MassCom X-Effect

HIGH The game mostly works!
LOW It mostly works.
WTF Sure, don’t explain what those meters do until the end of the game.
HIGH Finishing a boss by forcing him to miss two turns.
LOW Not being able to fast-forward through easy fights.
WTF Watching the drone roast virtual marshmallows.
HIGH Suspending enemies in mid-air before blasting them with a shotgun.
LOW The knight boss fight is torturously slow.
WTF I don’t know why anything is happening!
HIGH Leaping around in low gravity outside the station.
LOW Trying to complete the baffling campfire sub-quest.
WTF The mad god boss fight is something else.
The first and most important thing to note about Star Renegades is that it’s gorgeous — the world is rendered in some of the most detailed and animated pixel art I’ve ever encountered. This isn’t a case of people using pixel art for budgetary reasons, these are artists embracing the chunky rawness of the pixel art aesthetic to build their world.
HIGH Landing on Mars with one crewman with 1 HP in a ship with 1 HP.
LOW Being rewarded for rolling double sixes by being killed instantly.
WTF Quickly resorting to cannibalism while a greenhouse is on board.
HIGH Finally unlocking the famous Chinatown truck.
LOW The game never explains a key power-up mechanic.
WTF I’m not okay playing as Freddy Krueger.
HIGH Zipping through a high-tech base as everything explodes around me.
LOW A boss that’s out of bounds and impossible to shoot.
WTF Your enemy in this mission: Meteorites!
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