My personal favorite character, Clive, can run fast while shooting two guns straight in front, like he jumped straight out of a John Woo movie.

One character is very fast but has very little ammo, while another has lots of ammo but moves slowly. One character can move while reloading, however, while another can shoot to cancel the reload. For example, when playing as most of the characters, you have to be very careful when you choose to reload because you can't move or cancel out of the reload animation once it starts. It's also smart to use the game's executions-brutal kills you can perform on a stunned enemy after sliding into them.īeyond those basics, each of the game's nine characters have different traits that affect how you control them.

Sometimes the better course of action is to be methodical, watching and listening for cues telling you that an enemy's clip is empty before you pop out of cover. Your health regenerates, but you can go down quickly in a hailstorm of bullets. But until you get a good grasp of Not a Hero's quirks, it can be better to take it slow. When you start the game, the temptation is to run in guns blazing, Contra style. Or you might try to take cover where you are, but, because the 'cover' button is the same as the 'slide' button, you suddenly find yourself sliding right towards the barrel of a criminal’s shotgun. Occasional hiccups occur when the game forces you to aim right when you're trying to aim left. The moment-to-moment action, including running, shooting, sliding into cover, and shooting some more is great … most of the time. Hitting the fire button while in cover pops you out long enough to take a shot, and you're relatively safe unless an enemy gets close enough to punch you.

Hitting the cover button often makes you just sort of hug the wall, shrouding you in shadow for protection and, if you haven't been spotted by nearby enemies, keeping you out of sight. Not a Hero's shooting is 'cover based,' but you don't actually need to be behind any cover-just kind of near it. Even mundane tasks like putting up campaign posters or collecting wind chimes (which is very important for, well, reasons) involve leaving a trail of bodies, most of which die in a comically over-the-top fashion.įor the most part, you can run left and right, slide and shoot. To help Bunnylord get elected, you mostly shoot people and blow things up. The violence in Not a Hero might be disturbing if it weren't for the absurdity wrapped around it. It's odd to think that he's supposedly on a mission to save the world, considering that he doesn't seem like a very nice man (or rabbit. He has open disdain for religious people, hates children, and throws around a word that disrespects the mentally handicapped. Bunnylord himself isn't a big believer of things like court trials. Sure, you might take down a drug lord and save some hostages, but along the way, you murder a lot of people. But true to the title of the game, you do a lot of things that aren't very heroic. In theory, this would make you, his employee, a hero. He is convinced that to prevent the disastrous future he has seen, he needs to be elected as mayor by the end of the month. In Not a Hero, you are a hired gun for a politician named Bunnylord, an anthropomorphic purple rabbit who has come from the future to, presumably, save the world. How will you campaign for mayor? Will you promise better schools? Guarantee that you'll fix all those potholes? Perhaps you'll run on the more straightforward assurance that you will 'shoot criminals in the face'? That last one might not be the most humane of political platforms, but it makes for an entertaining 2D action game.

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