2.9 hours played
Written 9 years ago
BRO FARCE.
Having had some serious difficulties with running this during Early Access, both with the controls in local co-op and the game just straight up not working on my old computer (for a reason related to drive letters, I think?) I decided to come back to Tango Fiesta now that it was released.
It... uh. Bleh. Guns are really bad at describing what they do before you use them in a level, which is fantastic since they're all terrifically expensive and several of them are an incredible pain to unlock via any method except running around in circles killing easy enemies for an hour, since you need to get hundreds of thousands of points in a single run.
"But points! You get them by doing well!" Well, actually you don't get all that many by doing well, because you get points for killing enemies en masse, and you complete levels by ignoring most of the enemies and destroying the objectives, since enemies infinitely respawn and can be rather tough... especially enemy corporals, who sometimes take almost a full magazine, if not more, of your gun unloaded directly into their face to kill.
Between that and several glaring bugs still present in the launch version (enemies spawning or being knocked on top of walls in the Killionaire missions, a level of Bionic Cop that took me 5 tries arbitrarily deciding it would never end after I beat it) I wasn't really having that much fun with the game. Half of the bosses (Yatcha Queen, Ramishar) are interesting, but the others were just an exercise in running away from them in a straight line while shooting, and Ramishar's HP bar overstayed its welcome for me, a bit.
I unfortunately wasn't able to complete the game yet, having gotten bogged down in the final level set, Bionic Cop, but I don't think it would change my review much even if I manage to get through it next time I try. Ultimately, there's much better twin-stick shooters and better, uh, Broforces. Like Broforce.
EDIT: Tried once more, got through Bionic Cop 2, still not able to clear Bionic Cop 3. Guns still require me to farm 250+ enemy kills each. Got the last card, so done with this.