Good Robot

Roguelike shoot 'em up or twin-stick shooter where you can shoot in every direction. It has a simple but appealing, distinctive visual style for the enemies reminding of Tron. Despite the tunnels being randomized, the levels themselves pretty much look the same all the time except for different colors. A neat gimmick is that you only see enemies when your light beam is in their direction and that walls block the light in a realistic way. Slightly floaty gamepad controls, but I realized that was because the robot doesn't stop on a dime. It takes a little longer the faster you are moving. No d-pad. I had trouble hitting my targets with aiming, but I got better at it. Cool unconventional chiptune music. No story except a few blurbs in vending machines which was a bit disappointing. I liked the choices of upgrades and weapons at vending machines, but I didn't like how everything became too expensive too quickly when money drops seemed to stay mostly the same.

So it is a bad game? Kinda. Do I recommend it? No It has a solid base to be an interesting game but the devs didn't push it past the base, the game becomes repetitive really quick without a clear objective other than just go from start to finish and kill anything in your way, is not difficult enough for a rougelike game, I managed to beat the whole game in one sitting, the bullet hell combined with badly placed enemies will make you get hit many many times without you realizing, that alone makes me not want to 100% this game considering it has hitless achievements. This could have been a really great experience if they added a better variety on enemies, changing how they look is not enough, harder bosses, better enemy placement, properly made maps... If you like bullet hells / shoot em ups and something to play in 2 hours, grab it on discount.

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Looks pretty to start with, nice controls, but gets samey very quickly. No map, you're not sure where the next area is so there's lots of flying around looking for the right tunnel to go down. Basically things have moved on a lot in the last ten years, indie game-wise. It's a bit of a shame as I like the aesthetics but there's not much to it. Surprised how may 'very positive' reviews there are as it's just 'OK' for a twin-stick shooter. I can't recommend it when there are so many other decent shooters out there, so this is for those who have exhausted all the excellent ones.

Lots of fun and really enjoy that every level is procedurally generated so every game feels like a new game. If I had one criticisim it would the be the lack to tooltips / help to tell you what primary or secondary does what and if any is better than another. For example if I use a gun that shoots one projectile and it does 100 damage does the gun that shoots 4 spread out do 25 each or are they also 100 each? I have no idea. All in all you do figure most of it out through trial, error and I would give it a solid 4/5 stars.

THE BEST GAME THAT COMBINES COOL ACTION, DODGING, TACTICS, AND STRATEGY!!!!! BUY THIS GAME!!!