In a game like Velocity 2X, where it almost feels like the game has been designed around the dodge mechanic, ACS's dodge feels more like it was dropped in at the end and frequently will dodge you straight into a bullet pattern.Ī City Sleeps is so close to being amazing, the soundtrack is great, the third stage is wonderful but it doesn't quite feel right in the same way a good shmup should.Ħ1. The lack of bullet cancelling mixed with the time to kill being so high winds up making this a bit of an unsatisfying experience, and on later difficulties you have to make extensive use of the dodge, which due to the analogue controls can feel frustrating and imprecise. Your primary shot is about as powerful as blowing sweetcorn down a straw, and while you can build a special gauge by getting up close and attacking with your sword, it's more like you're slapping someone with a branch and killing anything takes an absolute age, especially if the tempo of the music decreases your character fires in time with the music and I've taken hits plenty of times where the music has changed and my character just attacks less now apparently. The learning process isn't satisfying because you dont just have a pattern to navigate, you also have to deal with manually aiming your shots. I played a bit of Dodonapchi Daifukkatsu after playing this the difference in the two stems from the fact that in DDP you will die a lot but always know it was becuase you failed to avoid or navigate a bullet pattern, but in this it is sometimes the case that you just get battered by a string of hits from an enemy that spawned in front of you out of nowhere. The game is very Euro-shooter like, in that you have a health bar and can take a bunch of hits before dying, but the combination of twin slightly too many bullets on screen at once, them being difficult to see at times (light pink on pale blue is not easy) can make it a bit of a slog at times. There are a couple of problems though - namely that there is no facility to bullet cancel/bomb, and while you are given a dodge it has no invincibility frames so you willl still take damage when using it. Without going into too mcuh detail, A City Sleeps would be a perfectly competent horizontal shooter, and takes a ton of inspiration from bullet hell games with its bullet paterns. A City Sleeps is more or less a bullet hell shmup crossed with a twin stick shooter and a rhythm game and it's almost brilliant but doesn't quite get there. I can't remember whether my boy insisted that I play this, or actually went out of the way and bought me a copy. I have no idea what counts as 1CCing this game, but you see the credits after finishing all three stages on two difficulties, and I've done it on three and also don't want to play it any more. A City Sleeps (all stages on 3/5 difficulty) Crimzon Clover World Ignition (1CC, Novice True Clear)Ħ0. The rest of the Cube Escape Collection gamesĠ6a: Heaven Will Be Mine (all the other endings)ĥ5. The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbiaģ5a. Milk Inside a Bag of Milk Inside a Bag of Milk. Hello Charlotte Episode 3: Childhood's Endġ0. Hello Charlotte Episode 2: Requiem Aeternam DeoĠ3. God knows whatever story was dribbling out of my speakers but with a game like this who cares.Ġ2. Loved it lots early on, looked great and had some meaty gunplay but by the end I was fucking sick of it, well, that's a bit harsh but I was ready to uninstall quick smart. Those constant pop up missions got ejected around half way through, wish I'd spewed them earlier tbh, there was enough there with just the main missions.Īnyway, had lot of fun, game was great, I should have been a little more judicious with what I took on with regards to the periphery is all. It was a lot of fun for most of the game but my OCD of trying to do every little thing really didn't jive with its mission setup. By the time I finished The Foundation I was well and truly burnt out and just wanted it to end. Was super impressed with the Ray Tracing and tech of the game and was intrigued by the story, at the beginning.

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