Zone of Lacryma

[h1] Tiny shooter with some minor story in which you gotta fly fast to charge shields and increase firepower. Your job is to do simple tasks for "some peculiar company". Each mission grant you experience which can be used to upgrade your trusty spaceship. Controls are good and nothing to complain here. Visuals try to stand out and use only few colors palette with low res graphics. Sounds are ok but a bit too loud and very crunchy. Ok game if you want something small and shorter to play. [/h1]

Quick but sweet SHMUP with a simple but engaging leveling system in which your Score is your Experience to level up and get bonus stats such as bullet speed or recharge rate. Took me around 3h to beat with a lot of retries on the last few missions, but there was absolutely no filler, no stages where I actually knew what was going to happen, it was exclusively good content from start to finish. Might be a bit overpriced for the time you'll likely spend on it but it's really fun to replay as levels have are many separate parallel paths to complete.

I liked it.

A fun little shooter/slasher with a story thats seem decent but ends too early and generally on a very unsatysfying note. Not very long, took me 3 hours to pass the 11 missions, but only a few percent of people finished it so for most it might be longer.

I can just barely recommend this because I got it on a very steep sale, but even then it has some big caveats. Good stuff: - It really tries to do something new. It's mostly a visual novel with some very old school shooting game stages between its chapters. Very, very old school. - The artistic expression here is genuinely nice. The restrained color palette, the spacious stages, the somber soundtrack, it all feels good together. Neutral stuff: - It's very short. Not necessarily a big deal, most shmups are, but since this is leaning more into the world of being a story that you play through, it's a bit more difficult to accept. I've only played for 30 minutes and I'm more than halfway through the whole game. To keep the runtime down, the writing is extremely blunt. It relies heavily on tropes, and as a result it's a story you've heard many times before. As someone who reads a lot of sci-fi, I can't really get into it. - Increasing weapon power as a result of how high you're keeping your combo is certainly a choice. Rough edges: - If you play games like this, you're not going to like the default control mapping. - You're also not going to like how fast the ship moves. - You're goi…

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