ExZeus 2 (Legacy)

Bought this game for Android a while ago when it was part of the Humble Bundle. Thoroughly enjoyed it on a mobile device, though I wasn't particular good at the game. Since it was fun I added the game to my Steam Wishlist and when it was released today, I straight away bought it. In the game you fly a mecha robot "on a rail" shooting down invading aircraft. In between the flying parts of the level your robot lands on roofs or roads to combat enemies walking or flying around him. In other sections your robot drives a fast vehicle through streets. Each different combat section requires a different play style adding much variety to the level design. Having just completed the first level, which incorperates all game play styles stated above, I have moved on to level 2 which is in the format of a traditional space shooter game. So again, a different kind of gameplay experience. The game is fast paced, and at least for a fairly new player like me, quite difficult. I died a lot. The game is forgiving however, ending up being "Game Over" provides the option to restart the game at the last save point. Despite having spent limited time in the game, I had a lot of fun playing my way through the first level, and for the cheap price would definiatelly recommend it to players who like casual shooter games. Specially given the game can be played from the couch with a controller. Might update this review further after having spent some more time in the game.

2009年にスマホに登場したExZeus。その4年後（2013年）にExZeus 2が発売。 本作はそのPC移植版になります。現在は価格が下がりiOS版は240円で売っています。 …というものをPCで倍の値段で売っている現状を踏まえてレビューです。 非常に良く出来た３Dシューティングという印象です。 単に空中戦だけでなく地上戦もあり、近接攻撃も可能 後、バイクやバギーに乗車し進んでいく場所もあり飽きさせない演出や工夫があります。 敵をロックオンすると自動でミサイルが飛んでくれますし、シールドや自分の体力をステージクリア後に資金で回復できるので初心者にも優しい難易度になっていると思います。 「スマホ版は半額なんかい！」 と多少突っ込みたくなる点はありますが、PCに最適化されていることを考えると 全然許せます。 息抜きにおすすめのタイトルです。

The old version of ExZeus 2, packed in with the Complete Collection of both games. This is the better version of ExZeus 2, because it's not plagued by the resolution being fixed at 624x464 or a stretched version of it, but it's still not a good game, being a mediocre rail shooter that changes to various other minigames - most notably and frequently a terrible third-person-shooter mode - which are almost all strictly worse than the basic game mode. The top-down shooter mode for "deep space" stages is kind of fun, but still, a pretty easy skip.

I'm surprised to find that ExZeus 2 is pretty much the closest to a StarFox 64-style game I've seen on Steam so far... It's got a good arcadey pace to it, with things happening all over that you have to react to and lots of mode switching to different kinds of action sequences. The main 3D shmup sequences are intense but tightly controlled with lots of shooting. However: the constant mode switching means that they've implemented a bunch of different little action games, and I don't like all of them equally. The combat on foot part is by far my least favorite, and the most common. Turning around and shooting enemies feels like driving a drunk pig, and it seems like they think that this mode is a good way to show you new character models, with little introductions each time a mechanically indistinguishable enemy is introduced, but this game isn't good- or strange-looking enough for that to entertain me much at all. There's a bit of a theme-mechanics disconnect in the minigames too, you're flying along powerfully, shooting down helicopters in the depths of space, and then suddenly your robot lands to have a fist fight brawl with a pack of velociraptors. You're trying to get to an 80 foot tall Kaiju so you can kill it and save the world, why are you stopping to fight velociraptors who don't even have guns and can't even threaten any civilians because there aren't any civilians in this solar system? I'm also pretty bothered that you can't hold down the attack button to shoot.

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