Nebula

It is an okay bullet heaven game. wins -Simple brain-off game -worked on steam controller 2 -simple progression that helps you feel more powerful -achievable 100% game - i'm bad so took 14 hours it says (some afk). probably 8-10 hours? BIGGEST GRIPE -it seems like picking up the leveling up icon REPLACES all XP on your bar... so you could be 99% to a level and lose that progress by getting the stupid level up thing... What sucks - -The autoaim is absolute garbage. it is so dumb, slow, inaccurate that it MISSES mobs. It feels like the game is trying to sabotage you. It is not explained the mode of auto-aim and it feels infuriating seeing it is not proximity based, or mob based. Dev should add a whole auto-aim option to choose between different types because it is ***. -You can't see info clearly on what guns you have, so you must learn the names and icons of everything to know what it does - and you cannot hover over them while paused. Just feels half baked. -The gradual weapon/hangar upgrade progression feels... very spikey, you go from underpowered to suddenly OP and back and forth based on what ship you take and what powerups you get. -Visually cluttered - some weapons make it much more difficult to see the play space -You can run into the same bullet over and over - it doesn't get deleted when you take damage, so you can end up on top of one and just die because you are going the same direction. -Not all ships (or builds) are comparable in power level at all - HUGE discrepancy. -Many achievements become harder as you unlock more weapons - the draft pool gets larger, but you have to be extremely selective for the 5-6 weapon required achieves. -occasional slow down - when you do not kill the enemies fast enough nor pick up a magnet - the board is full of sprites and it just chugs at 2-4 fps. -if you don't kill all the enemies they start deleting (meaning you can never get XP from them) effectively gimping your progress. -sound effects are very low fi and get annoying with the pinks and dinks from the coins/xp. try the demo - you'll know if you like it or not.

The auto-aim is atrocious...it keeps targeting things that aren't even close to me in the opposite direction from the things trying to smash my face in...which when combined with the whole turret rotation mechanic makes the core gameplay loop more frustrating than fun. Also there's visibility issues with enemy projectiles(not the rainbow triangle obviously) where some of them look the same as yours and just blend in with all the noise.

A simple but fun bullet heaven. I enjoyed it for what it is, perfect for playing with a video/podcast playing in the background.