Swordship

Really really cool. I played on easy, to my surprise I finished a run through. I'm not very skilled but I felt like a stunt driver and with the electronic music felt like a rock star. Gonna give it a go again someday.

It's interesting and unique but that don't mean it's good.

TLDR - looks like it should be great but suffers from that artificial difficulty BS that plagues low content roguelikes to pad out the experience. I want to like this game, the art style and simple game play is all up my street, the game is incredibly short, 3 x 3 levels and then one final boss. The only variation besides colour is that the 1st set has no environmental risk, 2nd set you can crash into the sides and 3rd set left and right barriers appear. It seems like this lack of content is fleshed out by frustration, the the timing and placement of things in the game appears very deliberate and not so random as a roguelike would suggest. If you see the line for an incoming container and enemies pop up without warning between you and it just as your moving towards it, don't die with that obvious ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, dodge all the attacks and explosions and manage to pick up a container and all of a sudden the screen is full of crap, delivery pads will be directly in the path of danger, it takes ages to drop off a container whilst constantly having to move off the D pad to dodge successive attacks, eventually D pads just ♥♥♥♥ off and that's a lost container because you won't be able to pi…

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Such a cool and addictive game. Loved the simple but highly efficient art direction. A hidden gem!

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