Cyber Mission

8bit soundtrack <3

*♪ Careful, you might get a nostalgia attack ♪ + pixelated retro graphics in a modern style + unique levels + epic battles + multiple weapons but! BOSSes are sometimes very difficult. some of the levels turned out to be HARDcore!!1

Looking good. Best bossfight!

This game is similar to my childhood's game Contra: Hard Corps, but only 1,000,000 times better.

The coolest thing here is the bossfightes

Nah, this ain't it. It's always so easy to get excited about a new retro or indie shmup, but look beyond Cyber Mission's (admittedly awesome) music and graphics and you'll realise they merely conceal a sloppily-designed game that's brutally hard for all the wrong reasons. Attacks and enemies fly in from off-screen, often timed in such a way that there is no reasonable window to react. Many of these occur in tight corners, where there is no room to move and your gigantic hitbox has no choice but to eat every bullet in your wake. Some obstacle gauntlets require divine intervention, often encouraging you to zoom to the far edge of the screen in order to avoid certain death, only for enemies to come flying on from that same direction. There are no instances where you have to avoid carefully considered bullet patterns, or have room for strategy; just pray that your mindless spraying takes out the avalanche of enemies before the next gauntlet suffocates you. Oh, and there's a weird glitch where sometimes your player takes ages to spawn at the beginning of a stage, often long enough that the introductory powerups have drifted off-screen. So yeah, that's nice. Avoid.