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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 1.3 hrs on record
Posted: 10 Aug, 2024 @ 4:23am

This is one of those games I wish there was a middle option on the reviews. not recommended but not a full on dislike either.

The basics of this game is you play an unnamed astronaut sent to Mars to investigate an SOS and the loss of contact with the residents on the colony there. Once arriving, he has to defend various generators from mutants/aliens/Martians/something. It's not really clear what they are, and only one of the cutscenes references them as "mutants".
The game looks like a typical Flash game of old and not very complex. basically a 2D wave survival game with you against a bunch of mindless enemies that only walk back and forth. there's different types of mutans, starting with just the red ones. but every few levels or less, a new variant appears, from green ones that tank 4 times as many shots, to speedy blue ones that much faster but can't take a hit. and flying ones that move slow but do a lot of damage. The enemies will path find towards the generator on each mission and start attacking it, or if you get close enough to them they will attack you also, however they never specifically go after you, even in the last level that has no generator and you just have to kill a bunch of them.
If they destroy the generator, which has a health bar, you lose, or if you lose your health you lose. The game is fairly easy and power ups like health or other weapons spawn constantly. so it's difficult to actually die. I never actually died. but I did struggle on one of the levels where they kept destroying the generator. but I finally figured out the pattern on the 4th try and beat it no problem. I didn't lose any other rounds.

You have unlimited ammo in your gun, but 4 shots before an automatic reload. you can also pick up temporary weapons around the map that spawn and range from faster firing machine gun with a larger magazine to a big plasma gun to even a 3 shot plasma shotgun. Each one also has unlimited ammo but with reloading needed after a few shots. however each one you can only have for 30 seconds.

the game isn't bad, but needs some quality of life updates to be good. for one you have no idea how many enemies you have to kill for the round to end. There is no enemy counter, there is no progress bar or any time limit. there's no indication at all on your progress during a round. you just have to keep killing mutants until it says you win. these can last from 5 to 10 minutes sometimes. there really needs to be an indicator of how many to kill.

there's 12 rounds where you defend a generator. they aren't to difficult except for one. and then the final round 13 is you just have to kill a bunch of them till you win. no generator. it's not difficult, just needs improvements. If you don't die or have to start over, you can beat it in about an hour. It's nothing to write home about but can be a fun little time waster for an hour.

Not bad... but not good. and there's enough material here I can make a voice acting video on Hyper Frost Productions.
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2 Comments
>=SF=< Quantom X 7 Sep, 2024 @ 10:21pm 
@calista lol thanks. Good luck with your community badge.
76561199767868723 7 Sep, 2024 @ 7:39pm 
Wow,your review is on point! So much info and thought put into it. I'm seriously impressed. Keep it up! 💖👏