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Космический стропальщик Оригинальная космическая стрелялка. СЮЖЕТ Отсутствует. ГЕЙМПЛЕЙ Игровой процесс представляет собой необычный взгляд на космические битвы. Наш герой может только кидать стропу, которой надо притягивать друг к другу всякое в космосе, желательно вражеские корабли с чем потяжелее и поопаснее. Основная идея игры действительно нова. Нам надо создать такие сети, чтоб враги в них запутывались и сталкивались, получая урон. Иногда из врагов падают дополнительные жизни и небольшие улучшения корабля. Рассмотрим плюсы и минусы игры, подведем итоги. ПЛЮСЫ: + Олдфажески приятная графика. + Хорошее музыкальное и звуковое сопровождение. + Оригинальная идея для сражений. ТО, ЧТО МОЖЕТ БЫТЬ КАК ПЛЮСОМ ТАК И МИНУСОМ: +- Враги и особенно боссы очень сильные. На мой взгляд - даже чересчур. Но возможно кому-то понравится. МИНУСЫ: - Очень мало информации об управлении в игре и представлена она плохо. Главное меню довольно замусорено этой информацией и в итоге её возможно даже не найдешь. В первый подход я, например, полностью не разобрался как играть, и уже отрицательный отзыв писал. Но решил еще разок попробовать и уже тогда вкурил тему. - Нас поливают ракетами и непромахивающимися снарядами, а наш корабль летит как черепаха. ВЫВОДЫ Если играть, то готовиться к боли. Проект не для широкого круга пользователей. За оригинальность идеи и за соответствие описанию ставлю положительную оценку. Если понравилось - жмите палец вверх и подпишитесь на куратора. Вступайте в группу RunnerStreams, у нас здесь обзоры, конкурсы, актуальная информация о скидках на годноту, раздачах и прочее. Видео геймплея (как не надо играть): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf4k_ybNoXM&ab_channel=LVVrunner Всем хороших игр!

Edit: Yeah, I'm solidly mixed on this game. The core mechanics feel excellent, but they're marred by what feel like a lot of questionable design decisions (or perhaps oversights?) in the name of difficulty or even aesthetics. There are 50 waves (you can think of them like levels) in the main gamemode. Every wave is similar each time with some variation. When you die, you HAVE to start from the beginning. There is no option to take a checkpoint at wave 40 if you died at wave 49. You just have to start from zero. I would have less issue with this if there was more variation in the waves, but there aren't. Go spend 10-30 waves blowing up baby ships again before you're allowed to attempt the hard stuff. There are frequently options to take random upgrades which can just totally ruin your run, depending on your current build. At any point in the run. You're a glass cannon? Here, have this upgrade which causes your thrusters to set you on fire if you use them too long. Aiming the harpoon is really *** finicky. Hitting small stuff in particular I will regularly have to try 2-3 times, which just doesn't feel very good regardless of the difficulty implications. The game has aim assist but it's only for fast-moving objects like missiles or drones, and I've turned it off because it messes me up more than it helps. Death/taking damage often feels cheap. Maybe I will change my opinion on this as I play more (which I will be, hence the thumbs up), but whenever I take damage (or lose a run) it's usually due to me losing track of the direction my ship is facing and completely cancelling out my velocity while I am in the middle of an enemy or missing harpoon shots because something is tiny and I've slightly mislead, and I NEED to tether to that something in order to not take damage, i.e. to clear a status effect. Mechanics feel like they disproportionately punish the player as the game goes on. I conceptually like that fire, acid and electricity can damage both you and your enemies, but *** man it's just annoying to have a battlefield littered with AoEs that will only ever touch me and never enemy ships, which will degrade half my shield in a handful of seconds. *** torpedoes, especially when there are 6 of them all flying at you simultaneously AND two mine layers in the same wave. Taking damage is just random at that point. Runs take hours. There are no time limits in this game and it's described as a "puzzle roguelike" for a reason. Ships are tanky. Tethers reel stuff in very slowly. Sometimes the best option in any given situation is to just wait for dangers to clear. It's just often hard to tell what is going on because everything is *** red or yellow. I really wish there was a "sacrifice style for visibility" option. The default screenshake and visual effect settings the game uses for feedback are also really overtuned, but at least there is an option to turn them down. This game technically has 7 input buttons (WASD, Left Click, RIght Click, Left Shift), and they start to feel overloaded after a while. I feel like this was a "design by subtraction" decision where fewer buttons are just inherently "better", but throwing the option in the game to bind certain active abilities to 1,2,3,4 would've been nice. I wish there was a "click to tether, release to untether" option for controls; as it stands, left clicking so much gets tiresome. There is one boss that you must kill with a specific ship to unlock the alternate variant of that ship. That boss has what feels like a 10-30% chance of actually spawning, per run, on wave 20. Why not just... Attach the unlocking of the alternate variant to wave 20? Or 25 if you really want players to earn it? Why is it randomized like that? Over all I'm really enjoying the game, just, these things are CONSTANTLY bothering me while I play it. I gave it a thumbs up for a reason, I just wish it was less doggedly punishing and difficult in ways that feel somewhat arbitrary and pointless.…

So.. I recently picked this game up again... I thought I was going to be just as horrible as I was at the game the first time I played.. but now I'm better at it?? Starting to unlock more things and more equipment (Songbird techno is amazing). Anyways.. I love the design of this game and while the controls might be a bit difficult to keep track, it still has fun & time killing gameplay!