The pipecleaner is beatable -- fo sho.
Took me about 4 tries, 2 of them because I accidentally right clicked and went to the developer's site (gah). But yah, you just gotta follow the targets around rather than letting them pass through your sights. It's a close call, even when you make it, but it's definitely possible. I was pretty impressed. Like everyone else was saying, I was just waiting for this to come along. It's about the level of Duke Nukem 3D, if you remember that, although not funny. I'm surprised and a little disappointed there weren't any secret areas (or were there?).
Taking out chemicops while on the hovercraft was sweetness. Since they shoot wherever you were when they fired, you don't even have to move around to take em all out without damage, hehe. Thanks for the perpetual side-tit view as well.
I enjoyed playing, a little more variety in the things one can do would be nice, but the shoot to travel thing was pretty clever and incorporated the zoom fxn well. I wish I could have moved while zoomed, but ah well, whatcha gonna do?
The only thing about this that put me off was the end bit with the sprite of the main character. While the rest of the game seemed to fuse together pretty well, graphically, that just looked very superimposed. I'm not sure how else to put it, except this way: once I saw a tabloid with the caption, "Dinosaurs Discovered in the Rain Forest!" A picture of an iguana had been blown up and superimposed over a picture of a rainforest. There was a little white outline around the creature, it didn't have the same contrast and definition as the background, it didn't look good. Same deal. Otherwise pretty damn good and bonus points for doing something everyone's been waiting for.