Ice Cream Surfer

I have bought this game in a bundle. Well, I am glad I did, because I didn't really like it. Let me explain you why. At the beginning, there was this game called GRADIUS by Konami. Konami thought "Let's make a parody of it!" and made created one of the best gaming series ever: PARODIUS! Memories! I remember playing that game on the SNES and on the very first Playstation console. Yes, THIS game is similar to Parodius. Oh, I wish there was an original Parodius port on Steam available! Unfortunately, there is none. And this game failed me...and I will tell you a few lines later why. Remember the humour the Parodius series had to offer? Well, I do. Vegetables, natural food, goofy bosses and angry animals are trying to kill you this time and you have to dodge them and/or their bullets, hearts or whatever they are shooting at you. I must say the creators did a good job with the character and level designs. Everything is colorful and humorous. Now you might think "wait a minute, seems you like it! Why the thumbs down then?" K, here is the answer: The controls are the reason! I started the game after a couple of issues (I will explain that a few lines later), and pushed the down-key after the 1st level started. I don't know if you know this Arcade game called Tapper's, where you move up and down and switch to fixed positions. It felt like my character in this game moved down and stopped at certain position where I thought there are some kind of "lanes" and you move your character up and down to swtich between these. No, the thing was, there weren't any fixed positions, you can move your character by keeping the direction keys pushed. Guess what: You can't tell if your character will stop moving after you release the direction key. It might still be moving a little bit more, or stop immediately. Well, imagine you release the direction key and your character keeps moving to the same direction before it finally stopss...at the wrong position where it catches an enemy bullet! This happened to me. And then, there is this thing with the control settings in the main menu. Right after I started the game, I didn't know which key I had to push to enter the selected menu. Rushing over all key on my keyboard, I made it to the keyboard settings menu. It didn't show you any list of the keys, but instead it asked me to choose which key shall be used for what (left, right, up, down, attack, super-attack, pause). First it asked me "", then "Press a key for right", etc... Oh, that "" I just mentioned is true, the words "Press a key for up" are missing, so I saw no text instead. Right, did I forget to mention anything? I guess not. If they can fix the controls, it'd be great. But with these broken controls, it's not fun.

[u] Summary: [/u] A poor port of a game that's missing one of the basic mechanics you need in a shoot em up: fun. While having an interesting premise and some cool character designs all around, the game fails to deliver as levels are way too easy at times and literally lack any sort of oompf to them whatsoever. The game's graphics could use improvement overall, but the bigger problem comes when character designs clash against the background in terms of being able to see enemies and or bullets against it. Honestly, I can go on here about what the game did wrong, and what the game needs, but in the end: it isn't fun, and that's a major problem for a game that's attempting to get your attention, in particular in this genre. It lacks the energy and the execution needed to really stand out. [b] Gameplay and Video First Impressions: http://youtu.be/KnxvsW6Ky10[/b] [u]Lists:[/u] +: [list] [*] Some good character designs, in particular with boss monsters, and using the material of ice cream/veggies well. [*] Cute premise and could work well with kids. Audio of characters are fine and reasonably well done. Was unexpected [*] Different characters play differently with a reasonable change up in what they do. [/list] -: [list] [*] Lacks a fun factor. Boring, repetitive, and down right just meh. [*] The game's inconsistencies within its world and gameplay will show up right away, whether it be attempting to pick up a powerup only to find you have to shoot it first, or what you are fighting. A very uneven experience. [*] Minimal effort to port. Coop players score elements show up here, controls for controller don't bind themselves naturally to industry standards, and frankly transitions to other parts of the game are down right awkward. [*] The environment clashes with gameplay at times which is a huge problem. Don't put the same shades of white in the background and on enemies that you are expecting people to see without any issue. [*] Specials lack oompf in several cases, and feel like a waste. In one or two instances, I died when an uncontrollable special happened (which seems like a prime reason not to use it.). [*] 1 Achievement that literally was given when starting the game. If you're not going to use them, don't bother with them, you don't have to have them on Steam. [*] Weird inconsistency in player models from character to character without anything to counterbalance it. [*] Crackers in bikinis are just weird. I may be a horrible person for thinking this, but it stand out against the kiddish nature of everything else. [/list] [b] If you want more reviews/information regarding games I've reviewed, visit my curator. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/6861768/]Dragnix Curator [/url][/b]

not good at all.

一个奇奇怪怪的游戏~设定也很奇怪！反正是个射击游戏就是了！ 我还没玩呢！它就解锁了99%的成就... 窗口化选项似乎是假的，进入游戏依旧全屏！！还好我会Ctrl+Enter！！ 但是没几下又变成全屏了！？这特么在逗我么？ 然后进入游戏，故事似乎是食物大战！！！？？？然后看到了几个主角！ https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1975622445 似乎不错呢！？那我要选最右边的美少女战士！嗯嗯！ 键盘上所有按键都按了，结果发现A键是攻击+选择+左移~？ 神特么设定，于是我本来选择的是棉花糖上的美少女战士的，结果变成丑哔哔的超人！！！气死~~~ 然后第一个Boss~what~？这么卡哇伊的Boss么？？ https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1975622456 它还不反手的！！有种主角才是大Boss的赶脚！！！emmm！！！！

Could be a nice retro sidescroller & shoot'em'up, but the console port is simply too poor. There must be a function in Unity that you drop a finished console game into a container and make immediately a Steam title of it. Unfortunately there are some resolution issues on PC. It flips everytime into fullscreen here, even if windowed mode is bewished. The controls are totally unknown in the first moment (m for menu? seriously?) . So is the button how to exit the game. The graphics and music are nice but you can hardly distinguish enemy bullets from power pickups. So I played the first level for the achievement. Wish there was more to discover.

Finalizei esse jogo ruim, quase perdi meus dedos de tanto atirar e desviar e no fim a conquista não veio.

So unspeakably bad, the only jolly thing is that by default you can't actually choose any menu options, giving you a good reason to quit immediately. (Unfortunately I found the button that lets you reach the place where you can rebind the controls, and then got to enjoy them in all their bizarre delay. The game even wanted me to kill some super-cute animals. Ban it, I say.)

8bit retro shooter, 'cute' story but controller support is sketchy with a common Logitech F310, so I had to use keyboard. Still 10 minutes to get the one achievement gained after clearing the first level. Cheap bundle game, and thats about it. 4/10 in a bundle for about 35c, but you will be unhappy at $2.99.

WTF !! แค่เข้าเกมส์ก็ได้ครบทุก ACM ละ ยังกะ hack ยังไงยังงั้น ปล.ไม่สนุกเลย คอนโทรลห่วยแตก แค่เข้ามาเอา perfect achievement

A mindless side scroller shooter game. Very poor PC port and the controls are hard to master. Suitable for small kids though. Please take note that one of the achievements is not working.