SUPERHOT has incredibly precise, exciting gameplay. The slow-fast motion gives the player a chance to feel like a superhero and action-movie badass while simultaneously watching the glorious results of their murderous rampage unfold in slow motion around them. This slow motion makes for an experience that is more aesthetically pleasing than many FPS games. Even in great games like Doom (2015), action can fly by so quickly that the player can't really revel in the experience. SUPERHOT gives you the time to really feel each shot, to literally watch the bullets find each enemy and watch them disintegrate like so much shattered cinnamon glass candy.

Unfortunately, the game is great, but short when it comes to the narrative. For the price (especially at a discount on Steam) the game is a great value, but the narrative doesn't deliver fully on the promise of the concept. Just as the game starts to get really interesting, and you start to put all of your skills together, the final sequence ends. The ending doesn't provide much in the way of resolution or closure. It's understandable that the game's creators would leave room for further explanation of the game's concepts in later installments, but the end of the game doesn't go quite far enough in telling the player what was actually going on. Because most of the levels in the game relay little narrative information, almost the entire narrative comes through the DOS-like shell that also functions as the menu. The last few levels of the game carry some narrative import as well, but there really is a feeling that, as the in-game story tells you to stop playing, you have no idea what the consequences of your character's actions are in the game.

I would recommend this game unequivocally to anyone. The aesthetic is coherent, the controls are sharp, responsive, and precise, and the story is fascinating (if truncated). I look forward to more SUPERHOT in the future.