MilitAnt

TL/DR "A Bug's Life" for adults. 10/10 At first I was a little skeptical about this game since its a new developer, but I took a leap of faith and it was well worth it. This fast paced, run-jump-ang-gun, 2-D/3-Dish platform shooter action game is a real challenge. Enemies come from everywhere and anywhere so tunnel vision peeps beware. I think I raged more on the last couple levels than in the entire Dark Souls series, but when I finally beat the bosses it felt like separating those flat Lego pieces when I was a kid, THE EUPHORIA. In some cases it might feel like the enemies have an unfair advantage but you get used to it and become a complete bug-killing, dual-weilding, hornet-destroying, ant-harbinger-of-death bad-a**. Weapons are awesome. Big variety. And variety as in you can burn, shock, shoot, perforate, rocket, sentry gun down any enemy. And that's half the list. Or if you aren't a wuss then use your bad-a** ant pincers to melee the crap out of enemies, because your an ANT. Bosses... I'll just leave it there so you can see for yourself. The story. Amazing and simple. Sick looking hornets are the air force, scarabs have huge artillery, beetles are bad a** samurais, termites are the ants arch nemesises... nemeseess? nemesiis? Anyways, the story gives the bug's world a new perspective, one which we all dreamed of when we used to wet our beds at night. It's like those YouTube videos titled Wasp vs. Tarantula except with GUNS and SWORDS (and actually entertaining). As for game bugs...well theres a fu**load of them. Technical issues (glitches or bugs) it has very few to none. I can't remember a time where I experienced a technical or programming issue. DO NOT USE KEYBOARD AND MOUSE. USE GAMEPAD. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

MilitAnt is a 2.5D shooter. Termites, Wasps, Scorpions are trying to destroy your colony and you must go to war against them. The concept is pretty neat. With gameplay inspired from Shoot Many Robots and has many similarities to it. [h1]Graphics:[/h1] The graphics of this game are not the best. When you start off, you’re in a cave or underground setting. The colors and the backgrounds look colorless, dulls and boring whereas the second level is outside and much better compared to the first one. I think if they went with a more 2D cartoony or even cel-shaded art-style, it would’ve been much better choice given the theme of the game. Still, you can consider the graphics to be good post level 1. The game is locked at 60 FPS and I didn’t notice any major framedrops and majority of the time the game ran fine and smooth. [h1]Sound:[/h1] The music in this game is pretty good. It sounds like one of those epic war/battles theme orchestra music. This makes the boss battles pretty intense. There is voice narration between levels telling the story of these military ants. The voice narrator does a good job in my opinion. [h1]Gameplay:[/h1] Ok if you guys have played the game called “Shoot many robots”, you’d feel right at home. This game is clearly very much inspired from that game. You can move left and right, jump and double jump, dash/dodge. You can even dash midair like Megaman. You have guns and a melee attack. The melee attack can deflect bullets if timed correctly and the bullets will fly back to the enemy shooter and kill/hurt them. You can hold 2 weapons at a time and have 2 sets of weapons. You can switch them on the fly, though both hands’ weapons would be changed at the same time if you press ‘Q’, there is an option to switch each weapon individually too. You regularly have to switch weapons as they can get hot and won’t work till they cool down. You can shoot both weapons at the same time as well. You start off with 2 puny pistols which overheat super-fast and don’t do much damage. Later you can unlock more weapons such as flamethrower, rocket launcher, machine gun etc., using gems which you can get from playing the levels. The first level’s enemies are termites, the later levels start throwing more enemies at you like the annoying wasps in second level, beetles. Etc. There’s a lot of variety of enemies. There’s a background layer as well where enemies can spawn and shoot bullets at you in the foreground. To kill these enemies, you must aim directly at them and once you lock on and shoot them, your bullets should go towards the background instead of straight 2D in line. The boss battles can be pretty nice as bosses don’t die that fast and are sort of bullet spongy. You have health bar with little dividers in between. So if your health is higher than any of these dividers, it’ll regenerate health till that little part is full. You get these health drops from enemies and the big health packs are also in specific spots, like before boss battles etc. Checkpoints are plenty and generous. The game has its fair share of problems too. I noticed the controls are not that great. They are just not responsive. The controls are also a bit delayed, like if you want to deflect bullet you better press ‘E’ (melee/deflect button) like a second before the enemy bullet is next to you or you’d miss and get hurt by the bullet. On the other hand, you can just stand at one place and spam ‘E’ and kill most enemies like that. The way enemies spawn is also a bit weird. You’d be walking and a whole bunch of enemies would come out of the ground right next to you and right behind you. Thematically that makes sense as termites/bugs can crawl out of the ground but it’s annoying. Once these enemies surround you they throw you all over the place and when you’re getting hit most of the time you can’t do anything about it as there is a bit of a pause when you get hurt. A short gameplay of level 1 and 2 can be found below: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=729226138 [b][u]Graphics: 6/10[/u][/b] [b][u]Sound: 8/10[/u][/b] [b][u]Gameplay: 6/10[/u][/b] [b][u]Overall: 7/10[/u][/b] [h1]Conclusion:[/h1] The game has an interesting story and very nice music and okay-ish graphics. The boss battles are interesting and can be challenging. The game itself can be a bit hard. There are some control responsiveness issues as mentioned above but the game is playable nonetheless. I would recommend to pick this game up during sales or if you’re a fan of 2.5D scroller/shooters, then go ahead and buy it.

Militant is a really cool concept of a game, unfortunately ruined by harsh flaws. Only 45 minutes? Let me explain... To start, The game was obviously made for handheld (PS Vita) in mind. It has very high-res Pixar quality cut-scenes and then really bad texture work in the actual game. Level design really hearkens to the PS1 days, obstacles and such, it almost feels Crash Bandicoot-ish in a way. The character designs are well done, they are cool and make sense. The gameplay is more or less a 2D side-scrolling platformer with shooting elements. The thing that this game does differently is that you can shoot things in the background and they can shoot at you. The main character is pretty cool and there is a pretty cool way of upgrading your gun. Since you have 4 arms, you can switch out weapons. It's a pretty cool way of replacing the invisible backpack way of things we usually see in shooters. My first problem with the game is the process of changing resolution to 4K, the option is there but no matter how many times I tried, it would revert to 1080p or 1440p resolutions. It's frustrating to see it had to effects, as if the game was mocking me. The thing that really broke my experience is the save file bug that others are experiencing. My save file somehow got corrupted and the pre-game menu asks if you want to replace it. I hit yes and it says "replacing save file" then it says "Exiting game". Start the game back up and the save file is still corrupted. Ask the community for help "Go into your drive and delete the save file manually" so I go into the drive and there is nothing, no save file. I have tried everything from compatability settings to re-installing and verifying files, nothing works. So I can't recommend the game. I think if you own a Vita it would be okay on there but this is a very strange experience.

This game is super fun to play and super hard to master, ive been gaming for a long time and this game really came as a challenge. The game just improves as you progress and the weapons just make everything come together.

In a world were bugs are actual features, you take control of a commando ANT ready to kick bug butt. Militant centers it's gameplay on multi-line platforming/shooting, and its mechanics for weapon loadout customization means that you'll be able to adapt your weapons to your preferred combat style. Targeting using the tap-lock becomes easy and allows for simultaneous combat and dodging, providing fast paced action.

Ha este juego lo pondría en la lista de jefes enfermos, el juego es muy entretenido pero no es apto para quienes quieren las cosas fáciles, el juego tiene una gran dificultad sobretodo con los jefes, los cuales son los mas difíciles que he visto. Realmente recomiendo este juego sobretodo para los que quieren cosas difíciles. Para mí es un gran titulo.

Análise a MilitAnt em vídeo. SATISFATÓRIO! 5/10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ69n1NQ37E

Nice Game ,price might be a little high but its fun and adictive with plenty of levels to keep you at it. Have a Quick Look Below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66U6tnEhOWk

Like or hate my review, I simply can not recommend this game. At first, I loved it. But after a few levels I started to realize just how much some of the games mechanics got in the way of other mechanics. The game literally fights itself. You have weapon unlocks, but you can only use ONE of a specific weapon at a time, which was a major let down. Some of the bosses were just plain annoying and unoriginal. I remember one oss specifically that I ABSOLUTELY ADORED though, but I won't spoil it. The fight was intense, but very creative. The boss patterns were avoidable, and very learnable if not immediately obvious (unlike some other bosses whos attacks were repetitive and uninspired). The game is fairly hard. Sometimes thats fine. This game would have been fun as a challenging game, if some of the challenge wasn't the controls. It's been so long since I olayed the game I can't remember specificallt what the issue was... But It's one of the only titles out of 400+ i own on steam that I have abandoned after a rage quit or 10. Which tells me there's something wrong. If my review isn't helpful, sorry. I'm simply trying to express this game isn't fun past the first few levels. It has some interesting mechanics, that sadly clash with other mechanics to make everything redundant. And oh... If you like enemies that pop up out of nowhere at your FEET, and being stun locked with no I frames upon being hit, thus taking a leathal amount of damamge while being forced to stand there for a few seconds... Then this game is for you. Spoilers: I would never recommend this game. Thank you for the code though. The first 2 or 3 levels were fun, and the giant catapillar boss was amazing. If only the game had more of those moments.

Le nom est génial, le concept d’affrontement entre les fourmis, les abeilles et les scarabées l’est tout autant… Mais alors, que l’exécution est ratée ! Petit projet en 3D criant tout fort “ne faites plus jamais ça dans vos productions !”, MilitAnt propose un shoot/plateforme finalement en 2.5D avec des tirs lents et imprécis, des ennemis stoïques et trop précis, ainsi que des boss à la barre de vie immense et aux patterns complètement injustes. Les problèmes s’enchaînent très vite : les niveaux sont excessivement long (au minimum 15 minutes), la visée automatique pour les ennemis apparaissent en arrière plan (une bonne idée) et complètement buggée (mauvaise idée, finalement) et la répétitivité est incroyable de non-sens. Comment les développeurs ont-ils fait pour ne pas se rendre compte de celle-ci ? Le personnage se bloque sur les ennemis, ceux-ci nous tirent dessus dans des passages étroits de façon à énerver plutôt qu’amuser… Non, vraiment, rien ne vient sauver MilitAnt de l’oubli. On peste devant son écran, jamais le jeu ne parvient à être amusant et le pire dans tout cela, c’est les rares bonnes choses qui viennent se greffer à ce désastre. Les compositions musicales sont intéressantes, les artworks sont réussis, mais en jeu c’est l’hécatombe. C’est un pur projet “étudiant” qui a oublié d’être peaufiné. Nul doute qu’il y a un tas de talent derrière ce jeu, mais ils n’ont pas su se regrouper intelligemment pour en faire quelque chose de réellement amusant. A fuir. Source : http://www.gamesidestory.com/2016/08/01/rapides-critiques-aout-2016/