Red Death

Red Death

released on Mar 23, 2017

Red Death

released on Mar 23, 2017

Red Death is a vertical shooter, Prologue of the series Project Starship!


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Shoot n' Up simplinho, tem outros melhores. Se curte o gênero, e estiver em promoção, recomendo, caso contrario, deixe para depois.

The fact that everything is red is an interesting gimmick, but unfortunately makes it pretty annoying to play. The bullets, the backgrounds, the power ups and the collectibles are all the same white-and-red, which makes it terribly difficult to distinguish what's what once the screen starts filling up - and it fills up often. It also has a surprising amount of "scripted" sequences, which is to say, moments where the game stops so some guy can throw out a couple lines of annoyingly tedious dialogue that sounds like if Marvel movies were a little more liberal about swearing. I wouldn't mind if the dialogue happened in-between levels, or happened alongside the gameplay à la Katamari Damacy, but the game halts everything so you can mash through this stuff every single playthrough. The dialogue wasn't worth reading the first time, and it isn't worth reading the 20th time, I'm sorry! On top of all this, every single common enemy feels like it has a little more health than it should, possibly to account for how ridiculously overpowered the OVERLOAD mechanic is (an admittedly innovative take on a shmup's usual bomb mechanics). Because of this, none of the weapons really feel that great to use until they're completely powered up. So in total, we have a game that does a terribly job of visually communicating much of anything, with poorly written stop-and-go dialogue sequences that break the pacing every playthrough, with weapons that feel bad against these damage-sponge enemies... Maybe there's a good time to be had here if you're better at discerning between the exact same shades of red and white than I am, but even if the game made sense to look at I can't imagine anything here would really retain my attention for very long.

It's a red-colored shmup with 3 stages and some challenging stuff to dodge. It is good for its price, but the cool stuff its probably on the devs' other games.