+++ Beautiful artstyle/visuals
++ Amazing music
++ Very unique world, interesting lore
+ Cool side-story setpieces

* Bad difficulty and economy (get Magnetar Rifle 2* asap!)

-- Combat and repeating noises
-- Gameplay

Thanks to the beautiful artstyle coupled with the grand visuals, this game is an actual screenshot-machine! There are a lot of cool locations and natural beauty to discover, and I never got bored of the atmosphere. Adding to this is the nordic/tribal/pagan-themed music, which is all around amazing and pretty memorable. The world itself is very unique and the lore revelations were very interesting, most of this happens at the tail-end of the main story though. Speaking of story: there were many side-stories, which ended in very cool setpieces and were interesting as well.

My neutral point is about the difficulty and economy: the first campaign was HARD, since everything is very expensive and the rewards are laughable, but once I got a better weapon it flipped around completely. This got even worse in later campaigns. Since I retained my upgrades and money I breezed through the rest of the game.

That isn't even bad in my opinion, because the combat and gameplay are pretty awful. You fly in circles to shoot enemies the entire time, hear weird screeching the entire time, hear the LOUND money-pickups the entire time, and hear the same voicelines the entire time ("NO!"). The combat is pretty mind-numbing and not very engaging. The negatives sadly extends to the gameplay: there are no breaks, which COMPLETELY WRECKS your controlability and maneuverability. Flying into stuff is not the exception, it is the norm. It's also the reason why "Dog"fighting is so awful, you permanently overshoot your targets and can't regulate your speed. Additionally the camera is half-locked to the front, meaning you have no 360° vision, more like 270°, this extends to the vertical camera as well. Looking up/down/behind feels very clunky and at times impossible because of this and drags down the combat and gameplay even further.

Combat and gameplay are the worst parts of this experience, which is not a good look for a GAME.
Overall, I still enjoyed my time, since I knew for what I was getting into this (passion project, visuals, music, atmosphere), and it fully delivered on that front.