Otto Matic

Difficult to control movements. Game does not save but resets to beginning. I used to play the older computer versions but have never finished because of the games on/off again relationship with Apple. And yet again on my ipad I am thwarted since the game does not save. I guess I give up and will delete.

I used to play this as a kid, it was much more enjoyable when you are able to use the keyboard as game controller. The IPad version using on screen controller and is extremely erratic. It makes the game incredibly frustrating.

I loved playing this game as a little kid and I’ve even looked into Power Mac emulation in an effort to somehow play it again. So I was floored when I saw that this game was in the iOS store and had controller support. It seems like this game is rendered at native resolution or something very sharp on my 2020 iPad Pro, and it also appears that the game targets 60 fps and often hits that, but it’s hard to tell. However, playing this again has made me realize that there were some glaring omissions in the gameplay. The biggest one is by far the complete lack of any camera control. The right joystick does nothing, but how I wish it did! At one point, I was fighting this giant machine boss thing, and I had to just shoot at the general direction of where it might be because the camera was turned away from it and there was no way to fix that. The other issues are smaller, like the way that there are many invisible barriers that your gun can’t shoot through (like by item boxes), but enemies can shoot through those same barriers and hit you, making for some frustrating gameplay. I could go on, but really, if the camera were fixed, this game would hold up far better against today’s 3D games. All that being said, I have deep respect for the developer keeping his games playable on these newer platforms so that they can live on in a playable state. Thanks!