FullBlast

Published on Steam way back in 2016 FullBlast is a very accessible bullet hell "lite" vertical shooter. Set the game on Hard difficulty and you'll find a more interesting experience than playing on lower difficulties. Normal difficulty is just too mundane and is more geared toward casuals. Visually FullBlast is visually arresting incorporating colorful artifacts and detailed though repetitive backgrounds. On Easy and Normal difficulties FullBlast is easily the most forgivable shooter that I've encountered allowing the user to be hit many times by incoming projectiles though colliding with bosses seems to be instant death. Very accessible for casuals with easily learned bullet patterns that can be mastered after a run or two. Most of the 12 stages are of significant length. Some may call this filler but there's just more game here so not a negative. FullBlast features local coop and though I've stayed solo I can see that playing coop on Hard can be entertaining playing with a friend. The employed theme has a "touch" and a "hint" of Cave's masterpiece Mushihimesama and combined with the good visuals and accessible game-play FullBlast can be an enjoyable lite bullet hell f…

Incredibly generic vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up to the point of being boring. You have 12 randomly-generated levels separated in 3 settings or environments (city, forest, snow). Each level lasts about five minutes and overstays its welcome. Serious lack of variety in environments (that do look good) and enemies. Even the big bosses repeat. Only two weapons that are basically shooting straight or in a cone. Mediocre and repetitive guitar rock music always seeming to be the same tempo. It does control well enough. Finished at easy.

[h1] Another shoot'em up that is a bit boring to play. Levels are long and slow paced. Visuals not bad and enemies have some variety but still... After completing stage you immediately start next one without any loading or transition so it's hard to say which level you're currently in. When you die start level over. Power ups are scarce so make sure not to get hit. Playable but mediocre at best. [/h1]

Monotonous,overpriced and mundane is how I would describe this game. Hear the rock soundtrack on the demo video? Imagine that 10 second clip not changing the whole way through the game as well as the first 10 seconds of gameplay just being exactly that even after stage 2. Uninspired enemy type, placement, powerups, music etc. The graphics are clean but the hit detection is off. That bullet hit me from over there? If this was a $1.50 game and it often went on sale for 75cents sure, why not but $7.50? Nope Price should reflect the quality of the game so not recommended.

Sound: 3 Graphics: 7 Story: 2 Gameplay: 5 Commands: 4 Fun: 4 Time to load / lag: 9 Bugs / Problems: 8 Final score: 4

Just to echo the other reviews, the 12 levels are generally too long and uninspired, there's not many surprises in this and it's very generic. However it must have some charm as I stuck with it for a couple of play sessions until I completed it and it did play pretty well. As a purchase on sale, I can't begrudge what I paid for it but there are so many more polished inspired vertical shooters on steam worthy of your time. This game is towards the back of the queue for your vertical shoot em up attention, although it is completed in an hour an a half and if picked up cheap and you're curious, there's no big risk. As I mentioned it's not without it's charm and plays fine.