Rogue Sentry

Quick Score: 3/5 Decently fun little twin stick metroidvania (ish) game. Difficulty is a tad low for 90% of the game and it doesn't really offer any replayability. On the surface it does, because it has 4 game modes and 8 different endings, but it is all pretty much the same, and 100%ing the game is more of a repetitive chore than anything else. A single "100%" playthrough will take about 90 to 120 minutes, and that's about what you should expect to get out of the game. Fully getting all achievements could take up to 6 hours but I doubt you find much enjoyment in doing so. Overall it's decent, but very basic and repetitive. There are much better twin stick games out there.

Good and methodical core gameplay on deliberate movement to survive onslaughts of bullet hells. Lovely audiovisual. Unfortunately, the list of good things ends here. This game tries way too hard to be hard. The amount of one-shotting lasers is insane, checkpoints are spreaded across dozens of incredibly punishing rooms, and progress is completely lost (except for the respawning location) upon death. Spent almost an hour (which is half of the game, according to the store page) of being lost and stuck before randomly stumbling into the map. I'm a masochist, but I'd have to hate myself magnitudinally more to even try finishing this.

One of my favourites! Severly underrated. Small, charming, fun and reminds me of 2000's hobbyist games (in the best of ways). I really hope Mapledev makes more games!

Very challenging, but really fun.

It's a fun, short little twin stick shooter. Without adding spoilers, you get some upgrades to your craft which actually do kind of change the play a bit. Not in a huge profound way, but just enough to help you get through some of the tougher rooms. There are no rogue-ish mechanics in the game, the word is from the Sentry that has gone rogue. But that's ok the game doesn't try to present itself that way. Just saying. It took me a little less that 1.5h to finish the main game. Then I tried the other modes that opened up but they weren't different enough to really warrant playing through the game again. I'd say get it for 70% off. It's worth playing but it's not really long enough to pay full price. I probably have more than double the hours the average player would have before they finished or gave up. I guess I was hoping something worthwhile would open up in subsequent plays but it didn't really. It's actually is a charming and fun game. The graphics are simple but nice, the sounds and music were just fine. No complaints at all.

Of all the games I've played in my years, I have never felt like a game has deliberately flipped me off for just existing. Today, that has changed. 10/10