Toy Tanks

This game is surprisingly fun - clearly inspired by a certain Wii game from the past however unlike it's more recent indie rival "Wee Tanks" - I have played both and have to say this game wins the contest for it's new rush-attack and physics-feature (smashing against enemies sends them flying and vice versa). Boss battles are quite challenging and well-designed even on Normal Difficulty, the Physics-Engine includes hazards and interactions in the environment, the final-boss tank feels like an old Zelda battle that requires hopping over hazards. The new mobility is a welcome addition and allows for real-time dodges when projectiles get too close.

This game suffers from "good game concept, bad level design." The levels are either brutally difficult, requiring many attempts to beat, or are beaten in less than 10 seconds (there is no in between). A lot of the levels also suffer from being luck based. In particular, 3-10 is very annoying to play as you can play it perfectly up until the boss is on low health, then a bunch of enemies are randomly spawned. In most of my attempts they spawn directly on me causing me to be shot multiple times and basically die instantly. I have own gotten to the end on normal difficulty a single time on 3-star pace, and I was killed by a stray bullet right after the final enemy died (meaning my completion didn't count). Another time I was hit and just lost health, knocking me down to a 2-star completion. Why is there is a brief window where is can happen? The game suffers from many other issues. I belief A-18 was the level that introduced a tank that you can kill with bullets. Was this made clear? No, of course not. I spent like 5 minutes pounding bullets into the enemy wondering why it wouldn't die. The thought of it being unkillable was beyond me as bullets hitting it increased the star bar li…

a must have for anyone that grew up with the original

Good but a ton of the time you died because of nothing or took one too many hits (ex: I got stunned so I got dealt one damage then a ton of missiles got thrown at me, ex 2: a homing missile was going for me then just turned 80 degrees to run into a wall and I shoot myself) Also it suck that when playing on the same pc, you can't have one player use controller and the other use a keyboard.

Great game for the price. Had a lot of fun on a family vacation playing through it.

This game is so fun! Like just figuring out how to get through the challenges have really been a blast... literally. Glad I took a chance on this game.