Jetpack Kiwi

very neat little side scroller game! would recommend

This game is adorable and pretty funny. The explosion sounds for not only the enemies but also yourself make me laugh everytime! This game features an arcade mode, which pits you against the stages with a fixed amount of lives and a story mode where you can buy extra lives and skins in a shop and select whichever stage you want to tackle next. I found the game to be generally skewed on the easy side... that is until I made it to the final level, The Factory, where mobs explode in all cardinal directions, littering the screen with all of the death. It's manageable if you are fully powered up and stick toward the front top of the screen so your diagonal shots kill most things before they even become a threat, but if you lose a certain amount of lives and revert back to level 1 in all missile types, it's a spooky game of dodging everything and the kitchen sink. An odd thing that would happen more often than not was the dev window would pop up everytime I took a screen shot. It got to the point that I just placed my mouse around where the screen would pop up and just click it off each time. The music was fitting for each of the stages (I hope the devs uploaded the soundtrack somewhe…