Turbo Overkill

Turbo Overkill starts off strong and really strong at that but once you reach Chapter Three it’s just far too long and the difficulty increases exponentially, especially compared to the previous levels. I made it all the way to the last level, which I personally believe has some of the worst level designs I’ve ever seen. It’s almost solely platforms and bridges which you can easily fall off, meanwhile you’re having to fighting wave after wave of enemies, huge amounts of enemies, enemies that are best executed with the chainsaw leg, therefore you end up sliding off the platforms and while you don’t die, it wastes time because guess what? you’re on a three-minute timer to clear all the enemies out. Your then expected to do this 3 or 4 times. OMG what a joke! Once you’ve completed the worst level design in history, you have to defeat what I presume is the final boss (I don’t know because I don’t have the will to continue doing it). Continuously spawning adds, lasers, fog, rockets, fire, weapons of every kind shooting at you from all directions with no real way to counter, dodge or cover from it. Add to that the spinning laser wall and the need to almost be continuously be in the air to attack the boss is just too much. The latter part of the game especially the level ‘The Final Purge’ is just a miserable experience and I might be more forgiving if some of the more generic filler levels were removed and the game condensed into the length of the first two chapters. I feel exhausted by its length just playing it, I have no idea how the developers felt making so many levels or why they felt they needed to. For me it’s incredibly frustrating to basically get as far as I have with no alternative but to sack the game off, I feel as though my time was wasted and disrespected by developers who decided to turn their game from a fairly decent boomer shooter to a Dark Souls shooter in the final level of their game, for no apparent reason! Play the Demo, enjoy it, then move on to something else.