Gunmetal Arcadia Zero

This is a 2D retro pixel platformer/hack and slash melee game where you control an orange pixel blob and jump around murdering blobs of other colours. Despite being released in 2016 the game is 4:3 instead of widescreen (could the developer only afford to use a CRT monitor found in a dumpster?) Ugly pixel graphics, lazy 2D gameplay in the 3D era, and a mismatched style as the developer goofed when trying for retro and didn't use retro "art" on the main menu which is just admission that they know they could have done better, but different. There's an inexplicable $8.50 price tag for this bundle filler trash.

[h1]5/10[/h1] This is certainly a game. It's not bad, but it's not really good either. I think I got this from a humble monthly bundle way back and never played it. Honestly, I wasn't really missing out on much. It's old and nostaligic-ish, but as someone who actually grew up with the games this is trying to emulate, it just doesn't really get what made those old games special. The game very much just uses the "idea" of the NES without any of the actual game design that went into those old NES games. I really wish there was a neutral option on Steam for games specifically like this one. There just isn't really anything to say about it. For me, looking at the price tag, I'm giving this a thumbs-down. It is just not worth the $6. There are longer, better, and more "NES accurate" games out there for less and even free. itch.io is a great place to find NES-like games for $1 or free with many of them being incredible experiences if you get one suited to your tastes.

스피디한 8비트 고전게임의 건메탈 아르카디아 제로입니다. 이미 주변 사람들이 영웅부터 잘나가고 있는 중이니 세상을 구할 필요 없고 쉬엄쉬엄 살아도 되는 주인공의 모험을 다루고 있습니다. 복고풍의 확실한 컨셉이 있기 때문에 조작감의 단순함이나 빡센 플렛폼 점프, 익숙하지 않으면 파훼가 힘든 공격들을 하는 적들이나 숨겨진 방과 많은 보물상자 등등.. 고전게임들에서 느낄 수 있는 요소들을 굉장히 많이 배치해놨습니다. 이런 류의 게임들을 빡세게 잘 하실 수 있는 분들에게 추천드립니다. 판정도 나쁘지 않고 게임성도 괜찮은 편입니다. 가시함정이나 낙사 함정이 많고 게임이 3번 죽으면 그냥 게임 오버라서 스토리를 즐기고 싶은 분들은 생각보다 빡세게 도전해야합니다... ㅜ

Short and not terribly interesting. Go play this dev's "you have to win the game" or "super win the game". Those are quite good.

This game is not inherently bad, however, it has inherently bad design choices. Example, there are enemy placements which make them hard, if not impossible, to be able to dodge and do a no hit run. There is not enough money in one run, unless you know beforehand, that you need lava immunity in order to not take damage in the final dungeon. There are flying enemies that make it extremely hard to not take damage and fall. There are enemies place specifically in some spots to knock you back into instant death spikes. There are enemies placed in such ways that they can hit you off screen for damage. The game wants you to take damage, and will go out of its way to do so. The lives system is, in essence, not even needed, as you can just continue anyway, only you lose progress. It's an artifact of the time it's trying to emulate, but without the actual punishment of no continues by virtue of having a save system. The game is short, very much so if you know what you're doing. Even without it, you will get maybe 3 hours, if that, from the game, more if you're going for beating it under 30 minutes and keep messing up. This is not to say it's a bad thing, it's just something to keep in mind if you're going to consider getting it. This is a very edge case game for me. I'm very slightly more on the side of a recommend, but I wish there was a neutral option to select.

[h1]Gameplay: 3/10[/h1] [h1]Graphics & Sound: 4/10[/h1] [h1]Narration: 3/10[/h1] ✔️ Minimalistic old school graphics and music that some people might enjoy. ✔️ The game seems to work without issues. ❌ The gameplay gets repetitive pretty fast in my opinion. ❌ Weird decision to make the first basic enemies you meet require to crouch to hit them, leading to peculiar issues such as not being able to hit the most basic enemy while standing on the top of a ladder... ❌ You might need to repeat huge parts of levels on death, that discouraged me from giving it any more time. ❌ The same seems to apply to game reloads - if you leave the game and restart it, you might have to go again through quite a bit of content. ❌ I'm under the impression that once you spend all your lives the game makes you restart from 0...? ❌ Didn't go through a lot of story but it seems very basic and uninspired. I might not be the public for this game, but I just saw no interest in keeping playing it.

Secrets are easily found, colors and textures are not easy to look at, and getting hit by enemies who are off-screen is a thing. The pink level, so I don't spoil anything, has a lot of instant death and hopefully you are really good at avoiding obstacles that cause instant level restarts. Good luck, but I do not recommend unless you plan on speedrunning.

Joguinho tranquilo de pegar platina. apesar de ter conquista de speedrun da pra zerar ele em menos de 30 minutos suave. recomendo pra quem quer um joguinho curto pra passar o tempo. o único problema mesmo são as artes usadas nas historinhas que ficaram bem ruins, mas nada que atrapalhe a gameplay.