Kill It With Fire: Recensione (PC)

If you are arachnophobic this may not be the game for you.
Actually no, wait a moment: if you are arachnophobic and want to eliminate spiders but in real life you find it too close to a near-death experience, Kill it with fire it could be for you because it represents a wonderful outlet.

To tell the truth, the title is quite an understatement: there is not only fire among the instruments of offense but an entire arsenal of weapons that could be the envy of what is possible to cross inside a FPS war capable of taking itself a little less seriously.

A little first person shooter, a little puzzle game, a lot of wannabe simulator video game. Let's see together if Kill it with fire it is worth the money to which it is sold and who should buy that stock.

Kill them all

Let's start from the basic assumption: Kill It With Fire is not meant to be a triple production A, it doesn't aspire to that kind of content, it doesn't want gamers who usually spend hours wandering the open worlds of multi-million dollar budget titles. It is a very nice video game, created with some money, which aims at very particular players.

IThe title is attributable to the great cauldron of funny simulators, there Surgeon Simulator (of which we have just tried the second chapter) all laughter and rose water mechanics. Kill It With Fire takes the playful system of a first-person shooter and mixes it with ingredients from all over the gaming world, putting really many different things in the middle with more or less interesting results.

The structure of the game is as follows: ten different environments, all characterized by a number of arachnids clearly above average, to be explored and completed by collecting objects, finding new tools and solving small tasks that we will find scattered on sheets of paper around. From setting fire to a given number of objects, to arranging a garden by rearranging bonsai, passing through more bizarre tasks such as blowing up a building with a propane cylinder.

Armed with notebook and arachnoradar our task as players will be to explore the levels, respecting deliveries, collecting resources and killing spiders.

The latter will be completely harmless towards us (making the happiness of all arachnophobic fans of video games) and will be available in different species, all with different behaviors and visual characteristics. From explosive spiders (which fortunately do not exist in nature) to spider pups, from those that jump at the customer's face to those that spit webs, they were not even blades.

Kill it with fire puts us in front of this variegated insect fauna asking to silence it shot after shot.

Cooking with weapons of mass destruction

On a more in-depth analysis, the bizarre idea of Casey Donnellan Games LLC published by Tinybuild has a few problems here and that will end up making many people turn up their noses. First of all, gunplay, so to call it, does not reserve a great deal of satisfaction with projectile weapons; killing spiders with assault rifles or pistols is particularly complicated due to an aim that is too expensive in terms of accuracy.
To this must also be added a protagonist with clear motor problems, really slow in his standard walk and unable to shoot if he carries any object (even small ones).

All features that do not particularly harm the gameplay, mind you, but that make you turn up your nose several times going to unnecessarily lengthen the completion times of the levels.

Those who have reviewed this game have limited themselves to taking in frying pans practically any spider present on the screen, finding in these also problems in the balance.

What are we talking about?
Kill It With Fire all’atto pratico it does not present any kind of difficulty because spiders, in their totality, are practically harmless. Removed a spider able to obstruct our view for a few seconds, the rest of the creatures that we will face on the screen are unable to obstruct our path towards extermination, which is why it will not care in any way to know who we will have in front of us or what. because a maximum of two well-placed pans will be enough to bring home the victory.

Game design in essence, in attempting to offer a relaxing experience ends up offering an experience that in practice it does not foresee obstacles but only targets. Here become useless many of the proposals of the arsenal (very varied and beautiful), since in practice only a pan is really enough to knock down the opponents and complete the vast majority of the challenges.

The longevity of the title, from a completist point of view, is expected on four or five hours, thanks to the not particularly high number of levels involved and the limited amount of tasks to be performed per level. Kill It With Fire is not going to let you spend the whole summer with him, but more to be the perfect protagonist of a single evening, perhaps spent with friends and beers.

But how many polygons are there in this arachnid?

From a purely technical point of view Kill it with fire is a very simple video game that defends itself well with other titles of similar production value. The graphics are simple, very clean and perfectly capable of running on old machines without generating frame rate problems or anything else.

The sound, without infamy or praise from the musical point of view, serves mainly to generate tension and anxiety when we approach objects with spiders attached. Here the game succeeds capitalize well its sector of effects generating genuine anxiety and genuine emotions, with dynamic arcs and effects reminiscent of a certain cinematic flavor.

Considering the budget price, in the end it is possible to turn a blind eye to the longevity of the title and take it for what it is: an alternative way to accompany a beer in company, perhaps with someone in the room who has a really bad relationship with spiders.

Kill It With Fire is a simple game that will delight all arachnophobic players willing to have revenge on their natural enemies. Strengthened by a basic quirk and a fun concept, the title can be appreciated by all those players without particular pretensions and more interested in having healthy laughs in company. Obviously, to be able to approach this product in the best way it is necessary not to have particularly high demands, nor to hope for triple A technical prodigies.