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So I chose to follow Unmetal up with Overload, I played it a bit in 2020 so I already knew the story is largely inconsequential but it's the perfect Steam Deck game - runs well, looks great and the extra buttons on the back are super handy for sliding up/down and rolling, but most importantly it's easy to pick up and put down, my main complaint last time was that it's too samey to play in long sessions so doing three hours in one sitting (as I used to do in those days) was boring, but doing three hours split into 2-4 sessions is much more entertaining. Plus having a controller with enough buttons to control the ship properly really helps!
The graphics, sound design, weapons, enemy variety and AI, level design... So much of it is genuinely really good, and yet because of the lack of variety of things to do - find access keys to move deeper into the map then either fight a boss or destroy a reactor core and escape - and the uninteresting story, it feels unfortunately unfinished or at least unbalanced, like a tech demo spun out into a whole game. Still, the moment-to-moment gameplay is fun so long as you remember you have six degrees of freedom (so often I'll just dodge left and right while moving backwards, but then I remember that buttons on the back exist so I can roll and slide up and down too, which almost immediately makes it feel "cool") so, like I said above, in short sessions it's actually pretty great.
The graphics, sound design, weapons, enemy variety and AI, level design... So much of it is genuinely really good, and yet because of the lack of variety of things to do - find access keys to move deeper into the map then either fight a boss or destroy a reactor core and escape - and the uninteresting story, it feels unfortunately unfinished or at least unbalanced, like a tech demo spun out into a whole game. Still, the moment-to-moment gameplay is fun so long as you remember you have six degrees of freedom (so often I'll just dodge left and right while moving backwards, but then I remember that buttons on the back exist so I can roll and slide up and down too, which almost immediately makes it feel "cool") so, like I said above, in short sessions it's actually pretty great.