Within the late ’90s, early 2000s, there have been two distinct flavours of aesthetics: boomer shooters, and Y2K girlypop vibes (for the sake of this argument we’ll ignore each different aesthetic that existed on the time). Boomer shooters like Doom and Wolfenstein had been bloody, gory, and had an actual “video video games are gritty and funky now form of vibe.” Conversely, merchandise geared toward younger ladies had been typically glittery, pink, featured leopard print, and had been typically about love and concord. Do not Cease, Girlypop! is a recreation that mixes these two vibes, and it is vitally good (and worrying).
Fairly particularly, Do not Cease, Girlypop is a self-described “Y2K area motion shooter the place standing nonetheless isn’t an possibility.” You actually do should be continually on the transfer, there’s even a combo meter that raises larger and better letting you go quicker and subsequently harm extra. I had a go at its new demo that simply got here out in the present day, and let me let you know, I felt like I used to be having a coronary heart assault, in as optimistic a manner as I can put that.
This can be a recreation the place calling it maximalist can be an understatement. There’s flip telephones, you possibly can customise your arms to have funky patterns, you possibly can put little bows in your weapons, enemies are continually coming at you from all angles, and that you must be able to take them down shortly, as a result of all the things strikes quick on this world. The factor is, I am not superb at shooters, so in my expertise of its demo, I shortly received overwhelmed. Even nonetheless I might discover myself studying the ropes as I went alongside, and I am positive extra skilled shooter aficionados might familiarize yourself with it fairly shortly.
Outdoors of loving its vibe, I am into the equally excessive story – “Mining corp Tigris Nix needs to empty your world of The Love, a pure power retaining your planet alive. Lay waste to its robotic drones to heal the Oasis!” That is all ridiculous! But it matches the tone of its look, and has a wholesome quantity of company frustration, at all times an added bonus in my eyes.
Do not Cease, Girlypop! does not have a launch date simply but, however you possibly can wishlist it and check out its demo on Steam now.
