Recent reviews by TH3V01D

Good game!

I like this game a lot. It's fun, it has a variety of game modes, it looks and sounds good and it has zero input lag.
However...
- No keyboard button remapping. The default buttons are unfavorable. I am willing to overlook this because I have recently discovered that my keyboard driver lets me change the buttons to my liking.
-The leaderboard has no information about the stage you lost at, just a name and a score. Which means that I can't boast about a 1all or a 2all to anyone.
-The "Whomp 'Em" achievement "Defeat the Yamada Virus without continuing" did not unlock after I did a 1ALL of arcade+.
-Although it sounds good there are slight pops when explosions happen, but that's quite insignificant.
-The big kicker: the game FREEZES, a lot! At first I was able to pause then unpause to make it move again. Then the big freezes started happening, the ones where your screen becomes black after beating a boss and you just hope something will happen, but nothing ever does. Or the ones where you game over, the continue option never shows up, you watch the boss time out, then the screen becomes black forever. Because of this I am unable to finish runs, I am unable to play the game.

Buy at your own risk.

The image stutters constantly regardless of graphics options. It ruins the game.

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Reflex is a unique shoot 'em up with a shield mechanic made by Siter Skain in 2008. It has eight stages to get through with a length of about 45 minutes.
You can take seven hits until you game over, your life recharges to full at the beginning of areas five and seven.
One extra continue is earned on each game over.
Your shield can reflect blue attacks and delete red bullets, missiles and physical contact will pass through, it recharges faster when the shot button is released. Killing enemies with reflected bullets or lasers in quick succession will give a multiplier starting at 4 and capping at 64. Killing enemies with your shot shortly after reflecting will keep that multiplier going until the orange bar depletes. Scoring does not help survival play but it gives the game longevity after beating it.
It has memorable moments such as a scripted event where your ship explodes but you come back with more firepower and infinite shield. The downside of this sequence is that you will also game over in one hit, memorizing every hazard on this part is mandatory for a one credit clear.
The music is great, the fast scrolling background and warning sound effects before each boss fight will send shivers down your spine.

I bought this game because I like Koto Inari's artworks, but that doesn't drive this enough to be good.
It is focused on dialogue but the English translation is so broken I can hardly follow the conversation. The text boxes are also cut off by the screen in some instances. The English is fine on the pages you find scattered on floors though.
The story and events are incoherent and never explained. Some were funny, but I found myself constantly going "what?" and "what now?".
You have dialogue choices at certain points which dictate the route you go on. You either get extra areas and characters to talk to, or just skip them entirely. The game is fairly short so you can replay it and choose again.
The progression is made by solving "puzzles", which consist of you walking back and forth the screens talking to characters with or without the eye mechanic active, hoping that one of them says something new, or gives you a random item.
It suffers from minor frame skipping throughout the whole experience.
If this game is about madness it sure succeeds at also driving the player mad.

I went into this expecting a stinker, but I was pleasantly surprised.
It's very similar to Disc Room, dodge and dash various attacks the bosses throw at you. There's three bosses right now with three levels of difficulty for each. The dash does not have invincibility frames, you can use it to get to safety quicker or deal damage. The hitless achievements are a nice challenge.
It would be a more pleasant experience if the camera wasn't isometric, and instead top down. If you're at the top of the screen you can't clearly see what the boss is doing if he's at the bottom, but after retrying a couple of times you'll get used to the attacks and anticipate the next move.
Randomness is a big factor. The miner is 100% fair, but the worm and the ghost can sometimes overlap attacks and there's nothing you can do about it, you'll get hit.

I could not get it running in full screen perfectly. G-sync isn't recognized. It was either image stuttering, or screen tearing, or pixelized image by stretching the window with borderless gaming, or input lag. Which would you choose? I chose none.
Meanwhile Yuzu runs Cotton Reboot! in full screen perfectly.
The intro video also plays way louder than any of the in game audio, so you have to mute the sound every time you start the game.
The control scheme for keyboard is arrow keys for movement z,x,c,v for attacks. There's four attack types shot, bomb, fever and shot+bomb. You can switch the order that you want the attacks to be in on the controller screen. Standard shooting game control scheme, no complaint here.
I really didn't want to refund it, but not being able to play it properly in full screen is a deal breaker for me.

Probably the best backrooms game out there. No jump scares, just pure exploration and atmosphere.
You go from area to area each connected by elevators, arai-san mansion style. You never know where you're going to end up. I got out of the elevator in a concrete room, I heard crickets, I crouched under a wall and I saw a suburbian street. The sky then turned blood red and I quickly got into a nearby house, I was hearing an odd noise, I followed it. Going down the stairs I saw a dark hole, I stared into it thinking something will happen, but nothing did.
I just wish the game had better performance and sharper visuals, it's very blurry. You can zoom the camera in and out but it won't help much.

Six stages of pure joy! Three difficulty levels for beginners and experts alike. There are no lives instead you get a health bar that can take thirteen hits. Scoring is fairly easy, the higher your health bar is when finishing levels the higher the bonus, big enemies give score based on your distance to them, get up close for x10! Recently updated with a true last boss for normal and hard difficulties.