Give yourself time to get used to the controls and the aiming and you can have a lot of exploding goodness as you pick your way - and sometimes rampage - through 80s inspired futuristic 'dungeons'. The skill ceiling is high, and I'll never get to it, but what I have played kept me coming back for more.
...Then this is for you. This has a lot of interaction cutscenes that go on and on and on with dialogue. The loading times for the cutscenes, and loading the game, are interminable. My opinion of the combat is that it's awful. Your ship and the enemy ship are placed in an arena setting which is a pinball machine. You bounce off planets, pick up power-ups and are stuck within a boundary. Just awful. I like 2D space games, but this hasn't enough fun. It's too laborious and frustrating. I bought it on sale during the lockdown to pass the time. Can't say I'm happy with the purchase.
