Riddled Corpses

[h1] I tried this game a few times and it always appear to be boring. Pick your character and obliterate hordes of zombies while collecting gold and treasures. Zombies move super slow not giving much pace to the gameplay. Touch zombie and you die unless you have a shield. Upgrade your character and try again your luck in beating the game (5 stages in total). Game feels shallow and repetitive with some progression system based on upgrading your character. Visuals are pixelated and kinda chibby looking. Music is a bit 16-bit. Time waster, apparently more fun for coop. [/h1]

Like Sky Force: Anniversary, another game that I reviewed that was a shmup, the problem with this game is that you start out weak and you have to end up upgrading with coins to have enough firepower to deal with enemies. The grind however takes hours unless you use .ini file magic to change your coin count and buy all the shop items (I had to do that because the game had zero Steam Cloud support, so when I deleted the game out of rage of the grind, I had to redo everything technically, and then I got all of the achievements legitimately). Yes, to easily beat the game, you have to use the last overpowered chick character with all of the firepower. Yes, CLEARING THE GAME WITH THE FIRST UNDERPOWERED CHARACTER THAT YOU START WITH IS LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO DO BECAUSE THE BOSSES ARE BULLET SPONGES HERE TOO (I mean, look at the video for the game on the store page; the developer just shows the overpowered chick characters with a lot of firepower and doesn't show the character that you start with or the grind you would have to deal with). Also, the dev was such an ass that he only put the DX version of this game that balances things better on consoles and never upgraded this version. You …

Riddled Corpses is a fairly simple but fun twin-stick shooter with decent pixel art and quality chip tunes. It is not without its issues, though, which are as follows: - It is [i]extremely[/i] grind-heavy. The gold you acquire in-game is cumulative, and used to level up playable characters as well as purchase/upgrade power-ups. Each character level-up costs more than the previous, and each unlocked character will cost more than the previous for those level-ups. The best character for farming gold is the second-last one you will acquire, and doing the Survival Mode again and again and again does get quite repetitive. - You can accumulate gold in Arcade Mode too, but the stages progress very slowly. Also, before each level is a map screen you need to press Start on to begin a stage, but there is a delay before you can press Start, which on several occasions led to me button mashing the A button, accidentally wasting lots of precious gold on useless time-freezing powerups. - The HUD takes up a lot of space and hides enemies and pickups. Luckily, you can disable the HUD with the Select button, but then you don't know how much HP or consumables you have. - There is also a lot of clu…

Riddled Corpses, developed by Daniel Fernandez Chavez and published by Diabolical Mind, is a fast-paced twin-stick shooter that embraces the spirit of old-school arcade chaos with an unrelenting intensity. From the moment the first wave of monsters fills the screen, it becomes clear that this is not a game that compromises on its retro roots. It’s a bullet-soaked, zombie-slaying experience that feels pulled straight from the golden age of coin-operated action games, but with enough modern polish and progression systems to keep players hooked for longer stretches. The premise is simple—humanity has fallen to a monstrous horde, and it’s up to a group of survivors to mow through endless waves of the undead and other creatures across a series of apocalyptic landscapes. The story is barely more than a setup for the mayhem, but in a game like this, that’s entirely intentional. Riddled Corpses doesn’t aim to immerse players in deep narrative arcs or complex lore; instead, it delivers pure, distilled arcade adrenaline with every stage and every bullet fired. At its core, Riddled Corpses thrives on its tight and responsive twin-stick mechanics. One analog stick moves your character while t…

Really grindy, but fun. I had this game on Switch as well, so I'm fairly familiar with the fact that I'm still unable to beat it. Its definitely easier with friends than alone. The best strategy for the game is to keep replaying the first stage to grind until your able to get all the available upgrades to actually beat the full five stages. Not all at once mind you, at a certain point you'll want to go back and grind for the consumables so that you can go through the final stage. I never got that far, because at a certain point it is that grindy. I still really enjoy it though, it has a very classic arcad-y feel that I really enjoy. Its definitely easier to grind with friends though, as there's one character that attracts all the gold and one that doubles the rate at which gold drops. Put those two together, and grinding becomes much faster

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