Metal Noise

I really like what they did here, I hope it gets a bit more polish though. Some meters and values aren't correctly showing, the music and sounds can use a bit more umph, and it also feels pretty grindy. Other than that it's a nice time waster.

with out being able to change basic settings (like resolution and input) im not going bother wasting my time on this game.

Metal Noise is a broken 2D retro side scrolling mobile-app tier shoot 'em up/bullet hell game. For me, the game simply didn't work... while it launched, the game itself didn't start, just displaying an endless side scrolling level. I was unable to spawn my ship and no enemy ships appeared, making this a really lame screen saver, at most. It's valueless. Even if it did work, it's too shallow and badly made to be of interest to gamers. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. The game features simple, cartoony 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect to see in low effort mobile apps. 3D graphics programming does require a degree of skill and competence and unfortunately not all developers have the budget or talent to deliver this, despit…

Very much mobile game, and not in a good way. Weird mouse controls with swiping and whatever. No real options, nothing about display or resolution. Game starts in a small window... The gameplay is decent, the core loop of getting as far as you can, then upgrading is fine for a time waster, but it takes forever to get anything and every time you restart you just go through these very boring early stages where absolutely nothing happens. The pacing is what truly killed it for me.

Too common