Takotan

Takotan

released on May 15, 2019

Takotan

released on May 15, 2019

The world has been taken over by an alien invasion. On the eve of destruction, humanity calls out for help! Takotan is a retro shoot’em up inspired by 16-bit classics. Save the world from alien invasion by shooting and dodging your way through 8 action-packed levels with sinister bosses! Collect a variety of power-ups including lasers, bowling balls and ninja stars to take down enemies and defend the planet.


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Starship shooting game, didn't put effort into 100%, some levels were too hard, eventually gave up.

Somewhat pretty shoot'em'up but way too modern for its own good. The levels are too long, extremely empty, each of them having a gimmick that could have been just erased for shorter levels to a better effect.
The game revolves around your capacity to switch between foreground and backgrand to avoid incoming bullets and a shield. A HUGE shield. And then compensate your humongous shield by throwing everything at you, in a completely random type of patterns. The amount of random bullets doesn't really matter as the shield is just too big. I am a pretty bad console SHMUP player and managed to 1CC it in about two hours.
The game has, basically, all the flaws of euroshmups, a mediocre pacing and pretty clunky hitboxes, but I still had some fun discovering the (too easy) boss battle.
A game to buy on a huge discount, some reasonable 2h, if you ask me.