Space Runaway

Originally an arcade mini-game within Wanted: Dead (a character action game by one of the developers behind Ninja Gaiden) and developed by the developers behind Horgihugh (a slightly unambitious yet great horizontal shmup), Space Runway is a great callback to late 80s/early 90s Arcade shmups of old with inspirations ranging from things such as Blazeon (visually), Konami's Force Gear and other mecha shmups from the era. For free, you can't complain at the game, it punches way above its supposed weight as an extra in a AAA action game. The music is average, seems to call back to 16 bit era days with very average composition. As far as gameplay you have access to bombs, 3 weapons (Normal, Homing and Laser), 4 powerups ("P" for power, "S" for speed, "B" for bombs and an Option you can manually redirect) and 7 stages with 7 distinct bosses. I would recommend picking up the speed powerup as a priority ("S") so you don't feel as sluggish and can actually dodge, the hitbox is very small so it's more lenient that it initially appears to be. The "freezing enemies to then blow them up in chain as a bomb" concept is very interesting from both a scoring and gameplay perspective. It takes a while to click with it but once you do you'll figure out the game is meant to be played in a more tactical way than most shmups that come out nowadays. You'll begin to think tactically as to -where- you want to kill enemies to use them as bombs and create chain explosions with upcoming enemy spawns, -when- to stop holding the shot button to maximize the effect of enemies blowing up, -what- weapon to use, upgrade to pick and direction to have your options facing at. The whole level design is made around the enemy explosion concept and it is quite engaging once you click with it and figure it out. Overall a 7/10, not bad at all, not spectacular either. It will appeal to fans of late 80s/early 90s shmups or arcade shmup fans looking for some shmup time-waster for free (which fortunately steam has a plethora to pick from). This is a game that will appeal the most to fans of late 80s shmups where more tactical decisions would predominate over skill. I feel the game takes a lot from older Konami games from the era but is not running short of inspirations with a unique style of its own. It took me a while to click with it and understand the gameplay loop and level design, it can seem clunky or even daunting at first but it becomes addicting once you understand how it's meant to be played.

To be honest, considering is a game inside another game, i only hate enemies not exploding instantly, the rest is a classic arcade shmup.

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Um grupo de WhatsApp focado em shmups que participo que me avisou sobre Space Runaway, eu adicionei ele na biblioteca e os gráficos na página do jogo me chamaram a atenção, pixel art é bom demais, instalei o jogo sem grandes expectativas e o resultado foi muito positivo. Graficamente, conforme dito anteriormente, é um pixel art extremamente bem feito, a começar pelo mecha que você controla, em minha opinião eu achei que é uma junção de robôs dos animes Macross e Patlabor, um bonecão gigante com uma metralhadora poderosa. Muitos elementos no jogo possuem movimentação própria e o que dizer dos chefes de fase? Um mais legal que o outro. Quem já é iniciado no gênero vai notar alguma referência aqui e acolá. Há um estágio em que o rolamento de fase é na diagonal inferior direita que lembra um estágio de Hyper Duel, aliás, eu acho que grande parte de Space Runaway foi inspirado em clássicos da Technosoft. O que eu poderia sugerir para melhorar graficamente o jogo é mostrar o chefe de fase destruído ao final do combate e não simplesmente ele sumir na explosão, acho que daria um efeito muito legal. A trilha sonora eu gostei bastante, as minhas músicas preferidas, no momento em que escrevo esta resenha, são as da quarta e quinta fase. Eu acho que as músicas são do gênero synth-pop, se eu estiver equivocado, por favor, corrija-me. Os efeitos sonoros são bons e competentes. Há um som aterrador ao final do jogo que meu deu um baita susto. A jogabilidade é bem feita, porém notei alguns pequenos problemas. Em Space Runaway há três tipos de armas, a laser é a arma mais poderosa, embora a sua cadência seja a pior de todas, ela é tão forte que no segundo chefe ele mal aparece e já aparece destruído. Neste caso poderia o inimigo ter um período de invencibilidade até aparecer totalmente no estágio para assim começar a batalha. Na primeira forma do último chefe, o seu escudo protetor tem a caixa de impacto estranha, pois em algumas partes, ela fica acima e abaixo do respectivo canhão. Entretanto na última proteção não sei bem onde é a caixa de impacto, ali parece ser bem reduzido e é preciso que você se arrisque na frente do canhão para causar danos à proteção. Apesar do mecha de Space Runaway ser bem grande, a sua caixa de impacto é relativamente pequena, fica no peito do robô. Durante a partida o jogador pode coletar, além dos itens de troca de arma e vida extra, os seguintes itens: • P fornece aumento no poder de fogo, vai até o nível cinco; • S aumenta a velocidade, não me arrisquei a pegar mais que três; • Ajudante, o mecha pode ter dois consigo, a direção de ataque deles pode ser modificada, além deles servirem de escudo para pequenos tiros; • B é bomba extra, você pode ter até nove em estoque, não sei por que há uma casa decimal no contador. Quando o limite de atualizações chega ao máximo, cada item extra passa a valer mil pontos. Toda vez que um inimigo é derrotado, com exceção dos chefes de fase, ele permanece na tela piscando em vermelho durante algum tempo enquanto você segurar o botão de tiro, ao você liberar o botão, ele explode, essa explosão causa danos em outros inimigos, não notei se esse artifício aumenta a quantidade de pontos. A bomba te dá invencibilidade temporária (i-frame), o que ajuda em algumas passagens. A maior dificuldade em Space Runaway acontece ao morrer, pois a recuperação é bem complicada em algumas passagens, principalmente contra chefes de fase. O chefe da quinta fase é um sofrimento, por conta da caixa de impacto dele ser bem escondida, foram várias tentativas até eu perceber o local exato onde atingi-lo. Aliás, um modo de treino seria um adicional bem interessante ao jogo. Ao terminar o game, o modo hard é liberado, eu joguei um crédito nessa dificuldade e é bem difícil mesmo, inimigos que não atiravam passam a te atacar. Achei Space Runaway bem legal, fui com a expectativa bem baixa e fui surpreendido positivamente, normalmente essa estratégia sempre funciona. Space Runaway é um jogo de graça disponível no Steam que eu faria questão de dar vinte cruzeiros facilmente, posso definir ele como um bom jogo de Mega Drive ou Super Nintendo que jamais foi lançado.

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(2023년 2월 14일 발매예정인 Wanted: Dead 게임 속의 미니게임이 무료로 나온 겁니다.) 그래픽은 괜찮으나 홍보용 무료게임다운 품질의 작품이니 큰 기대는 하지 마세요. 따로 뭐 손대지 않은 기본상태에서 조작-움직임이 굼뜨고 파워업에 지나치게 의존한다는 느낌으로 특히 유도광선 1단계는 초반 연이어 나오는 적 한마리도 제대로 못 쓰러뜨리는 수준의 화력. UHD 환경에서 기본 창 크기가 작은데 편히 바꿀 수가 없습니다. Alt+Enter 눌러도 전체화면화 안 되고 메인메뉴에 해상도 조정 옵션 안 보이더군요. 무료라고 해도 충분한 테스트를 거치지 않고 낸 것 같아서 시간 여유 많지 않으신 분들을 고려해 비추천으로 바꿉니다.

It's a free game with good graphics, good music and the play feel is overall fine. Recommended if you like old style arcade games that have checkpoint re-spawns and creating recovery routes. The gripe I have with this game is that the game is very unbalanced in terms of boss patterns and player's shot abilities. You choose your weapon by collecting a rotating color item just like Tatsujin. Blue weapon (laser) is outright broken in terms of damage, dealing 3~4 times of damage than any other types. Red homing laser is complete utter trash, it cannot defeat any enemies at all at Level 1. Yellow is fine, but it lacks damage just like Red. There is absolutely no reason to select anything but blue. Since the blue laser does humongous damage, most of the bosses can be beaten in less than 2 seconds if you spam 2 bombs and keep shooting the core with the blue laser. This tactic does not work on Stage 5 boss, since it's just a cluster fxxx of patterns, where the enemy spawns BEHIND the boss sprites with random exploding bullets coming from the bottom side of your ship. Good luck dealing with that. I have given up on Stage 5 boss for the moment. Overall, the game is not that bad, it takes some certain amount of skill sets to enjoy this game. Feel like this one wasn't for me, but I'm sure other shmup fans would like to play it.