Lex Talionis A

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"Lex Talionis A" is a student project from Neumont College. One of the first things students should be taught in game development is that 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid 1990's with dedicated 3D cards like the Voodoo3 and the ATI Rage. But the students were deliberately mistaught that it's okay to release obsolete 2D games in the 3D era of gaming... certainly any professional developer seeing a prospective new hire who doesn't even know about 3D gaming probably isn't going to give them a job. The students were only taught how to make 2D games (in 2025), thus rendering their education valueless. Their homework assignment was to make a godawfully bad 2D side scrolling co-op platformer/shooter that nobody played (because it's garbage). It might make the students feel good about themselves for their school to publish this on Steam Direct (even if no gamers actually wanted it), but this has no benefit for us PC gamers. We have to question the value of educational businesses flooding the store with low quality 2D video game homework assignments while gamers wade through this stuff to find professionally made PC games. You know, with 3D graphics. Because it's the 21st centu…

Lex Talionis A is a really fun little cooperative shooter that surprised me with how much personality it manages to fit into such a compact experience. I take control of one of several very strange aliens fighting their way through astronauts, drones and bosses, and the whole thing has a colorful cartoon style that makes the violence feel more playful than serious. I especially liked that the game is clearly designed around working together instead of simply making me fight through everything alone. The combat is built around fast run and gun action, with each alien having its own unusual abilities. I enjoyed switching between the different characters because they give me different ways to approach the same situation. One character might rely on a ridiculous weapon while another can summon something much more unexpected, and that variety makes choosing who I play feel meaningful. The platforming and shooting also work nicely together, so I am constantly moving while trying to deal with enemies. The cooperative side is easily my favorite part. Playing locally with other people makes the game much more chaotic, especially when there are lots of enemies and attacks happening at once…

Fun platformer. Short but with good replay value from character variety and branching paths. Good challenge overall with fun boss fights. The two monkeys below were annoying though. [list] [*]There are some random fps drops on level 2. Every 10-15 sec or so. Tried Low settings, no difference. [*]When paused, Esc make the game quit instead of resume. It was somewhat frustrating losing progress to that. Maybe add 'are you sure?' check for safety. [*]Would be nice to be able to use M2 for secondary attack since you can shoot with M1. [/list]

Short fun game with some nice character and walk through variety. The crab tanks were fun. Nice SFX. Some FPS drops later in the game. The bosses were fun too.