Cryptark

IF you ever played Bangai-O on Dreamcast, this game feels and plays like it and that is a good thing. I bought this game on sale and its worth the price I paid for. Controlling the ship is very smooth. NO issue with the gameplay or bugs that i've encountered so far. Definitely give this game a shot if you like Bangai-O or any similiar game in this sort of genre

i think game has potential and is fun already. definitely requires polishing: - when too much stuff is being animated on the screen, it terribly stutters and skips frames (on decent GPU, where most games i am playing - including those nominally more demanding don't). - why one-sided shield protects from the gas? - etc. etc. good stuff in general, needs some work though.

Cryptark on GOG is a second-class citizen to the Steam version (no Easy Mode here). The gameplay is built around a fun core, namely flying around and unloading bullets into combat drones, but is surrounded by terrible additions. The ships you explore are poorly randomized by throwing together rooms of mismatched doors and challenges. Doors that lead into walls are common. The global challenges you encounter per ship, things like "don't kill X" or "use a loadout worth less than $45k", don't appear to account for the ship layouts at all. There is probably a SHUMP master who loves the insane challenge, but a humble gamer boy such as myself just wants to have fun and eventually beat the level. So, the scornful lectures for failing to meet stupid extra objectives or massive penalties for dying once are just not for me. The only way to actually progress in the game, that I've found, is to ignore extra objectives and go for the ship with the highest monetary value. This seems bass ackwards, but I've found the lower value ships just grind you up with enemies and I'm not sure why. There's also no way to go backwards, so you only get to explore 1 of 4 ships per area. May as well make the ship you explore the highest value. I've also found it's pointless to customize your loadout much: if you aren't a master at these kinds of games, just throw together something that works and tweak it as little as possible. To me, the result is an interesting but overall poor game.

i bought this game without many expectation. Basically just 'cause it looks like a fun Cybernator clone. But, oh boy! This game menage to really surprise me! Lots of different weapons and gadget, the artstyle is good the music is fine, the BANG are punchy, the numbers go up... you know the drill. Easy raccomandation if you like 2D mech combat.

Fun concept and gameplay