So I downloaded and played this for about 6 hours yesterday evening. That's how addictive the game is.
The game itself is heavily influenced by the ALIEN movies and the story is quite similar, except that your character is not a marine but a blonde with a wand. Huh...'blonde with a wand' I should write that down....
Anyway standard military and scientists turn on this huge massive mind thing and the ship soon gets taken over. As you progress you see the gradual progression of the original crew into something resembling the xenomorphs from the movie series.
If said xenomorphs were of course sexual creatures. They'll try to knock you down or remove your clothes of course but not to kill you, instead they want some 'Blonde with a wand'™.
The atmospherics and background noises in the game really make you feel alone on a ship whose crew have been turned into monsters. I was particularly disturbed when descending further and further into the ship you encounter more disturbingly transformed enemies but even more so...when you realise it's the crew!
So it has that sort of horror to it, but it's not grotesque horror, it's more action horror with a bit of comedy in. Indeed there is a hilarious moment where I encountered an enemy from another 2d side scroller and laughed, or the time I encountered a boss that was a huge vagina that poisons and drains away the players health, (I swear there is a real life metaphor there!)
The motion is fluid and well animated and you have a wide range of powerups and different powers as you progress, you also level up and eventually become a force to be reckoned with.
Ideally I feel there was only 3 improvements that could have been made:
1) There is a bug where if struck in mid air you can stay there unable to move, so save frequently.
2) It would be nice if there was a seduction skill, or a way where you can initiate encounters, conquer the ship that way.
3) Meeting an occasional survivor would be nice. Some of the enemies you encounter are random events I noticed so it wouldn't be difficult to occasionally encounter a survivor.
Other than than, I would recommend! For all your dirty jobs remember 'THE BLONDE WITH A WAND'™. She's got it in hand....and other...places too...