A very unexpected genre of game to come out in a Jam, but a welcome one.
Conceptually, I really liked the idea of this game. The instrumental version of Non-Fiction was very fitting and actually kept me going when I was struggling.
Unfortunately I couldn't beat the game due to a few reasons:
- The mouse controls felt very sensitive when moving slowly and even when moving fast it felt very touchy. This might have been my mouse and a DPI/mouse sensitivity setting would have helped out.
- The AI felt incredibly difficult. I've only played the first stage of Ace Combat 7 which I felt was very manageable for someone who hasn't played any piloting games before. The AI here was almost always out of sight and it felt like luck rather than skill to even get the enemies on my screen. Shiori in particular deleted me in about a minute and I never saw her once.
- No checkpoints made me immediately quit as the struggle to the boss felt overwhelmingly tough for too long.
That said, I did like the vibe this game was going for. I wish that the environment was more detailed and visible as it's fun to see the ground below while flying, the world in ENreco could look really neat from above.
If the controls felt better and the AI wasn't so difficult, I'd be interested in giving this another go.