Tyr: Chains of Valhalla (on Steam) Demo First Look
I'll give it a 5 out of 10.
Some things let it down:
A) Enemies shoot at you from off-screen forcing you to do the same to them.
B) Can't look up or down leading to annoying leaps of faith to frustrating deaths.
C) The mechanic to shoot enemies with certain elements is awkward because you are engaged in a fire-fight with them before you actually see them. And it's hard to deduce and change your element while you are already focusing on dodging their bullets.
D) If you are gripping to a wall then jump is disabled. Unfortunately if you are running and touch a wall then it wall also disallow you to jump.
E) double jumping is cancelled if you hit your head and there are many narrow corridors with electrical traps to jump.
F) You don't have free direction to shoot. You can only shoot horizontally or vertically. This means you often need to jump and shoot horizontally to hit a flying target. Unfortunately the enemies usually around the point where jump and double jump meet, so it is very difficult to shoot them at the right moment.
G) If you have changed your shot to a more powerful one and get hit once then you lose that power and go back to the basic shot. I thought that was a bit harsh, considering you ideally need that particular shot for that segment or boss fight.
H) Health stations never seemed to be at places where I would have used them.
I) Not being able to rebind buttons to whatever you want will probably upset some people.