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Not often do I find a game as entertaining as this one was. I had expected it to be a short and simple hollow platform shooter with outrageously unbalanced weapons, but I was completely wrong. It does start out very simple, but gets to be quite a challenge later through the game, and the small plot was actually pretty interesting.
I see a lot of reviews crying over the control scheme, but I didn't find it to be too distracting. Being able to shoot backwards still towards the cursor would be nice, but its not a big deal. One thing I would have liked to see would be the ability to assign weapons to number keys, because I'd often find myself trying to switch to a specific weapon quickly. Not a big deal either.
The game was quite a challenge to me (I can't even recall the number of times I died on the final boss), but it never stopped being fun. The weapon upgrades were awesome, and this is one of the few games where I was actually able to afford the best weapons at games end.
There is one small bug I found, though. Upon my second play through, when getting to the area with the spiders, there was no boss. I was simply stuck there with no boss or key. It's second play through though, so I suppose not that big of a deal.
In a nutshell, fantastic game! I loved every minute.