Fusion Paradox 🔫

THE SHORT REVIEW: 5 out of 10. The gaming equivalent of a McDonald's cheeseburger: there's worse things you could "eat", such as dog poo between a couple of slices of mouldy bread, but ultimately you get a bland approximation of juicy meat flavour and the only thing that really stands out is the slice of pickle. Which isn't what you paid a couple of quid for.... What you have here is a rogue-like run-and-gun shooter, where the elements of randomisation add nothing overall due to a lack of any depth or meaningful strategies. So the constant repetition of restarting after death becomes a chore, whilst the action is passable but not strong or varied enough to maintain interest in it. It's not a bad game, and actually has a fairly decent feel to it and design. However: you'll have seen everything it has to offer in half an hour of playing it, and by the two hour refund mark I was getting pretty bored with how little sense of progression it gives. Not awful by any means, and yet....really hard to recommend it nonetheless. THE LONG REVIEW: Uh, well, not much more to add here, other than fleshing out any mild praise for it, and then banging on about those complaints to a tedious degree…

Imagine Enter the Gungeon and Ikaruga blended up, it makes for some interesting gameplay, that's for sure~ My feedback so far: - the starter pistol needs a buff, since you may go a long while without a better weapon even on a new fresh run, even just a range buff would be great - it would be great to be able to manage your gun inventory, drag and drop style, it gets messy switching guns to the one you want once you have too many - There's weapons that only work with a specific type of energy, it would be great to split the gun inventory per element so you don't hold an incompatible gun when you switch elements, with normal guns being shared between both inventories

Fun action roguelike with unique art and interesting gameplay. It starts a bit slow, but gets a lot better once you grab a few perks. The main gameplay is typical for the genre. You advance through randomly created floors, defeat enemies, gather coins to spend on better goods in shops, and open boxes with perks. Everything is lost upon death, with the exception of special keys and stat improvements. The unique mechanic is the blue and yellow energy. Numerous things are connected to each energy, and you can change at will. Examples include opponents that can only be wounded with the appropriate energy and chests that open only with the matching color. Additionally, some weapons and perks are energy-specific; they simply don’t work if you have the opposite energy. Fortunately, most enemies are in neutral energy, so you won't have to continually switch during combat. Three keys are unique to each floor and are hidden in unique puzzle areas. These challenges disable your ability to switch between energies but give you doors that, after you pass through them, switch between the two colors. The goal is to push boxes and use doors to reach the final room with the key. You keep thes…

Nice game, I enjoyed it. The blue-yellow mode switching adds a nice twist.

Great indy roguelike! What impressed me first was how well this game was optimised, especially for an indie game - literally no loading time on my pc. I like to play fast-paced roguelike games to sort of relax my brain and just have fun. For me, that means a lot of weapons, a lot of skills, and a variety within those - and this game has dozens and dozens of different guns and skills that feel very different to each other (unlike most such games that copy-paste guns and just change something very small about it). Even each of the dozens of optional puzzles are so different from one another - something that even AAA games struggle to achieve... It's not very long, but it is a roguelike, so obviously, you can go again and again. And I like that there is a difficulty setting, so I don't have to feel like it is work - I can just relax playing it.

Fusion Paradox is a roguelike with very little replay-value. The game runs out of energy about an hour in and simple doesn't have the amount of variation or clever combat to make up for it. Everything looks and feels the same, including all the rooms and weapons. Surprising, considering it does have a new mechanic: you alternate between states and colors. The theme is very similar to Going Under, however that game does everything a million times better than this. The color switch is a nice idea, however perhaps it's suited for a slower, more methodical combat style, during the heat of a hectic battle it's just cumbersome and annoying, all it does is protect certain enemies that can only be shot in one of your forms. Sadly, some of your weapons are also restricted to a certain color. It's not engaging just frustrating. The 2.5D style doesn't help with aiming either and the fact that bullets are destroyed shortly after a shot means, you have to get close to every enemy. Would be fine, except the only way the game increases the difficulty is by spawning 10 dudes around you. There are no weakpoints, there as nothing to learn or master besides the 2D aiming. I was bored. Just play …