A nice arcade style rail shooter (mostly).
For me there a lot of good moments mixed in with some bad. The on rail sections were great - they are fast paced, exciting, control well and finish with tense boss fights. The game falters when it tries to switch things up. The dogfight sections are a bit clunkier and just aren't very fun. Aquas was also bad due to the Blue-Marine being slow and hard to aim. I'm guessing they wanted to add some variety, but that isn't really necessary in a game of this length and with the core rail shooter gameplay being so good.
I was initially disappointed by the short length once credits rolled but then I found out about the alternate routes and true ending which got me to do another playthrough. I was surprised to see I had only seen about half the stages. The route required for the true ending was fairly harder than my first playthough and provided a pleasant amount of challenge.
My only other criticism is the low frame rate and slowdown present. I would love to replay it at a smooth 60 fps, hopefully someone will get a patch working or maybe even a source port in the future. I'll have to give Star Fox 64 3D a go too.
I did enjoy my time with it and I am eager to try out some other rail shooters a go. It's a shame that the genre seems to have died out.
For me there a lot of good moments mixed in with some bad. The on rail sections were great - they are fast paced, exciting, control well and finish with tense boss fights. The game falters when it tries to switch things up. The dogfight sections are a bit clunkier and just aren't very fun. Aquas was also bad due to the Blue-Marine being slow and hard to aim. I'm guessing they wanted to add some variety, but that isn't really necessary in a game of this length and with the core rail shooter gameplay being so good.
I was initially disappointed by the short length once credits rolled but then I found out about the alternate routes and true ending which got me to do another playthrough. I was surprised to see I had only seen about half the stages. The route required for the true ending was fairly harder than my first playthough and provided a pleasant amount of challenge.
My only other criticism is the low frame rate and slowdown present. I would love to replay it at a smooth 60 fps, hopefully someone will get a patch working or maybe even a source port in the future. I'll have to give Star Fox 64 3D a go too.
I did enjoy my time with it and I am eager to try out some other rail shooters a go. It's a shame that the genre seems to have died out.