5.84 Wing Reviews

Worth it's price. The controls sure are quite hard but with enough time and energy you can get over it.

[h1]Little trap-dodger / shooter that's mostly a proof-of-concept[/h1] [b]Concept:[/b] Flying a tiny spaceship through cramped levels, you find keys to open the door to the next area while avoiding hitting traps and occasional enemies. You can endure a couple of hits but the third will kill you and restart the level. [i]5.84 Wing[/i] does not host a real story. Idea is simple: you can rotate quickly using pad or mouse (I used the latter) and only boost forward. Naturally, you retain momentum and get damaged by crashing too fast into walls. You also got a tiny turret, used to destroy certain walls and fight enemies and bosses. There's three boss fights, inspired by [i]video games of olde[/i], each of which has at least two attack patterns or behaviours. They take a lot of shooting before they die. Killing bosses also grants an upgrade for your main weapon. [h1]Some technicalities[/h1] Using keyboard and mouse, spacebar is the boost key and left-click shoots. Just to mention, there's no rebinding options, though I found the controls adequate. The control scheme itself needs a bit of getting used to. I encountered only one slight bug that when picking up the weapon upgrade the game slowed down for a sec: the upgrade should've been smooth. [h1]Conclusions: It's got potential[/h1] For a sub-$1 game (which even then I got on sale), it was alright: not great but not too bad either. The main story lasted about 30 minutes, and there's a wave survival mode for some shooty action. All in all, it was fine if a bit forgettable experience with no real replay value. I would like to see a bigger game using the same concept, perhaps even with more cramped levels and also some harder challenge levels. [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/9997062/]~Twistorian Curator~[/url]

Cool idea, but it's extremely hard for all the wrong reasons: -You control the direction of your ship *and* aim with the left thumbstick. At first it's tolerable but when you have multiple enemies coming your way its almost impossible to maneuver and shoot. -Main weapon shoots slow and does little damage. -Bosses take way too many hits to kill. -Taking damage hitting a wall too fast is irritating, especially only having 3 hearts in a level along with enemies and obstacles in a level means you die fast and restart levels over and over. If bosses and enemies took less hits, health increased to 5 hearts and the controls were adjusted it would be a much better game, but as it is now I can't recommend it. Refunded for now, but I may rebuy in the future.

Alright, I wont lie. It's a minimalist game, but it's still fun, it takes slightly under 2 hours to complete, i say definetly give it a try, the Dev seems like he deserves the support. Heres a Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_R1anMKCAg