Took me six hours, but I managed it: all 100 levels of the mind of Minter completed. There were many points in this where I wanted to scream, cry, and throw things: a whole bunch of these (the ones that stick in my mind are 38 and 96) are just horrible, painful affairs, absolutely rotten to the core, and when you finally do clear them you'll go through a handful of breather levels that will then turn out to be the game just winding up for another haymaker. Late in the game an enemy will get introduced that traverses the entire field, periodically firing sustained barrages, and it can never be destroyed and will reflect your own shots back at you. The immediate next level introduces two at once. I feel like Andy DuFresne crawling down the tunnel playing this. Awesome game! When someone Jacks In to hack something in a cyberpunk movie it should be visually represented by them having to play a level of Tempest. So cool.

Not without a bunch of problems on PC, though. 9 times out of 10 it would crash on startup and when I finally cleared level 100 my reward was a screen I had to Task Manager out of. Nice one.

Reviewed on Feb 05, 2023


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