Well, the last time I got worn out like this, I was crawling through Ravelholm in HL2. Sheer chaos and absolutely gorgeously amazingly somethingly whateverly brilliant.
No, seriously, I'm worn out, my head hurts and is spinning. Any game that can have such an effect on someone is worthy of 5 stars.
Oh this game reminds me so much of Inner Space. None of you have probably heard of it, so hopefully this link will work (takes you to the relevant Wikipedia article).
When I played that I spent most of my time thinking "This would be awesome in multiplayer", and now here it is. Couple of things that I miss from it, like the ability to ram other ships, and the "Handcuff" weapon, which let you grab onto ships and fling them at other stuff, but I guess I can do without those and give this game a nice, healthy 4 stars.
Whoah....
I feel like I've just come out of some weird coma. Well, when even the menu takes a little figuring out, you know that there's going to be something new and insane in it. It's certainly new and I seriously doubt its sanity, especially after listening to that really creepy music. I really don't know what to make of it, so I'll give it 4 stars and then figure it out later.
BOOYAH! Excellent. My previous comments about how badly it lags are now null and void, since I have discovered the magic of pipelining with Firefox. Now it all runs sweet as sugar for me and is well deserving of 5 stars.
Despite Run n Gun being crap.
Really quite bad. It's a very nice new way of controlling things, which saves it from the 1 star, but the things that you are controlling are really quite awful and are pretty much impossible to use properly.
OK, I gave this 2 stars. The game itself is absolutely perfectly done in every way, except that the notes on screen are almost always out of sync with the music being played, even on low quality, making the entire thing soooo much harder.
If that can be fixed, then I'll up it to 5 stars.
Spectacular, worth every one of those five stars. Only thing I want from it is the level up pictures from Defender.
Seriously, what kind of wizard doesn't wear a hat?
I have only a few minor quibbles. First, if I finish a section in a state where I am close to death, but it can be avoided with a little bit of steroid-like gaming reflexes, and and then go back in, I can't get focussed enough to fix it.
Also, the christmassy spinning ball jump thing is way to easy, because you can just leave it without moving the green ball and it'll go on for ages.
Aside from those, a brilliant piece of flash gaming for those with the attention span of a hyperactive ferret.
This is a fairly poor game; there is little or no sense of progress, there is no explanation of storyline, the single gun that you're asked to use is nigh on impossible to use well, and for some reason, the building section is broken for me. Do I need to drag it or something? Call me naive, but doesn't the absence of a red cross on something mean you're allowed to build it?
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