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Kickback is a cross between Doom: Eternal and the bouncing DVD logoDude we’ve been watching this thing for four hours I think it’s working

Dude we’ve been watching this thing for four hours I think it’s working

Image credit:Dot blood

Image credit:Dot blood

A menu for new upgrades in Kickback.

Readers, I appear to have locked myself in self-referential language matrix trying to describe the feeling of playing top-downactionshooterKickback. You can only move through the recoil from shooting, you see, which means facing the opposite way to where you want to go. It’s both very counterintuitive and very fun. To call something both counterintuitive and fun seems, well, counterintuitive. But also: fun. Which, as a concept is very fun to think about. But, also, quite counterintuitive. Writing such a incredibly redundant paragraph is quite fun, even though I’m just repeating myself. Counterintuitive, right? I’m going to try to escape this paragraph now. If I manage it, I’ll see you in the one below.

Kickback — Gameplay TeaserWatch on YouTube

Kickback — Gameplay Teaser

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