A simplistic vertical shooter with poor framerates.
Sluggish shoot'em up which gets messy after the first level.
While this game is egregious, it feels a little slow and the horizontal orientation doesn't help with so many things scrolling towards you. Destructible terrain/buildings is nice, but the enemies aren't that inspiring.
After the first level it moves to a swamp level which is very messy and cluttered.
Not really worth playing unless you want a shoot'em up where you can play as a space fighter mercenary called Brenda (and who wouldn't really!).
While this game is egregious, it feels a little slow and the horizontal orientation doesn't help with so many things scrolling towards you. Destructible terrain/buildings is nice, but the enemies aren't that inspiring.
After the first level it moves to a swamp level which is very messy and cluttered.
Not really worth playing unless you want a shoot'em up where you can play as a space fighter mercenary called Brenda (and who wouldn't really!).
A vertical shooter on a widescreen handheld that is also awful??
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I dont.... Hate it.... But its certainly an argument for why vertical shmups on systems like this just dont work very well. While graphically the game is absolutely on point and the sheer amount of destructible items is very fun, everythings just squished together far too much, throw in some rather chunky hitboxes and the difficulty often doesnt feel very fair and seems to rely on you being able to tank the occasional bit of damage thanks to the game using life-bars vs a 1 hit and die system.
Its annoying because it does a lot right and the moments of fun are good but the claustrophobic gameplay is a bit too much.
I dont.... Hate it.... But its certainly an argument for why vertical shmups on systems like this just dont work very well. While graphically the game is absolutely on point and the sheer amount of destructible items is very fun, everythings just squished together far too much, throw in some rather chunky hitboxes and the difficulty often doesnt feel very fair and seems to rely on you being able to tank the occasional bit of damage thanks to the game using life-bars vs a 1 hit and die system.
Its annoying because it does a lot right and the moments of fun are good but the claustrophobic gameplay is a bit too much.