Not be confused with Space War, Galactic Space War is a first-person shooter, which took me a few moments to actually realise. You have to move around the screen aiming for 00, but the way the number decreases and how you "move towards it" feels very very strange, and I ended up hitting the mark I was looking for more often when I actually stopped specifically chasing after it and just moved at random watching the number tick down. The CPU enemy also seems to only ever really get any hits on the target when you find it, so if you search out the spot, you might over shoot it or have it on screen for a few seconds, leading to the CPU getting it. Whereas if you move around at random, it just pops up and you shoot it immediatley making the game much easier. Its a weird one.

But you actually get 2 games in this one, as Game2 sees you land the ship, its a port of the arcade game Lunar Lander, the game only takes about 10 seconds, and if your ship even gets close to that ground or isn't perfectly sat on the landing pad. KABOOM! Both of these games are just, fine, although the punishment for actually playing the game properly on the first one kind of blew it for me.

Reviewed on Apr 29, 2023


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