Godspell Defender

Godspell Defender is more than just a simple shooter, in this game you're a wizard fighting a horde of monsters. You do this by running backwards very quickly. But wait, there's more. The game works a bit like an odd hybrid of an almost-brickbreaker Breakout game and a more traditional shooter. The gimmick is that you need to carefully, very carefully time and place your shots against the "bricks" moving up and down the screen between you and all the angry monster dudes. It's certainly a unique gimmick, but just because it's unique doesn't mean it's good. But this game is mostly let down by a very weak technical implementation. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals. The game features simple, fairly basic 2D visuals, and while some effort went into them, and they don't look bad exac…

The later levels are designed where you use your bombs to dispatch low health fast enemies, but you accumulate bombs over the course of the game and your bombs carry over to the next level. This means that once you get to those later levels, you don't have enough bombs to dispatch the enemies. It's a baffling design choice that I think breaks game balance and makes later levels unplayable. You also don't have much control over the spells you use. The scrolling background and everything moving also feels disorienting sometimes. It all just feels like a mess.

Weird game. You only use mouse, for movement, and for charging your spell. Your goal is to kill all running enemies in order to make them unable to run through/escape. Every level game boss, which is here basicaly more stronger (and physicaly larger) enemy. I can't really tell, if models aren't just generic assets. Music also sounds to be generic and not interesting. Gameplay style is something you don't see often nowdays, that's for sure. But poor implementation can't save game from being very boring and repetitive. I don't recommend it.

BE CAREFUL ABOUT SOFTLOCKING YOURSELF You can't replay levels in this game, so if you keep losing on a level and completely run out of bombs you may not be able to progress and will have to start from the beginning. The amount of bombs you get gets carried over from each level, so I'd suggest being really stingy with the bombs. You can't unfortunately farm the bombs, because if you die you get the bomb amount that you had before starting that level. And later levels start off so rough that without some bombs you can get stuck. Other than that, the game is cool. I like all games from this dev, they make pretty novel stuff, so I'd recommend this, for a price this low. And definitely check out One Finger Death Punch 2, if you're not familiar, you won't regret it!

It's fun ish game... but why the random charge ups?

Really simple side scroller game where you shoot charged balls into hordes of enemies. You always have to try to shoot those balls through 2 or (for the best results) 3 lines of spells for maximum impact. Sometimes it's better to pew pew pew without charging too much, otherwise enemies will swarm you in seconds. You always have bombs at your disposal if quick enemies are breaching your defenses, but bombs don't generate quick enough, so you have to pick the optimal time to use them. Once you get better at combining spells - you'll be able to preserve much more bombs for later, more difficult levels. Most later levels are very RNG based. Sometimes you just don't get the correct spells to shoot through and your level is lost pretty quickly. But 2-4 tries and you'll break through. This game lacks polishing and it has no info on spells and how their multipliers/combinations actually work. So everything is achieved trough trial and error until you learn what combos are the most effective. Too bad that achievements can get bugged and you'll not be able to get all of them even after fully cleaering the whole game. That's why I can't recommend this game. Just too unfinished.