A Small Robot Story

We had a taste; a taste for adventure and would inevitably find ourselves in the middle of one all over again. A fun and challenging retro shooter in the vein of original NES Mega Man but with Mega Drive graphics. Four levels, four boss fights, some additional power ups and three or four static cut scenes. Nice pixel art, good palette choices, varied biomes, some tough enemies, fair boss battles. Some decent but repetitive chip tunes, reasonable animation, old school story. A Small Robot Story does not revolutionise anything, but certainly revisits and reverently retreads familiar ground. If you blasted through NES games in your youth, this might not be tough enough for you, but it was more than enough for an old fella like me and I was pleased when I finally finished the last battle. This is a single sitting game. There is no way to save progress, although seasoned gamers might run through in an hour or so. There are instaKILL pits lurking for the unwary, some enemy attacks are difficult to avoid, losing all your lives on a boss fight will result in having to restart the whole level. For all those people who managed to complete this game without taking damage, well done, I'm genuinely impressed. Great work from mostly a one man team. And all for the low low price of nothing at all. I like bc.

A Small Robot Story is a pretty fun and fast paced platformer that feels properly modular in its speed and playstyle, but it has a particular preference in that style. The boss battles are pretty fun and they scale in difficulty appropriately. Pros: The response time and fluidity of playing feels great. The pixelated art direction looks nice, and there is a lot of great animation. The music is really really good, especially the 3rd level. There is a lot of love and care in this release from the developer, and you can see it. Cons: Areas are pretty sprawling, but the level design doesn't feel intuitive, so to say. They are certainly long enough, though. There is little reward for exploration aside from batteries, so there is little reason than to "run through the maze". Likewise, there is no reward really for killing enemies, either. This angles the playstyle to be fast, linear and pacifistic. Overall, I really like the game. It was a lot of fun and because my initial playthrough didn't "catch" the desired playstyle until the last level, it will likely drive me to try other ways to beat it. It's not an incredibly long game, but for the price it's most certainly a good time.

Yeah... NO. I'd write a more in detail review but I got to the second boss lost all 3 of my lives and noped out of this one. Since in a game requiring you to beat the game without damage once to earn an achievement I'm not putting myself through that kind of torture.

Мужики, спасайте, если наберём 10 лайков и 5 наград, то жена подарит ящик пива

A Small Robot Story is a free to play 2D retro pixel platformer/shooter where you control a little robot. You can (single) jump and you can also shoot baddies that move along the platforms. Yep, it's just one of literally thousands of 2D retro pixel platformers infesting Steam and driving down the average quality of video games everywhere. Gameplay isn't particularly good, controls are "too snappy". For a platformer to even be considered close to any of the other thousands on Steam, the control handling and feeling needs to be perfect, and it isn't here... partly due to a poor choice in game engine. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The game is completely free. This is noble a gesture that shows dedication to both gamers, and the gaming industry. Nothing speaks more to a developers belief in themselves and their product than making their game available for everyone without remuneration. It's a shame in this case that the implementation is below the minimum standards a dedicated PC game should offer to enthusiasts. There's no "maybe" option in Steam, unfortunately, but I hope to see more work from this developer, perhaps as part of a professional game development company that can make full use of their talents without needing to make budget/quality compromises.

Originally a $4.99 game that went Free. Pretty meh. No incentives along the way besides health, just get from point A to B.

for free very good. can recommend it.

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