Say Games' Johnny Trigger is a unique take on the click-to-shoot simple game. You play as Johnny, vigilante skilled combat criminals to maintain law and order in society. He's athletic, heroic and quite handy with a gun. Unlike most generic shooter game, with static maps and characters, Johnny Trigger offers a dynamic movement and pace back and play. flowing each round from the beginning to an end point that Johnny navigate to run across and jump obstacles and sometimes perform outstanding front and backflips. While watching the incredible physical abilities Johnny was a blast, you need to stay focused on the main goal - to kill the bad guys.
To complete a level, it is very important to kill every enemy. This trigger Johnny mechanic is very simple: tap the screen when Johnny aimed at enemies and make sure he survived. However, timing is everything because there is zero room for error. Even one missed shot leads to instant death, leaving you in the throes of grinding frustration.
Fresh Gaming Experience Every Round
Constantly changing atmosphere of the game makes the experience fresh. We could watch Johnny takes on the bad guys in a variety of settings such as: shipbuilding, coastal, warehouses, and even coal mines. There are various interactive objects in the game like a barrel of oil and gas cans, which also can shoot to kill enemies to shoot them in the head to be too pedestrian.
The title graphics are simple but attract attention. The characters look like stick figures drawn expert, which mixes well with the overall theme of the game of simplicity. Moreover, the contrast between the game's environments and characters make enemies and Johnny is especially prominent.
Triggers Johnny Hollywood action movie soundtrack energetic and help to create the overall gaming experience. The game also provides a wide variety of weapons to choose from such as pistols, SMGs and super weapons. All of them lead to the same amount of damage; but the unique sound of explosions from each weapon making and a wide selection of makes the experience of shooting the enemies involved.
The idea of this game is great, it is simple and fun. However, it has problems. Let’s talk about level design. The level’s are, in my opinion, way too short. I like my games to be difficult. And having a checkpoint between every bit of danger makes me feel like the game is holding my hand. Now let’s talk about weapons. The way you get weapons is fine, but pointless. The damage does not matter whatsoever as it only affects how much damage you do to bosses. And some weapons are just better than others. It is really down to personal preference what you like. The outfits are fine, however I noticed that the progress bar to get them goes up 20% instead of 10% when you are at 80%. I know that was a bit confusing, but it doesn’t matter that much. Now let’s talk about the most pressing issue, ads. The game, while not pumped full of them, has an ad every two or three levels completed or when you restart. These ada are skippable, but are annoying. But you can pay 3 dollars to disable them. Which is not gonna happen for me. I understand you guys need cash, but this is mobile, make a good paid game and then you can get cash by something other than ads. The skins are fine, I personally don’t care about them. The game itself is fine, but the way it is designed is not the best. Also, no John Wick skin 0/10 bad game.
Johnny’s movements are completely automated and follow a set pattern each time. While watching Johnny do back flips is amusing at first, after a few levels it becomes monotonous. These repetitive character movements significantly reduce the game’s difficulty as once the players knows the pattern, there’s simply no excitement left in the game. Johnny’s athletic movement in the initial levels is what makes the game immersive and fun to play. In order to keep the game engaging and pose a consistent challenge to players, the movements need to be variated. This can be done by adding more stunts that Johnny can execute. However, the current pool of stunts is limited and not enough to keep players engaged for a prolonged period of time.
Just like player movements, the map designs and enemy character placements are also repetitive. Every once in awhile when playing a level, you’ll think “didn’t I play this same map before?” And the answer is, yes, you did. The game simply changes the map’s background every 10-15 rounds, but the design and character placements remain the same.
There is absolutely no room for error in this game as even one missed shot leads to almost certain death. However, aiming is incredibly easy and basically the only thing you as the player have to do in the game. The fact that Johnny has unlimited bullets every round also significantly reduces the challenge. The number of bullets should be either a diminishing supply or limiting to the number of enemies per map to force players to utilize resources effectively.
While its repetitiveness and lack of a significant challenge drag it down a bit, Johnny Trigger is still worth your time. The title brings a fresh perspective to the domain of click-to-shoot action games, and its speed of play and lively audio make it one of the more unique action games on the market.
