Blast Off Far Away

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A decent high score game. I will keep it as a time killer and play it here and there. A much better fit for mobile market for sure but still I had fun.

I began playing so as to attempt learning intuitively, and I might add that this is a strong yet overlooked compromise in setting difficulty, and consequentially not cramping such a small game by tutorializing the game before I play it. My experience of about a dozen blind attempts was so thoroughly engaging that I nearly forgot to open the "How To" section; admittedly I was also distracted by the charming access to the other menu windows via traveling in-game. After playing blind, I'm not so sure about the "How To's" insistence on using the boxes of debris for grappling; using the gun for movement and the grapple for emergencies was my emergent strategy, and I thought that the boxes were static obstacles that I was meant to destroy or avoid. The game has primary and secondary bases of mechs: the mazer and spotter respectively. The perpendicular texturing of these two mechanical processes is the well-carved path to greatness for many classic Nerve games. In a constantly expanding arena I would slightly prefer quantity over quality, since anything with a unique modifier is ideally just defeated from a distance before I figure out what it does. On the other hand, situations where my…

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great time killer