Panda vs Bugs

Игра 'Panda vs Bugs' — это неожиданно затягивающий платформер, который подкупает своей простотой и обаянием. Управлять милым, но боевым панда, крушащим орды жуков, — занятие, которое способно скрасить любой вечер. Механики прыжков и атак интуитивны, а дизайн уровней, хоть и не блещет сложностью, отлично справляется с задачей поддержания интереса. Особо радует разнообразие врагов, каждый со своим паттерном поведения, что требует от игрока некоторой доли тактики. Графика в стиле ретро-пиксель-арт создает приятную ностальгическую атмосферу, а музыкальное сопровождение ненавязчиво и гармонично дополняет игровой процесс. Несмотря на то, что игра может показаться слегка однообразной в долгосрочной перспективе, её динамичность и возможность быстро начать новую партию делают её отличным выбором для коротких игровых сессий. Идеально подходит, чтобы отвлечься и получить заряд позитива.

"Panda vs Bugs" is a garbage mobile app from China. Amazingly, this one doesn't have a cash shop in it, but it also doesn't really have anything else going on in it either. What do you do in the game? This is a simple arcade reflexes game where you pop a panda thing between bamboo lanes to collect bugs that come up from the bottom of the screen. A reverse bullet hell, if you like, only awful. This is a mobile app... it doesn't matter if this was ported to PC before or after the app store release, or even if this didn't even make it to the app stores. This is built for the absolutely lowest of all gaming platforms and must be judged as such... it's not going to give you a cutting edge PC gaming experience. That alone is enough to disqualify this from any recommendation. We don't spend thousands building gaming rigs so that we can pretend they're iPhones and play iPhone games and mobile apps. The graphics are lacklustre because this was designed for mobile phones, not gaming PCs. Whenever a product is designed to run tolerably on 5 year old iPhones, it's obviously not going to come close to the minimum quality standards that PC gaming enthusiasts except on their cutting edge gaming rigs. One more, mobile devs have made gaming worse for everyone. PC gamers don't spend thousands on their gaming rigs so they can pretend they're iPhones. That alone is enough to disqualify this for recommendation. This wasn't designed for typical widescreen monitors, it's locked to a ridiculous 9:16 mobile phone aspect ratio. It won't look right on modern PCs as a result of this bizarre decision to publish a PC game that doesn't conform to the standard display form factors, and it's one of the laziest mobile ports I've seen here on Steam in days. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. This is "free" enough (not every "free" game in the "free" section is truly free, there's usually some hidden price tag), at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too. The poor quality of this game is also reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the game all-time peak user count was only ONE person. That's right, only one person ever used this at a time. When I tried this for the purposes of reviewing it, I equalled the peak user count for the product. OUCH. The only user activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 130 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality product is to be expected. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Nope. This isn't worth downloading. I didn't pay money, but I still feel ripped off.