Hyper-5

In a word: Nah. At a glance, the game looks great, but that falls apart pretty quickly. The graphics often get in the way of the gameplay, with the hitboxes of certain enemies being tricky to discern. On the other hand, the weird hitboxes can equally work in your favor, allowing you to hit enemies and objects that appear to still be in the background. Navigating menus is kind of a hassle whether you're using keyboard or controller. Seems kinda odd to me that you can remove all upgrades for a piece of gear at once, but upgrading is always a tedious process with a long animation. Speaking of gear, this game commits the cardinal sin of making your default weapons, all of them, hideously underpowered. They can get particularly powerful once fully upgraded, but until you get there you're just plonking away at enemies. Lots of ill-executed ideas too - the tech bay weapons are fun but you do NOT get enough ammo for my liking, even after investing in upgrades. Those would've been more fun if the game were balanced so they were just another weapon that you fire. Two final gripes: The final boss is the type that doesn't respect your time. You just keep flying around for several minutes u…

Recommended with the provision that you enjoy old school shmups, this game is a decent entry in the vein of classics like Gradius, R-Type and Darius, with some interesting ideas. While it is lacking some polish in some areas (notably the menus and voice acting, the cutscenes are a bit amateur), it also has a certain low-budget charm. The actual gameplay is good, the levels and waves generally feel well-paced and challenging to master (the last level being the exception, it's a bit of a slog), and the weapons are fun to experiment with and power up. The ship and enemy design is decent, a couple of the five levels have branching paths and changing camera angles that add some welcome twists to the genre, also the fact that defeating some bosses is optional. At the outset of Story Mode, you won't have a very effective arsenal, which you have to upgrade in-between rounds using collected resource points. Due to this, your ship feels pretty duddy at start, unable to clear even the first waves of basic enemies, which does not leave the best initial impression, the intro level seems absurdly hard with your little pew-pew gun. But you will end up replaying the first couple levels for a whil…

Really unique, I love this game.

If you want an aperrealistic shoot 'em up you gotta take it; this is all we ever wanted in the past

Tried out the Demo of this and was at first put off, mostly due to my inexperience with SHUMPs. Then the gameplay was kind of a mixed bag for me, but the amateur indie style type of game won me over (mostly been falling away from AAA games). I didn't want to wait for a sale to get this so, paid for the whole game. It was quite an experience, it was difficult to pass through any level other than 1, but I've strived for the challenges and unlockables, trying out new weapons and gear that may better suit me. Slowly and surely I managed to reach the end of each levels, after many, many attempts. I grew amazed at several of the bosses and environments as I finally hit the last level. Even after beating the game, I tried out the Time Trial Mode and Arcade mode, attempting to unlock more and more of what the game has to offer. And I had an amazing time! I will definitely play more as I wish to complete this game 100%! Now it definitely has flaws, that I would consider a huge turn off for some. For starters, some levels get up and close against the ground or tight spaces, making it very hard to determine what has collision and what doesn't. One may notice upon repeat attempts on the leve…

Good game, horrible UI menus...just terrible but the game play is good. Nice unlock and upgrading system. Two modes, one for more skilled players and one for more casual boomers like me (not really a boomer, gen X actually but whatever). I believe it is a single indie developer, so its nice to support that. If the game was more expensive though, I might down vote it just for the absolutely crap UI experience of it. Game opens with a prompt saying best played with controller...then smashes you in the face with just exceptionally awful UI experience...almost as bad as Wolcen (absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ UI for controller). Updates seems to be dead even though its not a very old game. It is fairly cheap at regular price and I would say worth it. If you can get it at discount, grab it if you are into sidescroller flyer shmups.