Winged Raider

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"Winged Raider" is a very poorly made 2D retro pixel platformer, yes, one of thousands of amateur 2D retro pixel platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere just by existing. What do you do in the game? This 2D retro pixel platformer has you flapping around and shooting stuff with a rifle, because someone flunked history class the same year they flunked game development class. It makes no sense, and even worse, it's contentless. This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks much worse than most other games because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them. The developer chose not to do the job of a real game developer and create meaningful bespoke levels, narrative based gameplay progression and so on. Instead, they decided that "Procgen IS content!" and lazily tried to use…

why do people play this?

is a fun lil game is hard as heck but still fun hehe

[h1]Before I played Winged Raider, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

recommended to me by a friend. Pros: i like that i can shoot in the main menu, feels nice lol simplistic, nice pixel art style. guns all feel balanced, no huge gap between what is good and bad (besides revolver lol) drops after boss are a nice addition. second phases for bosses make the fight more interesting (but still a bit dull.) healing after killing enemies is a must for this game, if not for that, it would be unplayable. Cons: obvious divide in the strength of wings, cooldowns on some are far too long to justify use. game feels claustrophobic being shot and hit by enemies off-screen feels a bit cheap. especially falling downwards right ontop of them (skill issue) Recommendations: jump should be space without a doubt, or allow me to change the bind. zoom the screen out a bit more. feels very claustrophobic, feel as if i cannot see much... (maybe intended?) in the same breath, make the map bigger, a bit hard to tell where i am at on it, but not unusable. boss health bar could use a background? maybe add white space from where the health is shrunk so there is a sense of progression throughout the fight (although the second phases were a nice addition!) game is a bit reminis…