So let's get this out of the way, I had originally purchased this game from a Bundle (Gogobundle) and when the site went belly up and didn't pay the Devs, some of them started revoking keys. This Dev was one of them. Should they have done that? No! We basically had our money scammed from us, and really screws over the customers. The Devs should have cut their losses and be glad people were playing their games. Some people seem to take it too far like threatening the Dev, like come on you spent like maybe $0.25 on this game. Had this game been like a $50 I can understand being upset more, but people like to hate mob way to easily.
Some have offered to give new keys back if you emailed them, but most didn't. This Dev stated that if you emailed him you would get a key back. Well that didn't happen exactly like that. The Dev ended up making the game Free... BUT you may have noticed that there is a DLC. Since I had given my email, the Dev reached out to me and gave me a key for the DLC. Now with that, let's move on!
There is 2 versions of the game, the original, and the "remaster" version. Both can be selected from the main menu. The classic version is a side scrolling runner, with the aim of making it to the end, in one go! You will always be moving, with the choice to slow down or speed up. I've gave it a few tries and could only make it just past half way. It's pretty simple and not too hard, just a matter of learning where the enemies are. Some of the achievements will be hard, like not getting hit and beating it in 4 min. It's interesting, but nothing ground breaking.
Now, for the remastered version... I really did not like! It follows the same idea as the classic, but gives you free movement and has some story elements. You escape your prison and have to escape your creators. Simple story. Now this time there is different weapon pick ups, like a spread shot, lazer, explosive, and a spinning shot (the most useless weapon.) The other addition is now you have 3 lives, which I didn't really lose until I got to the "Kill Room" which has an instant death trap. Once you use up all 3 lives it's game over and will have to start over. For the most part it's pretty easy, but I do have some major complaints.
The hit boxes seem to be wonky. Some times I can hit an enemy no problems, other times my shots go right through, or my explosion doesn't deal any damage. But nothing compares to the one enemy type, the flying drone thing. These things you have to kill at a distance, as if you active them, they fly towards you in a blink of an eye and explode, dealing quite a bit of damage. You can't dodge this either!! There is even bosses this time around, and again are pretty easy, especially when you go into them with a weapon power. Spam shoot and you win. Also, some of this music sounds really familiar, but I can't quite say where I've heard it from.
Now the last part of the game has a flying shmup style mini-game, and it's honestly the worst. Your ship moves painfully slow, so good luck avoiding stuff. Your hitbox is all over the place, so expect to get hit lots and miss powerups! You get the same power ups as normal, but the problem is the one is utter useless! I'm talking about the swirly one (F) as this weapon shot will faze through asteroids, something you need to be able to blow up to try and avoid taking damage! The goal of this mini game is to destroy 150 enemy ships, yes just ships! This will take forever, as it will spawn more asteroids than ships. I played for 10 min, and only killed 30 ships! I just gave up as it just got boring super fast.
Now what does the DLC add? Nothing really special. A "Training Room" that lets you jump to the boss fights to fight then back to the select room. The other is jumping to the shmup mini game. It's honestly not worth it.
In the end, I can't say I enjoyed it, or hated it. Since Valve doesn't give us an in-between option, and with all the other sh*t surrounding the game, I'll have to give it a Not Recommend. To the Dev, keep working hard at it!
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