Paladin

Fans of classic Defender-like arcade shoot'emup action will be entralled with Paladin and its city protecting space action. With multitudes of upgrades and ships, a rad as heck soundtrack, and massive bosses it's a Defender for modern times. In the spirit of Puppygames' classic brand of modernized classic formulas, infused with a bright and flashy visual and audio style Paladin takes the classic arcade shooting formula of the 80's and gives it an addictive flair with frenetic and fast combat through waves of increasingly chaotic variations of alien baddies. From Qix-style line creating spiral enemies to homing-missile launching dive bombers, the range and diversity of clever enemies to dodge and destroy is impressive. It's intense, flashy, bright, and attractive. It's addictive and it sounds damn good to the ears. Paladin is a bliss-out for retro arcade fans. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=891179685

Do you like Puppygames' stuff? Titan Attacks, Revenge of the Titans, Droid Assault, Ultratron etc. This is right up that alley. It has the great music, loads of great style, blowing up things up, and being blown up. You can turn off flashing screen effects, for all of you that don't want to risk a brainwrong, the sweet CRT filter is optional, and so is bloom. It's basically Defender and Asteroids with upgrades between levels and different classes of ship. It has loads of checkpoints and three difficulty settings, Easy, Normal, and Hard. I've been bashing away on Normal and getting on great while dying a lot, I can imagine Hard being just that. It's loud sonically and visually. I love it.

A somewhat basic twin stick shooter but that doesn't make it bad. Multiple ships and different upgrades make this somewhat enjoyable, enough so I beat it! I enjoy the risk/reward that comes from having to swoop in to collect the money after you kill an alien. The level 20 boss is a real tough guy so watch out. Further thoughts, https://youtu.be/6iwxxXrack0

This game is fun in and of itself for the most part. It's mostly just a twin stick shooter with a little bit of a defender element to it. It's really good for achievement hunters, as it only takes less than an hour to get every achievement. If you're a fan of the twin stick shooter genre, you'll likely be able to get some amount of enjoyment out of this, especially with how cheap the game is. I'd recommend this to fans of the genre, especially if you can get it on sale. The only issue I can really think of is how much content is here.

very fun game the only problem i have is not being able to find the soundtrack anywhere but this game

The visuals and controls are fantastic. Enemy designs are also pretty creative. Only complaint is that the enemies are also often hard too see.

Great little arcade game, very polished and responsive. It's essentially defender, but less frustrating and with metaprogression mechanics. If you are into the puppy games aesthetics (and why wouldn't you) this should be right up your alley. Soundtrack is also very good.