B-12

Some alright gameplay and platforming is vastly overshadowed by inane design choices and bugs. You know what a shooter game is supposed to have? Guns. What do those guns shoot? Bullets, or lasers, or something meant to hurt an enemy. How do you feel about flipping a coin to determine whether you actually shoot something or not when there is no kind of gun jamming mechanic? Don't like that? Too bad, every gun is fickle and behaves as it wishes. I noticed this within the first few minutes so how on Earth is this not fixed?? This game is a perfect example of why hand made levels are far superior to randomized levels. The randomization isn't even used to any good degree; the levels more or less have the same core design and then things in it just get swapped around. Instead of going to A, B, C, D, it might be C, A, D, B instead. 3-3 is the absolute worst example as it's possible you will be unable to proceed due to the majority of the level simply being out of reach, forcing you to die over and over to get a valid level layout. The combination of a rogue-like and instant death from a bad jump is evil. Hell, sometimes the game knows it failed generating a level so badly it has to redo it on its own. I expect this from an alpha, not a full release. And if you think the jetpack will help, it doesn't work when you're in cold areas, so joke's on you. Levels 4-2 and 4-3 are their own special kind of hell. The shop isn't even present after 4-1, so you better not die! 4-2 is a very tiny labyrinth filled with enemies, both flying and land, and made up of only breakable walls. You could quite literally shoot out the floor beneath you and die. If you're not swarmed to death at the very beginning, pending a luck roll. 4-3 is a giant level of "the floor is lava" and "5 minibosses are crawling around it". While you don't [i]need[/i] the jetpack here, it vastly helps to defeat bad level generation otherwise. And as a super secret bonus treat, if you die too many times in a level, you get kicked out for no reason and are forced to redo the start of that zone. Play the first 2 zones, maybe the 3rd, then uninstall this and forget about it unless those bugs are fixed.

Cheap TPS/FPS hybrid with solid platforming and shooting. Randomized levels, clean visuals and fun arcade gameplay full of jumping, shooting and exploring. Even has full body awareness which shows attention to detail. Greatly polished and optimized experience that pays homage to megaman X series with more emphasis on movement. Maybe a bit lacking in scope, but dev clearly had vision and heart for it. Totally worth it.

"B-12" looks and feels like a student project or something... it's a small tech demo which you expect from student projects, but this was a paid product. Also, it looks and feel sincerely, if not well made, unlike asset flips. I'm at a bit of a loss. Perhaps I'm jaded from all the nasty shovelware on Steam that I'm genuinely surprised by sincerely made amateur games. What do you do in the game? Not much unfortunately... it's a simple third person shooter with 4 procgen (sigh) levels that aren't really worth your time, and I think in this case it's a shame. In terms of visuals, this features fairly low quality low poly 3D visuals which will deter a lot of gamers, understandably. Gaming is a visual medium, and while some developers struggle with creating high quality visuals, failing to do so is a disservice to gamers. It's very difficult to recommend bad looking games. The developer chose not to do the job of a real game developer and create meaningful bespoke levels, narrative based gameplay progression and so on. Instead, they decided that "Procgen IS content!" and lazily tried to use procgen algorithms to create infinite, samey, repetitive, soulless levels, because that's a lot less work. As a result of this poor decision, the game gets tired and repetitive almost immediately. Developers must learn that procgen is a terrible substitute for creating real content. It should not be used as "ez-mode" for content creation, as the developer tried to do here. It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging $10 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It's a nice gesture for the game to be given away for free, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at less than 100 concurrent players, they couldn't even break three figures, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.

There must have been something in this game that I enjoyed for me to play it to completion even though I was frustrated and angry and enraged for large portions of the experience. Even though it seemed unbalanced and horribly unfair I stuck it out to the end. Did I have fun? I don't really think so. Did I feel a sense of accomplishment when I beat the final boss with only half a health bar left? Damn straight I did, it was super sweet, even though it was 4am and I felt like I'd been beating my head against a brick wall for the preceding five hours. Action platformer. Run, jump, shoot. Simple mechanics to understand, but unfortunately none of the mechanics are particularly well implemented. Movement is a little lob sided. Moving forward propels you in something like a seven degree angle to the right of centre. That's major flaw number 1. Your character can't walk in a straight line. Fine, you take that into account and make the necessary adjustments to your style of play. Then you discover that it's kinda tricky to judge jumping distances and how far you will travel while dashing. Okay fine, recalculate again and back into the action. A little less running, more measured jumps and then boom, you're blown to bits by enemy robots and laser firing security cameras. You will grit your teeth a lot. You will swear a lot. You will ask yourself, "am I enjoying this?" Your answer will depend on your capacity for suffering and pain. So two out of the three basic mechanics are slightly finicky "what then of the shooting?" I hear no one ask. Well as another reviewer mentions, it's something of a lucky dip, or maybe more accurately a Russian roulette. Fire your gun ten times, and you may observe somewhere between three to seven laser blasts. At no time during the game did I experience a one to one ratio for pressing fire and actually firing. Three mechanics, three problems with said mechaincs. So you learn to run in a straight line, you learn how to judge distances, and you try your best with your shots. You then begin to learn that you can jump up vertical surfaces, and this changes the way you approach levels, and you think AHA, NOW I'VE GOT IT! But you don't got it. You've never got it. You can't got it. In each of the randomly generated levels, you must locate and activate three switches which will power up a teleporter that allows you to progress to the next stage. Your basic weapon has three levels of charge, and each switch corresponds to one of these levels. A fully charged shot is enough to destroy some enemies in one blast, but much like the basic shooting, these charge shots are pretty hit and miss. You have to learn to hold the mouse button in, then click it again without releasing the original click. It sounds like a nightmare because it is. After three levels, you will face a boss before you can teleport to the next world. The bosses range from difficult to unfairly difficult. One boss has about ten different weapons all of which are better than yours. Another boss glues you to the floor and leisurely destroys you from afar. Another boss, well they're all variations on a theme of pain. Upgrades. The game has upgrades. Thank the robot gods for upgrades. Collect coins during levels, activate the shop, upgrade your gun, your armour, get a jet pack, get a shield generator and wooops, oh dear you just misjudged that jump again and now you've lost everything. This is not a rogue-lite, there are no permanent upgrades to make life easier. Unless you can afford to buy things in the shop, you will have to rely on your basic loadout, your wits, skill and luck. I will say that I completed the last level and the boss without any additional components, Just my basic laser and a secondary weapon picked up from an enemy. I very rarely used the jet pack as it is designed to lull you into a false sense of security. Unless you can complete the level with only the bare essential equipment then forget about it, you're only punishing yourself more by assuming upgrades will help you. What the heck am I thinking in recommending this then? None of this sounds like something you'd want to play right? Well, I did really enjoy the aesthetics. Not just the graphics which are simple and clean and functional, but the general presentation. The font used on the menus, the retro futurist design of the robots, the brutalist architecture of the levels. Then there's the music which is a nice assortment of lo-fi minimal electro tunes. Many of these again evoke a sense of old fashioned ideas of the future, like they were recorded by someone in the 1950s when trying to imagine the sounds of tomorrow. It all somehow adds up to setting a very specific tone which I just enjoyed after a while. Maybe I was just experiencing a kind of Stockholm syndrome. There is a level set in a hashtag shaped space station. The corridors are tight and there are dozens of highly mobile, heavily armed enemies actively pursuing you on the ground and in the air. Some of the walls are destructible. Most of the floor is destructible. Within minutes you will have blown holes all over the level and you will be relentlessly pursued no matter what strategy you adopt. You will fall and fall and fall and fall and fall and fall and fall and fall and explode. Then on one chance run, you will blow a hole in the floor at just the right moment to send half a dozen enemies falling to their deaths, you will find the three switches and you will teleport out to the next level, an absolute king among robots. Then the next level begins with ten enemies bursting into the room as you spawn in, all blowing you to pieces before you even have a chance to move. I hate loved it. I love hated it. Don't play this. Or go on, do play it. I dare you to play it you filthy cowards. Metal.

B-12, rastgele seviyelere ve eller için plazma topları olan amansız robotlara sahip zorlu, üçüncü/birinci şahıs aksiyon platform oyunudur.

I will recommend it just because even when I had no idea what I was doing, I was having a surprisingly fun time trying to figure it out, which is probably a hallmark of a good game. That said, the first level was a chill robot-jumping-and-shooting good time, and the second level was childhood memories of Robotron 2084, so this game is definitely not for me, as cool as it may be

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Это самай крутая и не интересная игра, которую я видел. Можно взять ради достижений - слава богу за бесплатно)

У игры есть потенциал, надо разработать сюжет, и может немного физику подтянуть