing enemy behavior and understanding your toolkit is vital to winning engagements. For novice players this will be a brutal game. This is not bad at all, in fact I think it is good because this game is geared towards a certain type of player. With that said, some encounters can feel very cheeky, unfair, or just annoying (I'm looking at you bugs).

But it is more of a it depends. Part of the problem is that at one point about two thirds of the way through the game there's a softlock in the PC version which prevents further progression (it's not in the console version as the platform in question in the Crystal Pits is lower and you can double jump up and proceed). There are also other instances where you have to reset to the last checkpoint because an enemy has gone out of bounds and the combat room won't proceed to the next step because the enemy is considered alive. The story could have been perfectly fine without so much crassness but if you like crass then you will enjoy the story and the scenery. Combat itself is simple but decent and most of the bosses are relatively easy to deal with. There are instances where you can quite easily die because you get comboed and have no time to recover. I do like how easy it is to use obstacles to defeat enemies (sometimes too easy). Most of the puzzles are fine until late game where they become obnoxious and often involve instant death spikes and always involve having to instantly move away after using the laser or else you die and have to redo the entire puzzle again.

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Close, but no cigar. Parries are necessary for this game, but unfortunately it's really isn't a reasonable way to pull them off. I had to refund :/ The dialogue is a bit cringe. The fanservice is....weird (possibly because I'm not the target audience) lol

i play pirate this game on switch i love so much i buy on steam