Blazing Chrome

I only have cons for this game, so here they are: - This game is like Contra with no improvements apart form some Metal Slug-style mechs which you can pilot. The problem is, if you're gonna copy a game from 30 years ago, you better bring some innovation to the table. As examples, 2 games that do this very well well are Huntdown and Fight'N Rage. - I love difficult games and stuff like Metal Slug. however the problem here is the way the difficulty is implemented. There's a HUGE discrepancy in how much skill is required to beat a boss based on how well-equipped you get to it. You can beat some bosses in literally under 10 seconds standing still and pressing the fire button IF you never died during the level and reached the boss with a defensive bot and a grenade launcher, OR you have to dodge and aim perfectly for 3 minutes instead if you died before reaching the boss and lost your gear. Add this to the fact that you usually only find each weapon once or twice per level and it becomes a very unbalanced and frustrating experience. I found myself dying just once and then suiciding on purpose until I lost all of my lives to restart the level because I knew it was just more time-efficient to restart, considering the length of the boss battle and the low chances of beating him with basic gear. This would honestly be more fun if you had a single life. Also, boss battles should never end in under 10 seconds and should never be a joke. Also, why the fuck would you not add a "restart mission" option under these circumstances? - There's a bug or a very bad design choice that absolutely every time you continue a game from where you left off, you start with 2 lives instead of 5. - There are only 3 weapons apart from the default one, and the devs didn't even bother to make different models for them. They all look exactly the same in the player's hands. Even Metal Slug, an ancient game this one takes inspiration from, had different weapon models AND more weapons.

Blazing Chrome: Pros: ----- Looks good. Sounds good. You can ride robot suits. Cons: ----- Lives system in 2019? And in easy mode? Why? The punishment of losing your weapon when you die is enough. No need to send the player back to the start of the section and waste their time as well. Just replace extra life pickups with defence bots. They are basically 2 extra lives anyway. As of writing, the Complete Mission 2 achievement is sitting at an "Uncommon" 20%. Complete the game on easy at 5%. That's a lotta game no one is playing. As a compromise, giving players their full set of lives at the start of each checkpoint (as least on easy) would help. Since at the moment, if you are going into a new section with one or two lives it's just better to suicide for a new set. A really long final boss with no checkpoints makes it a pain to play through. Contact death ninjas. In a game like metal slug, enemies needed to actually attack you somehow but here they just run over you. Even regular non melee enemies kill you on contact. Very annoying. Your weapons fire layer is placed on top of enemies weapons fire (example, purple tesla vs mission 3 elevator boss first spit attack) leading to enemy attacks being hidden from view. Another annoying one in mission 3. The giant worms that shotgun spit off the top of the screen in a high arc, making the position of their attacks invisible until they reenter the screen at high speed. A battletoads bike section. On bike stages, powerups can bounce over your head after they hit the ground. So you just miss out for no good reason. Power up boxes can sometimes give you nothing. Even if you really needed that shield robot. Misc Cons: ----- Unskippable company logos. Takes a while to get into the game after launching it. Intro movie is pretty dull.

Neither keyboard nor mouse doesn't work. All I saw was push-start-button screen. And there is not a single adequate solution in google. Everything comes down to stupid tips, such as: update drivers, clean registry, kill AVP, wipe the dust from the monitor, e.t.c. Great, but no, thx, I folding. And refund.

Trash controls

So I can indefinitely repeat last part of the level, but I can't save it there and leave the game? We're not living in the 90s anymore... It's OK that game is difficult, but it's pointless to make it frustrating. I have other things to do in my life, I don't want to play the whole level again because I did not want to repeat boss fight for half an hour or more and couldn't save it there when I had to turn the game off. Controls are quite bad. On keyboard near useless, gamepad is much better, but so far I didn't manage to optimize it so that it feels smooth and there are tons of missed shots due to the "aiming" which really matter in a boss fight with 1hit=1 lost live. Otherwise, the game is good and fun. Save on exit and resume later would make it accessible also for people who have life.