Some impressions:
Onager!
Surprised it took this long for a Angry Birds clone to surface. So yeah Angry Birds except not cute, less interesting level design, and unforgiving catapult controls. Can only increase angle. You go to far? Oh well! Made even worse by it fighting with my controller's dead zone, slight tap and it could move it a tiny bit or set it all the way to the max. Other than the aiming it's a pretty satisfactory clone.
Paper Sky
The music... dear god. It repeats the same horrible bleeps over and over. Then it stops after a few minutes, dead silence. And then it starts again.... As for the game, horizontal shooter. The graphics are pretty nice and stylized. You play as a paper airplane shooting down ufos made of construction paper I guess. Unfortunately it seems way too easy. The enemy bullets are very slow, as are most of the enemies, you can survive one hit, and are given powerups that will make it even more of a breeze. Trial time ran out for me on the second boss, an evil window fan that tries to suck you in while shooting stuff at you. Up to that point the only times I died were when I was experimenting to see what kind of damage you took. There is also a power beam you never need to use that has it's own charge meter, and an experience system I didn't figure out but seemed unimportant. With some tweaks this could be pretty good.
The Charge
Simple gameplay concept + joke song = profit. Add in some pictures of girls in bikini tops and female voice acting and you have a mega hit! In truth this game is pretty well put together, good graphics, looks to be 60fps. It all seems a bit boring though, going forward and flying through rings. Basically a rail shooter like Rez or Starfox without shooting. Add in the second half of the gameplay and I'd be interested. Could do without the song, though. Can only understand the "this is the charge" and the "will she spit/swallow" part. Everything else is British accented gibberish to me.
Cosmic Cab
If
Gravitron360 and
Astro Taxi mated. I'd recommend both of those over this. But they don't have avatars in them so this will probably outsell both of them combined.
Junk Fields
Informed a Enemy began move up.
We're toast if they arrivalle here.
Destroy them all at all of costs. We Not downed this place. Good Luck.
Yeah. It's a Japanese game. About mechs destroying tanks and trucks with sword beams or something. I couldn't figure it out even though it was in "English".
Distant Galaxies
Hypership On Cruise Control. Retro looking vertical shooter that just feels soooo slow. Also your bullets have a very limited range, I guess you can fix that if you find enough powerups, but the powerups are as scarce as the enemies. First level consists mostly of one enemy appearing on screen at a time that you just fly up to and shoot it in the face. Near the end of the level you might get two... And you can literally count off several parts of the stage where there's 5-10 seconds of nothing happening. Maybe it eventually gets challenging, but I'm not sticking around to find out...
Honor in Vengeance
Unskipabble painfully slow black screen with white text. Great start to this supposed "full blown voice acting". Something something Earth, Mars, resources, kill all Martians or Earthlings or something... Oh hey the game started. Can barely hear the voice "actors", can barely see the black enemy ships against the black void of space, can barely see anything in front of me because of the awful camera angle that shows me a wonderful view of things below where I am shooting. I am shooting orange balls also. I give up.
TwinStick
You know what would make a twin stick shooter fun?
Changing the controls every 30 seconds and making everything painfully slow? No, that's wrong.
Block Destruction
Breakout clone. Yeah. Though I liked that one of the power down items is the red ring of death. Blacks out the screen except for the paddle/ball. Clever. Also bizarre thing... one of the tracks in the game was used in the far more interesting
bricks4ever as it's title track. Is there something about
this song that makes people want to break bricks??
