Reflecting Reflections

"Nine After 9" is a 2D retro wave survival shooter written in Java (don't laugh, it's true). There's some interactive elements such as the ability to gather sticks, but seriously, nobody is going to play this long enough to get that far. There's also some "mirror" gimmick where you can flip the level around. I've written over 5,700 video game reviews on Steam at the time of this review, and I've seen some things. Valve says that when we write reviews, we should say what we like about a game and what we don't like about a game, and sometimes it's challenging to find something nice to say. I'll go so far as to say this probably isn't the worst game on Steam. But it's definitely close. The implementation here is comically bad. As you can see from the screenshots there's some South Park-esque terrible paper cutout art (at least I hope that's the look they were going for, anything else and they failed). You amble around moving left, right, up or down (but not diagonally because there's only so much Java can handle!). You will get a good chuckle if you shoot your gun and observe the bullet comes out about 20 pixels below where the gun barrel is. It's nice that the developers have made this free, but it's really, really, really bad.

thought i would give it a try cause its only 91mb missing a decent amount of animations that just load as black boxes, unplayable