L.G.C. |Reviews| — Retrobooster

This week your intrepid heroes play with rockets, spin in circles, and bend physics.


Game: Retrobooster

Webzone: http://www.reallyslick.com/retrobooster/

Devel: Really Slick

Engine: Custom

Price: $17.99 / €12.99

Wazzat: A reinvention of the cave-flyer for players who love games of skill. You control an extremely responsive ship, which opens up new possibilities for speed flying challenges, puzzles, and bullet hell scenarios. This game is set at 1980s difficulty–Survive it if you can.


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Shiny / Sounds

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  • It’s a bad sign when the particle effects outshine the one thing you are constantly looking at ..ze ship.

  • The backgrounds look fantastic but the lemmings and baddies are meh incarnate.

  • I actually enjoyed the retro inspired soundtrack.

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  • More often than not, enemies will be off-screen and you kinda have to guess where they are  to shoot them down.


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Control

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  • The controls worked OOTB /w the Xclone

  • Tight and responsive unlike your mum.

  • They work for navigating the puzzles and setting the lemmings on fire.

  • That said, they are FK mothering useless /w this physics when it goes all bullet-hell

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  • This is a tricky section.   The controls themselves are spot on

  • However, you require the ability and co-ordination to use the controls effectively

 

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  • SDL2 kicks several kinds of ass!

    • That or Terry did a very good job with getting my Dual Shock 2 to be properly recognized.


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FUN

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  • The gravity mechanic is annoying and inconstant. My ship and the lemmings are the only two things affected by it. The baddies have FK all anti-grav moon tech.

  • $17.99 worth of fun? That’s almost two Goat Stimulator’s.

  • Try before you buy guys and goils.

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  • Oh god the physics

  • The dudes you’re supposed to be rescuing are a mite suicidal.

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  • It’s the proper kind of difficult.

  • Doesn’t get the perfect score because I get a bit motion-sick in a few of the levels and the price point is a bit… much!


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