Savant: Ascent

Savant: Ascent

released on Dec 04, 2013

Savant: Ascent

released on Dec 04, 2013

A malicious orb has cast Savant out of his tower and transformed his surroundings into dangerous enemies! Dodge and shoot your way back up the tower, and blast down waves of enemies as you make your way towards the top! As you progress, you unlock CDs that not only give you new tracks to play to, but also grant you powerful new abilities! You play as the powerful Alchemist, a mechanical wizard who tries to possess the power of the mysterious orb. He's able to shoot vollyes of magic missiles, aswell as being nimble enough to dodge and jump out of harms way. Unlock 6 unique soundtracks from musical artist Savant each with unique powers to help you ascend the Alchemist's tower, or reach new highscores in Time Attack or Endless Mode. There are also secret powers to unlock, and several achievements to challenge the most experienced of players. Can you make it to the top?


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I AM THE SAVANT. FUCK THIS GAME AND IT'S FLASHING VISUAL DOO DOO (thanks, Jack). HOW DO YOU MAKE ART THIS AMAZING THEN MAKE YOUR GAME ONE OF THE MOST UNREADABLE MESSES OF ALL TIME. FUCK THIS SHIT AND THE INCONCISTENT INVINCIBILITY STRAT. FUCK ENDLESS MODE, BUT I BEAT THAT SHIT ANYWAY. 10 MINUTES. ALL ACHIEVEMENTS. FUCK YOU SAVANT YOU SHITSTER. HOLDING LEFT CLICK MY ASS, MY FINGER HURTS FROM THIS GAME. DUMPED PROBABLY 2 HOURS TRYING TO GET THAT STUPID ENDLESS MODE ACHIEVEMENT. I FUCKING HATE SNAKES AND I HATE THIS GAME. TOO EASY, I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU DO THIS SHIT. WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE I AM. THIS IS A CHALLENGE. WHOEVER MADE THIS GAME SHOULD BURN IN HELL. THIS SHIT IS NOT A 10/10. DOO DOO ASS GAME. IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE ANYTHING SINCE THE CAMERA PANS AROUND AS YOU MOVE THE MOUSE ASS GARBAGE. JUST LET ME SEE THE WHOLE SCREEN.

this gotta be one of the deepest cuts in my library but this shit lowkey fun. little arcade game nothing amazing but kinda cool

Replaying this because the Remix version (seems like a full-on remake) came out and I wanted to refresh my memory of it for comparison's sake. Pretty nice of them to just gift it out to owners of the OG version, too, considering I bought this for like 2 bucks a decade ago and Remix alone is 10 bucks.

Also, I never got the 10min Endless Mode achivement back in the day so I fixed that.

Really nice arcade shooter. I like Savant's music so that's a bonus. The final boss goes hard as fuck, but the ending leaves you feeling like you missed something. The progression system is fun because you just get more powers and content by collecting CDs with Savant's music. It's a nice challenge too until you get all the powers, but then you have Endless Mode to test all these powers and getting to 10 mins alone was rough due to how much shit gets thrown at you.

Anyway, it's just a really nice little game, as its tiny price tag implies.

The art is quite nice and the gameplay works well enough but then the game ends and you're left wondering if you missed something. There's only about 20 minutes of content, this would have felt short for a demo. It was okay I guess but really I thought that was just the first level.