FullBlast

The game revolves around a long shot hero pilot, single handily saving the planet from an alien invasion. Very standard premise for a SCMUP. It all about that action. 12 levels in FullBlast with three difficulties to choose from. In those levels there is a bit of repletion with the enemy types and locations. Scenery is mostly City, but it does change to traveling over Water. There are 6 small fodder enemies that look like insects, 2 mini boss types with different color palette that show up as helicopter or mid sized ship, and 12 bosses. The enemy patterns are easy to read, it pretty easy to get to the boss. It only when you play the boss does it get challenging. The first few levels feel fresh, but after a while seeing the same enemies bar the boss gets tiring. Landscape changes every 4 levels. Would have liked to have seen more weapon types as drops. Even as a Time Limited Weapon. You have standard shooter, and each weapon fire upgrade you pick up add a line of fire up to a max of 4. After that the color of the weapon changes. If you lose one life, you go back to basic weapon. An emphasis dodging and preserving your power. There also other drops like 2x score, faster or slower fire rate, extra bomb and extra life. I will say I do like the enemy designs, the design of the ship, the building. The Sound effects and the smooth movement of the ship. The heavy metal track as good as it is, will make you turn off the track. It the only track from level 1-12 (bar the Final Boss at Level 12). I would recommend it for any casual players to the genre. For veterans of the genre maybe wait for a sale. I spent a dollar on it during a sale (knew at the time Ratalaika was on the console ports). FullBlast gets a 5.5 out of 10. Worth what I spent on it, but did lost interest 20 minutes in. Played a bit of it on Steam. Got the Platinum for the Vita Version. Played all 12 levels on PS4. I did receive a Review Copy for the Console version. The Steam version was a personal purchase. There no Mouse Support. Since you are shooting in one direction, it might not be that useful. It may have been nice for moving around. Really smooth anyways. If you use a Gamepad, the experience is much better. Keys can be mapped. FullBlast Video Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQxaEdmZQSc FullBlast Gameplay/Platinum Run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Kx-VRbXlo