Mardori

Lucky me gets the dubious honour of being the first to review Mardori. Mardori is yet another of literally hundreds of amateur 2D retro arcade bullet hell/shoot 'em ups infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This one is 3D rendered instead of the usual 2D retro pixel shovelware, but that doesn't mean this is even close to being a good game. I will say, however, importantly, that while this is a terrible game, it does at least appear to be genuinely made, not an asset flip as far as I can tell, no evidence of stock asset use or any other kinds of plagiarism or asset flipping. This is an old and dead genre, and it doesn't serve the interests of gamers for there to be yet another "me too" entry that looks like it was built from a template/demo engine and rushed onto Steam. There's a bit of a progression system associated with this shooter, but I think the game was dead out of the gate when the developer decided that what Galaga really needed to break the 21st century and put Counter-Strike 2 in its place was limited ammo... that's right, you can only shoot a certain number of times before you stop and wait while your ship reloads. Spaces…