Anger Foot

I love this game with all my heart. I love the music, the atmosphere, basically everything about it. There is only one thing that bothers me. In an earlier demo or earlier version, before the game came out, whenever you were killed, the characters would dance perfectly in sync with the music. They were actually doing proper gabber dancing, and it looked incredibly cool. Now they mostly just seem to hop around.(sometimes somewhat synced) It looks very different, and it takes away a little bit from the whole feeling for me. They’re no longer really dancing to the music; they’re just jumping around, and that proper gabber-dancing feel seems to be gone. I don’t know why this was changed or how it happened, but that is genuinely the only thing in the game that isn’t quite up to my personal standards. I really wish the old synchronized dancing would come back, because it looked fantastic.

A fast, chaotic, and pure adrenaline fueled action game, with a fun cartoon style presentation and an intense soundtrack that strongly pushes the pace, somewhat reminiscent of Hotline Miami. It follows an old-school arcade structure with a three-star scoring system in each level. The idea works well, even if the base difficulty can quickly become frustrating. Fortunately, several options allow you to adjust the challenge to suit your preference. Levels are short and well designed overall, featuring a varied set of enemies and a few boss fights. The shoe system adds gameplay variations, mostly for fun, though a few do meaningfully change how you approach combat. Despite its strengths, the game becomes quite repetitive over time. Even though it does what it aims to do well, it’s simply not really my type of game. I had a good time, but no real want to go for full completion.

Soundtrack alone is worth playing the game for. The writing got quite a few good laughs out of me which I definitely didn't expect. Moment to moment gameplay is extremely fun and lightning paced while the challenges, for the most part, are manageable and not unfair. None of the speed run challenges are super tight which means you won't be disappointingly missing the mark by fractions of a second. On the flip side, I do wish some of the speed runs WERE a bit tighter for more of a challenge and prevented the use of shoes that allow you to move faster - although I suppose you could self handicap yourself (but they often seem required). My main complaints are: the bosses felt a bit clunky, I experienced quite a few moments where I clipped out of the map (or my weapon did) making a good run for a specific challenge get reset, some weird collision detection that would get me killed, no ability to quickly change shoes and replay/restart a level, and a lot of the shoes feeling completely worthless when there was more room to explore unique perks. As much as I do actually love the game, I will mention that there are a few challenges that are wildly inconsistent and feel like luck (kill X amount of enemies with Y environmental kill especially). The most notable is the "Massacrepone" Challenge which just feels like it was never tested and shouldn't be in the game. It had me screaming and didn't feel "challenging" so much as it felt "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid." The game definitely needs a patch to fix issues with clipping out of the map and some frame rate issues when a lot is on screen, but I doubt one will come over 2 years since the game's release. With all that said (and I know there was a a lot of critique) this game is 100% a game you should play.