Oh boy, this game is a bit of a mess, and really hard to review, so hard in fact, it took me over 10 days to do it. (Sorry for my inactivity btw)
Let's get to it, Vanquish: The Adventures of Lady Exton (That's a mouthful) it's a platformer that needs some serious polish and better coding, because, as I played it, I found it a mess. I hate platformers, but I can admit that the Marios and the Megamans are some really good games, but this one is just...

You play as Madam Lady Exton, a beautiful woman living in a steampunk era, who mysteriously wakes up in a cell, after the two seconds it took to break out, she finds that her parasol has a gun, which isn't strong enough to kill anything, and that it's her duty to... to... to what? I must've missed the story, because I haven't found any, Exton is just killing innocent annoying robots and that's it, after 10 levels there's an underwhelming boss, and between that you go through underwhelming levels.

Obviously, it's a platformer, you jump on platforms, and you shoot thingies until you reach the end of the level, quite simple, so how do you screw this up? By programming it in under two hours, the controls are floaty, it seems like an ice level all the time, and the jumps have a small but noticeable delay, which gets old fast, the top of the screen is solid, so you'll crash your head on it frequently, and when you do, you can't do the double part of you jump, and you'll plummet to your death.
The enemies are more annoying than difficult, they clutter the screen, making it impossible to avoid damage, and any damage cancels your jump, removing all momentum and killing you with gravity. You do have a really generous health bar though, but your gun deals next to no damage, taking over 10 shots to kill an enemy, which the levels are full of, too full. So it takes a lot of time to get through one, and it's just so unrewarding, you just reach a balloon and go to the next level, 30 times, that's it. And the background moves back when you go forward, and that's worse than it seems, it actually nauseates me, and gives me a very bad headache.
With some polish it could be good, maybe increase the damage, remove the ceiling, and remove some of the clutter of some levels. But I'm not a game designer.

The art style is actually good, really good even, everything is well drawn, the enemies are a bit too simple, but it's overall good, the background looks nice and Exton herself looks good as well, the animations are a bit on the lazy side, they aren't really fluid and nice, but it can be forgiven.
The music though, it's the best part of the game, it's just ear candy, it loops quickly, but it's really good, the composer did a great job. The sound effects on the other hand... There's just one, the gunshot, other than that, none. Which makes the game quite awkward at times, because of the silence.

Overall, my opinion of the game could easily change, but it won't for now, because I haven't heard of the developer for 4 months, so they could've very well abandoned it, but I'm none to judge.
I don't recommend the game as is.

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Challenging platformer that deserves to be played. The art is fantastic. Platforming is fun and responsive.

Some levels can be brutal. The boss fight in level 10 is quite fun to play out. Really liking the game so far.

Great Game!
In the beginning I found it quite challenging, but once I got a feeling for the controls it became easier. Its still a hard game though, I died a million times before I made it to the first Boss.
The Artwork, especially the Enemie design is realy good! Havent played far past the first boss (which looks awsome)(and again took me quite a while to get there) but I hope there are more cool enemies ahead.

So I can recommend this game to everybody looking for a not-too-easy Jump 'n' Run with a realy nice look and feel to it!
Btw: I had some troubles with my controls via Keyboard when I first played, but it got fixed quickly! So thank You for that :)

Fast gameplay, the dash move is cool and made some trick shots in certain levels. The game design is colourful and frequently changing and the fancy lady protagonist is a nice touch. Would recommend to platformer fans

This is yet another 2D platformer infesting the Steam marketplace. Kudos to the developers for not going down the incredibly lazy, overdone retro-pixel artwork path. Instead they've chosen retro cartoonish graphics (think of any of the Cartoon Network stylised cartoons in recent years using 1950's/60's styles). So at least the appearance of the game isn't terrible, if simplistic.

The problem is that's the limit of imagination when it comes to the design of this game. It's a very, very mediocre 2D platformer. Your character is essentially Peach with a gun-brella. The controls are tolerable but not great. The gameplay is a snoozefest. With so many lazy platformers glutting the marketplace, there's no outstanding reason this game deserves a recommendation.

Edit: I now understand why this is so poor in general quality... it's ported from iOS by greedy devs who think PC gamers should be gouged extra money for the privilege of pretending their gaming rigs are mobile phones. Screw those guys. Mobile trash does not belong on Steam.

Great indie game. Much better than I expected. Steam greenlight can really get some good games out.
Art style is vibrant and unique.... Love it. Gameplay is fun to play and there is something waiting to kill / miam you at every corner!

Great gameplay and awesome graphics !! Look forward to reach the Boss levels to engage in some good action. recommend a definite buy

Vanquish is well designed game with every level has some new adventures which is really exciting to play.