Robo's World: The Zarnok Fortress

I just cannot recommend this game. 1) You can only shoot horizontally while your enemies can shoot at any angle they want. 2) The support robots are just annoying and not fun to fight. Depending on the environment you can get in a battle of attrition that you will lose, especially if there are two that revive each other with the drones blocking your shots. Yes I know one of the sabotages disable drones but that doesn't excuse it. 3) Enemies can have shields like you do that are on top of their normal health and only take one shield damage at a time. You can dash punch to destroy it all but you take contact damage so punching was practically suicide. Oh, and those shield/health drops? Enemies can take them. 4) Some of the level design just appears to force you to take damage. In fact one of the keys for the digital environment appears to force you to take a death since it is behind tiles that turn deadly after you move off of them so unless they turn back to normal after time you have to take a death. 5) Speaking of the digital environment it appeared to be pointless. Yes you can lower the AI level but you would have to grind to fight the increase even on normal difficulty. I tried it for 'fast travel' once to go back to the first one you unlock only to find it behind another key and didn't want to deal with trying to find it. 6) There are gates that lock when you are detected and unlock when the enemy is destroyed, except you can easily get locked out on the other side that the enemy is on forcing you to destroy the gate or try to punch it through the gate. As for the positives, the music is good although seemed to be inspired heavily by Mega Man, the graphics aren't bad, and the idea of a sabotaging for different benefits is good. However the game was more frustrating than fun and many times I felt that a death was due to me being put in a position where if I am able to get through it is usually through cheap tactics.

(disclaimer, I haven't finished the game yet - if the endind for some reason is bad, I wouldn't know, but seeing how polished the game has been so far, I can almost assure you; it is not) This. This is what I define as a freaking nice game with much to offer. Polished and cohesive graphics, nice illustrations, great challenges, good music, easy to learn controls but hard to master, and in general good ol' fun. If you like action platformers, this is the game for you.

Great gameplay, challenging but rewarding. Love the retro platform style, and the sound to accompany it is fantastic. The adventure itself is open-ended, leading to all sorts of paths through the world as you progress towards the ship's core. I would definitely recommend picking this game up and seeing for yourself. Tons of fun!

I enjoy these types of retro platformer games. As you progress more into the ship, that is when the game gets even more better!

Point score for different aspects of the game (0 to 10) Graphics 8 (Fuzzy Graphics was a bug and has been fixed) Music 8 Cinematics 6 Story 7 Content 7 Controls 8 (game is meant to be played with a controller) Gameplay 7 Final Score 7.3 Liked: Nice looking game with enjoyable music and interesting puzzles Disliked: Game view could zoomed out a bit, but nothing major Verdict: Nice game and i recommend giving it a try!

Its a really good game for being out for such a short time. i got to meet the dev and grapichs desinger witch was really cool at EGLX, really devoted to what there doing and how to do it, if i could again say. it would be 100% beater with co-op, its a nice small game 12/10 keep doing what youre doing!

The game runs as smooth as baby bottoms

A great challenge! If you're a fan of action platformers, this is right up your alley. Great visuals and it's a retro inspired game that hasn't gone with pixel art. Did I mention this game can be difficult :D!