9 Bosses To Save the World
HIGH Using a particle beam to one-shot the centipede boss.
LOW That last boss is a S-L-O-G.
WTF That’s… a killer totem pole. Huh.
Godstrike Review
Tag: Twin-Stick Shooters
HyperParasite Review
Robocop Is The Warmest Place To Hide
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.
Assault Android Cactus+ Review
Accessible Arcade Action
HIGH Zooming around an arena with a fully-powered robot.
LOW Without the speed boost, it can feel like a slog through mud.
WTF The drone-like helo attack.
Garage: Bad Trip Review
B-Movie Blandness
HIGH The old-school aesthetic is pulled off perfectly.
LOW Combat and level design feel incongruous.
WTF Rats can only be killed by kicking.
Blacksea Odyssey Review
Whalers On The Moon
HIGH The Cthulhu fight.
LOW Losing the Cthulhu fight because it started firing invisible beam attacks.
WTF The character who’s in the competition for space perfume.
Tesla Vs Lovecraft Review
Who Will Win The Future?
HIGH Using a fully-upgraded War Pigeon to wipe out two hundred monsters in a matter of seconds.
LOW Getting trapped by the Elder Polyp’s energy vortex again and again.
WTF Tesla’s Death Ray.
Ruiner Review
Gibsonihilistic
HIGH The aesthetics and style are on point.
LOW It runs out of interesting content halfway through the campaign.
WTF Explosive barrels fly towards me when shot??
Vostok, Inc. Review
Spacebucks Never Sleep
HIGH Levelling up my unicorns until I could wipe out the last boss in five seconds.
LOW Having to revisit all forty planets to earn the final boss fight.
WTF Space monster Elephanto.
Solstice Chronicles: MIA Review
From Beneath Red Sands
HIGH Minigun+Autotargeting = Hordekiller.
LOW Any of the boss fights.
WTF The mini-nukes are safe to detonate so long as I’m exactly halfway inside the blast radius.
Solstice Chronicles: MIA Preview
There’s something to be said for going with what works. Solstice Chronicles: MIA is, if nothing else, a prime example of a developer taking tried and true elements and using them to give players exactly what they want. The developers behind The Red Solstice have moved their Sci-fi RPG franchise into a new genre – the twin-stick shooter – and it absolutely works.
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