squid overlord

Its honestly hard for me to rate this game. When this game 1st came out ida given it a 5 star. However, going back to it after playing 1st and 2nd encounter (both being more arcade shooter with in my opinion better level desighns.) Into bfe (,a military style shooter with sam sprinkled over it) feels realy weird to me personaly. However. Back in the day i really enjoyed my 1st playthrough and the campaighn. But now in 2024 im noticing a few things that kinda bug me. Like the 1st 4 levels being incredibly confuseing as theres really no real way to tell where youre going, the game itself looks kinda generic in its art style and it kinda plays a bit clunky vs older sam games... which is hard to believe. The mele mecanic is kinda janky too. Yea it works, but allot of times it just breaks some of the games small enemy encounters that are supposed to by desighn be more of a challenge. But instead u just press mele to insta kill small enemys and kleers as if you had a halo energy sword lunge as youre mele. But with this being said... the games not bad. Croteam just kinda got thrown into this more military take after a droped doom project and used there resorces they had left over from that to make this. In all honesty they did good. But u can tell they were strugling to find how to mesh this with a sam game. But they eventualy would get it togeather as sam 4 and syberian mayhem are way better in terms of gameplay. Id give this game a 3. Only because of how clunky it feels vs 1st and 2nd. And that some of the levels can be down right a nightmare in navigation.