Posted on: December 7, 2023
Early Access review
Geratix
Verified ownerGames: 91 Reviews: 6
A grindy, disorienting, mess
This game, like many others Whale Rock Games makes is in Early Access. WHich means it will likely stay that way forever. What is here however is just plain old disapointing. The game starts with an unskippable cutscene. You will see this cutscene every time you die. It tells you that aliens and mutants have taken over and your goal is to kill them all. Doesn't tell you the controls though. For a flying game in space, knowing how to go up and down is a bit important. Gameplay consists of kill eighty-one things in level one. Thirty asteroids, fifty mutants and one spaceship. Most are stationary and take multiple shots from your laser to kill. The exception is one bug that comes out of literal nowhere to fly around an shoot you. Lasers shot by you and the other enemies are the same colour, while lasers shot by the bug are red instead of yellow. You do have a missile which goes further than the smoke following it. That makes it look like it just stopped partway, so you won't be able to tell if you're close enough to hit until you either do or don't see an explosion. There is nothing other than your kill tracker, weapon list and health bar on screen. You have no radar or map so you can't keep track of things not killed already. This becomes a problem because every now and then, the bug will fly at you shooting lasers. trying to avoid it's shots means you need to move. move around too much and now you need to reorient yourself to find what you were going after before. Soundwise this game is really lacking. It has some background music, a noise for lasers, a warning low health noise, and that's it. Hitting an asteroid, enemies shooting at you and anything else you find is silent. This game is bad, unfinished, will likely stay that way, and not worth an individual purchase.
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