The Last Shot

The Last Shot is a platforming adventure game set in a war-ravaged diesel-punk world. Militaristic cities fight endlessly with massive weaponry, all striving to be the last one standing. Rather than your typical hunky superhero, you take on the role of a humble mechanical engineer. You work tirelessly to produce the shells that are almost immediately blasted into a neighboring city’s exposed bits. Hey, it pays the bills. However, there comes a day when your comfortable routine is interrupted and you are thrust into the outside world on a dangerous journey. To save your friends and the city you love, you must uncover a terrible conspiracy and find a way to put an end to a nefarious plan. Explore the world around you to learn more about its history and lore, solve numerous puzzles, and tinker with machinery and contraptions of all shapes and sizes. with hazards poking out. There’s no very defined narrative why but there is a sense of place you’re going somewhere, like to or trough your workplace or to safety. But, well, approaching second part or so of game it gets real mean with it’s puzzle-platforming. See, when you create a puzzle you are better off letting people focus on the puzzle and figuring out part, but here quite some puzzle platforming section aren’t very generous with their checkpoints and you gotta deal with hazards that make set you back a while. Other parts just rely on some opaque nuance that you’ll only stumble onto by chance. Worst yet is that the slightly-to-the-side perspective makes platforming feel imprecise, and your character isn’t an athlete, he’s rather sluggish, meanwhile a lot of sections in second half require great precision, which due to slowness can only be tackled by rote.