The game describes itself as having 'trial & error gameplay' and yeah, sure does. Even if it's intentional it's definitely not very fun. An interesting mechanic on paper that doesn't really work at all. Also maybe the least visually polished game of the whole Playdate season. Nah.
A ideia de um jogo de navinha mas as balas são limitadas e recocheteiam de volta pra você? Incrível. Mas quem pensou que seria uma boa ideia num console capaz de salvar e ter fases a única forma de jogar seja ir até o final de uma vez?
Cool concept, just a bit annoying to play
Un mal juego, sin más que aportar. No se siente bien concebido ni lo bastante bien implementado como para que me pueda atraer jugar a más de un par de niveles. Entiendo que hacer una versión propia de Gradius es algo que viene atrayendo a desarrolladores de todo el mundo desde los ochenta, pero el estándar de calidad que el género pone muy difícil a un juego neófito presentarse con una idea original.
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A bad game, what can I say. It doesn't feel well conceived or implemented enough to entice me to play it. I understand that making your own version of Gradius is something that has attracted developers from all over the world since the eighties, but the quality standard set out by the genre makes it very difficult for neophytes to come up with an original idea.
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A bad game, what can I say. It doesn't feel well conceived or implemented enough to entice me to play it. I understand that making your own version of Gradius is something that has attracted developers from all over the world since the eighties, but the quality standard set out by the genre makes it very difficult for neophytes to come up with an original idea.
Difficulty gets a bit unfair quickly, with one specific level with a ship in a small corridor that wouldn't go down despite all the firepower I had being pumped into it. Like a lot of playdate games, it's more of a sketch of a cool shmup than something fully fledged, but the concepts at play are good. Just the execution isn't. And it doesn't have much in the way of aesthetics going for it
Battleship Godios is a really interesting concept for a game, a shooter where you have to catch your bullet as it bounces around the level - losing it altogether if it goes off-screen. It feels a bit like breakout crossed with a simple 80s shooter.
Each level is fairly short, and the difficulty ramps up quickly. If you get hit, you lose a life but can rewind time using the crank as far back as you like and resume. You can also just rewind time whenever you want, it seems, and with minimal penalty - so if your bullets fly off screen you can rewind time to before you lost them and try again. When you do well (kill enemies fast, clear levels without dying or maybe(?) without rewinding) you are rewarded with lives. It's quite easy to rack up a considerable count of lives in the early few levels, but it's equally easy to lose them all very quickly - especially if you're careless with the rewinds.
Some of the later encounters are very unforgiving, requiring you to move around in tight spaces as the ship you're attacking randomly changes speed. Memorization is basically required, however the game is also very short so that is not too onerous.
Once you've beaten all the levels, the game just loops only this time the enemies are pretty much completely invisible! At this point the game doesn't even try to hide how memorization heavy it is, you literally are just trying to hit invisible targets from your recall of where they were previously. I didn't find this fun, so once I'd run out of lives in this mode I didn't try again.
Each level is fairly short, and the difficulty ramps up quickly. If you get hit, you lose a life but can rewind time using the crank as far back as you like and resume. You can also just rewind time whenever you want, it seems, and with minimal penalty - so if your bullets fly off screen you can rewind time to before you lost them and try again. When you do well (kill enemies fast, clear levels without dying or maybe(?) without rewinding) you are rewarded with lives. It's quite easy to rack up a considerable count of lives in the early few levels, but it's equally easy to lose them all very quickly - especially if you're careless with the rewinds.
Some of the later encounters are very unforgiving, requiring you to move around in tight spaces as the ship you're attacking randomly changes speed. Memorization is basically required, however the game is also very short so that is not too onerous.
Once you've beaten all the levels, the game just loops only this time the enemies are pretty much completely invisible! At this point the game doesn't even try to hide how memorization heavy it is, you literally are just trying to hit invisible targets from your recall of where they were previously. I didn't find this fun, so once I'd run out of lives in this mode I didn't try again.
Not completely broken per se, but oof, this just isn't fun and using the crank to respawn ends up causing more inadvertent deaths than anything else.
TPM CO Soft Works still out there making the best games around.
If Tarotica Voo Doo was about "what's your physical relationship to space in an adventure game", this one's that concept applied to shooting games. "What if you only had one bullet and you had to catch it to keep shooting" is hilarious on its face, but what's special is making it work. And it works! It works so well. Doging bullets and enemies feels so different when you're dodging in all directions trying to get your bullet back, not the specific kind of movement that happens when you're always going forward.
If Tarotica Voo Doo was about "what's your physical relationship to space in an adventure game", this one's that concept applied to shooting games. "What if you only had one bullet and you had to catch it to keep shooting" is hilarious on its face, but what's special is making it work. And it works! It works so well. Doging bullets and enemies feels so different when you're dodging in all directions trying to get your bullet back, not the specific kind of movement that happens when you're always going forward.