Eternal Circus: Dancing with Missiles

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A surprisingly entertaining, if short bullet hell built around slowing down time and weaving through patterns to approach the boss. The core concept is surprisingly well executed, though the more vehicle-esque controls rather than immediate feedback can make it feel a little wonky depending on your personal experience with bullet hells. The graphics are nothing to write home about, but the background music is pretty good. Worth a try, given it's free. A slightly longer version with more bosses or options in terms of customizing one's playstyle could easily be sold for a decent price.

This is an extremely smooth, polished, and fun missile dodge-em-up with some great art and an excellent soundtrack. Check it out!

"Eternal Circus: Dancing with Missiles" is a low poly 3D minimalist bullet hell/shmup trying to rip off the Macross franchise while also trying not to infringe copyrights much. The idea is that you need to avoid missile swarms, and your low poly blob is a Valkyrie variable geometry transforming mecha (but don't sue!). What do you do in the game? Well, it's a boring classical bullet hell, really. Omnidirectional dodging on a 2D plane... over incredibly samey, lacklustre levels with repetitive, bland gameplay. Basically once you've played this for 5 minutes you've seen everything. However, playing for 5 minutes is a challenge, not just because of the poor controls, it's also buggy and unreliable. Could have used a lot more testing before this was ready for the old Steam Direct $100. In terms of visuals, this features fairly low quality low poly 3D graphics which will deter a lot of gamers, understandably. Gaming is a visual medium, and while some developers struggle with creating high quality visuals, failing to do so is a disservice to gamers. It's very difficult to recommend bad looking games. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. Most "free" games on Steam aren't rea…

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