With vast steps from its predecessor, Uprising took a fearless leap onwards into 3D with its own bag of flair, while at the same time remaining faithful to the Icarus universes share of recurring elements.
Through a narration composed with hands down excellent writing and great voice actor performances the plot pivots unpredictably between the whimsical and surprisingly darker territories. although most of this is played for satire through banterings between our heroes and villains as background noise while playing the game, it's still very fun and well synced dialogues to what happens on screen as you play.
The unpredictable nature of Uprising also carries through the presentation, set pieces to hazards and enemy designs.
For every stage there are jaw drop moments of realisation and discoveries, with a good handful of laugh out moments for silly attention to details to splendours of soaring through space and below waters. It's simply a joyride throughout.
Every stage presents their own tune of aestetical values as you slice, dice and barrage enemies through a technical two segmented gameplay foundation. Mainly from the preluding and cinematic sky shooter parts into the more technical and semi platformy ground combat segments.
It is unfortunate that the biggest gamekeeper in Uprising is namely the controls that requires heavy hand coordinations for both moving and aiming around at the same time, in addition to absorbing everything happening on screen.
The control schemes asks a lot from the player, not to mention the durability of the 3ds analog as you need to flick from left to right, to constantly dash around or dodge enemy projectiles and the likes.
Once you get to grips with the controls it only gets better from there as you unlock better weapons and can adjust
the difficulty to your liking from playing it safe to harder difficulties to keep on unlocking better gears.
In addition to the main story there's a lot of collectables and different weapons to alter melee, range and movement speed. There's plenty of game optimising to play around with which adds up for great replay value.
Not to mention there's a multiplayer mode with arena combat and seperate modes, which to my delight were still active when I tried it out.
Whether you're soaring through the skies, or sweeping through the grounds. Uprising will light your path with its divine tongue in cheek energy and creativity.
Through a narration composed with hands down excellent writing and great voice actor performances the plot pivots unpredictably between the whimsical and surprisingly darker territories. although most of this is played for satire through banterings between our heroes and villains as background noise while playing the game, it's still very fun and well synced dialogues to what happens on screen as you play.
The unpredictable nature of Uprising also carries through the presentation, set pieces to hazards and enemy designs.
For every stage there are jaw drop moments of realisation and discoveries, with a good handful of laugh out moments for silly attention to details to splendours of soaring through space and below waters. It's simply a joyride throughout.
Every stage presents their own tune of aestetical values as you slice, dice and barrage enemies through a technical two segmented gameplay foundation. Mainly from the preluding and cinematic sky shooter parts into the more technical and semi platformy ground combat segments.
It is unfortunate that the biggest gamekeeper in Uprising is namely the controls that requires heavy hand coordinations for both moving and aiming around at the same time, in addition to absorbing everything happening on screen.
The control schemes asks a lot from the player, not to mention the durability of the 3ds analog as you need to flick from left to right, to constantly dash around or dodge enemy projectiles and the likes.
Once you get to grips with the controls it only gets better from there as you unlock better weapons and can adjust
the difficulty to your liking from playing it safe to harder difficulties to keep on unlocking better gears.
In addition to the main story there's a lot of collectables and different weapons to alter melee, range and movement speed. There's plenty of game optimising to play around with which adds up for great replay value.
Not to mention there's a multiplayer mode with arena combat and seperate modes, which to my delight were still active when I tried it out.
Whether you're soaring through the skies, or sweeping through the grounds. Uprising will light your path with its divine tongue in cheek energy and creativity.