I really enjoyed playing SUPERHOT, so I was kind of hoping for the same thing. This game, aside from the general slow-down mechanics, is not really all that similar to SUPERHOT. My fundamental issue with the game is the "endless replayability" aspect of it. What I enjoyed about the first SUPERHOT was the meticulously crafted levels that felt more like puzzles, not the actual shooting. It was less of an FPS and more of a puzzle with some FPS mechanics. This is, no bones about it, an FPS.

The level in the first game where you start in an elevator and you have to carefully plan how you're going to stop the three dudes from killing you point blank AND stop the dude from blasting you with a shotgun as soon as the elevator doors open? There's none of that here. Levels are more about you improvising your way through them, because the levels in the first game expect you to die a few times and learn your way through them, and that would be pretty damn unfair in this game because of its inclusion of a lives mechanic, where you have to restart your whole "run" if you run out of lives.

I don't know, maybe people will love this game because they thought the time-slow mechanics in the first one were cool and they just want to "be a badass", but that's not really what attracted me to the first game. As it stands, I feel that the roguelite genre is incompatible with a game like SUPERHOT.