It’s hard to know what to say about Shotgun Cop Man that I didn’t already say when I previewed it back in February. The demo presented me with a game that was so fundamentally rock-solid that all I could really do was conclude it was excellent and move on.
However, if the demo only gave me a taste of shotgun justice, the full game delivers a double-barrel blast of excellence. Much like its predecessor, My Friend Pedro, Shotgun Cop Man continuously evolves as you play, growing more complex and increasingly engaging the deeper you go.
I touched on it briefly in my preview, but I’ll reiterate in case you don’t feel like searching for it. Shotgun Cop Man’s plot is simple—you are Shotgun Cop Man, elite officer of the Shotgun Cops. You have one mission: to go to Hell and arrest Satan. It’s almost elegant in its simplicity. Throughout my playthrough, I kept waiting for some kind of Dante’s Inferno-style reveal where Satan had wronged Shotgun Cop Man personally, or perhaps... Read more