Space Runaway

[h1] Cool 16-bit-like shooter with mechs and alien robot scum. Plays well with controller. Music is good and nice to listen to. 3 type of weapons, laser (power), homing (easy hit) and rifle (good all rounder). Stun enemies then release fire to make them explode, simple but again cool idea. Might be kinda hard depending on the skills of course. Lack of proper options like setting up custom controls and screen resolution is the main con here. Play if you like shooters, definitely a good game. [/h1]

It's a free game with good graphics, good music and the play feel is overall fine. Recommended if you like old style arcade games that have checkpoint re-spawns and creating recovery routes. The gripe I have with this game is that the game is very unbalanced in terms of boss patterns and player's shot abilities. You choose your weapon by collecting a rotating color item just like Tatsujin. Blue weapon (laser) is outright broken in terms of damage, dealing 3~4 times of damage than any other types. Red homing laser is complete utter trash, it cannot defeat any enemies at all at Level 1. Yellow is fine, but it lacks damage just like Red. There is absolutely no reason to select anything but blue. Since the blue laser does humongous damage, most of the bosses can be beaten in less than 2 seconds if you spam 2 bombs and keep shooting the core with the blue laser. This tactic does not work on Stage 5 boss, since it's just a cluster fxxx of patterns, where the enemy spawns BEHIND the boss sprites with random exploding bullets coming from the bottom side of your ship. Good luck dealing with that. I have given up on Stage 5 boss for the moment. Overall, the game is not that bad, it take…

Hitbox is comically big, and to boot if any pixel grazes a wall you're dead too. It's old school hard but imho not in the good way that keeps you coming back, unless of course you like that sort of difficulty - just not for me. If I'm gonna get my stones busted it's playing something a lot cooler than this. But tbh it's not bad, it's fine. The only objectively bad thing about it is how enemies don't explode when defeated right away they just sort of linger there for a bit? It's really weird and not sure what the intent was there.

[h1]#tinygamereviews[/h1] [code] R-Type-styled sidescrolling space shooter, but with a mech. Plays awful without a controller.[/code] [list] [*][b][u]Overall Score[/u][/b]: 2/5 [/list] [hr][/hr] [h1][b]Curator: [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42137521/]Nostalginauts[/url][/b][/h1]

Dead enemies aren't instantly removed from the screen. Instead, for some reason they are moved to the top of the sprite stack and obscure your vision of oncoming threats. For a shmup that's just bad design, and it's only exacerbated by the size of your sprite and hitbox. Otherwise, I didn't see much not done better by Hyper Duel or Cybattler. I mean, it's free so try it if you want, but there are so many better horizontal shmups that feel good out the gate that I can't recommend this game.

Why on earth make this when there is a zillion from the era shootemups already available.