Vicious Attack Llama Apocalypse

[quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33401179/]Follow my curator page for more recommendations![/url][/quote] I liked the idea of this game and was looking forward to playing it, but after giving it multiple tries I've decided to refund. It's just not a very fun twin-stick shooter. It should be mentioned that I only played this solo. It feels like the game was designed with co-op in mind, but the only option is local, no online support, so I couldn't try it. There's some strange design choices that really kill the fun, like how there's no way to gain back health when you're guaranteed to take at least a few hits every level. There's a "Transfusion" life steal perk but it doesn't seem to work at all, I was never regaining health when killing enemies. There are abilities that should help with not taking hits, like the shield and jump/slam attack, but you can only use them 2-3 times before you're completely out of energy, and energy doesn't automatically regenerate, you have to kill llamas with car explosions to get more, or does it just have a random chance to drop from kills? I couldn't tell, but either way it takes too long to get energy back for how fast it can b…

Bought this on sale for about 7 bucks, but even that seems too much for what this is. This plays like it should be on an app store, since it plays closer to those than anything good on the Steam store. You get a couple weapons, but from what I can tell, it's just about killing llamas. The jokes aren't funny. They're stupid and you're smacked in the face immediately with political crap. I'm not here for that. The presentation is not particularly enticing and the couple minutes of gameplay is pathetic. Overall, it's not a bad game, it just needs a lot more polish. Re-do the mechs so that they can walk over stuff like cars and smaller stuff, add more variety to the gameplay other than just running around shooting llamas, and take out the stupid jokes, all of 'em. Matter of fact, take out the entire expository intro and just say, "You'll be killing llamas." Also decrease the price by more than half. Fourteen dollars for this is quite excessive for what it is.

VALA is just really half-baked, like someone set out to make a certain kind of game but doesn't really like those or know why they are fun. They seem to think the llama thing can just stand in for everything else that makes the game experience actually good, and basically that the game is just a goof you can toss some friends into, rather than something that rewards you for trying to engage with it. It's not outright terrible. It just doesn't bring anything to the table. You endlessly kite big swarms of samey enemies (you'll be shocked when late game reveals the addition of spitting and exploding enemies) with random drop guns and random drop upgrades, both of which feel like they ran out of ideas a little early. There are a bunch of on-reload triggers from upgrades (significantly more than the small pool of upgrades warrants), [i]but[/i] they only trigger if you just run the magazine out and it reloads on its own. If you actually engage with the action and try to reload yourself, you block all those effects. Bad use of controller vibration. Just pulses with every shot fired, even though that's really obnoxious and completely unhelpful. At least there's an option to disabl…

We making it out LLamazon with this one.

So I played this game way back maybe in 2017 and I added it to my wishlist in 2018. I've been hoping I could catch it on sale, but this game rarely goes on sale, and when it does, I'm broke. Yesterday, I bought it full price, and it is so worth it. It's not easy, but it is so fun! Just enjoy it for what it is!

great, very refined twin stick shooter that is seriously underrated. super fun