While you consider boomer shooters, you have a tendency to think about gritty, grimdark affairs. It is the identical with most video games that characteristic weapons as their main mechanic. Nevertheless, Do not Cease Girlypop challenges these preconceptions, providing a imaginative and prescient of what a Quake would seem like if tit was designed by a teenage woman within the ’90s. Equal elements pink and punishing, this high-octane fever dream of a shooter is likely one of the greatest concepts for an indie sport I’ve seen in a very long time, and I am itching to play it. Fortunately, a demo simply launched on Steam, so we will see if the gameplay lives as much as the aesthetic.
Do not Cease Girlypop seems to be like Doom performed in Barbie’s Dreamhouse, as if the Doom Slayer discovered a chest of rhinestones locked away someplace within the depths of hell and determined to make them his complete character. However there’s extra to this sport than a tutorial that feels prefer it ought to finish by telling you, ‘Good luck, and do not fuck it up.’
There is a combat in opposition to capitalism, a dying planet to save lots of, and a few severe enemies to kill. Does it matter should you’re murdering demons with a pistol that fires crushed-up skulls or a bubble gun that shoots pink hearts? I did not suppose so. If the fight feels good and the narrative holds up underneath mild scrutiny, shooters gonna shoot.
My demo is downloading as I write this, and I am hoping for a traditional boomer shooter with a maximalist ’90s aesthetic and tunes that hit as laborious as these in Sayonara Wild Hearts. In per week when the girlies have been let down by essentially the most mid Taylor Swift album ever, swiftly written to seize as a lot money as doable earlier than the Eras bubble bursts, we wanted this.
Do not Cease Girlypop is extra than simply an aesthetic, although. In a twist on the traditional method, you deal extra injury the quicker you are shifting. It’s best to by no means stand nonetheless in any sport of this nature, however this simply cranks up the motion to fever pitch. With dashes, double jumps, slams, and bunny hops all in our protagonist’s arsenal (to not point out these bejazzled rifles), motion is on the core of every thing Girlypop does.
The Do not Cease Girlypop demo is out there now. You may obtain it on Steam right here.
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