ARTERIA

Will you maybe add more levels? That’s all I’m asking if that’ll happen

At first glance, this game might not seem like much. The graphics and animations arent the greatest, and you can clearly tell it’s a unity game, and although the assets are all original, you might think it’s just trying to be a bootleg gundam to get downloads or something, although thankfully there’s NO ADS! But the gameplay is where this game reveals its true potential. It’s deceptively simple, you just jump and shoot and enemies try to shoot you, but you and the enemies all die in one hit, and a few levels in the enemies start to dodge all your shots. The only way to hit them is to either get up close, trap them against an obstacle, or sometimes get lucky, and this ends up making a surprisingly fun and challenging combat system. Naturally, as the game progresses you see more enemy types and the difficulty increases, the enemies move faster and get better and better at dodging your attacks, and you have to adapt and dodge everything yourself, with a single hit killing you. It’s a very old school kind of difficulty, but it doesn’t feel unfair, the game is consistent in its mechanics and you just have to learn it to get better. The controls are definitely janky and added to the difficulty a bit, a controller would probably be best, but I still beat it all on touchscreen. If you happen to read this review and want a challenging little game to play through, I recommend this.