Attack of the Karens Reviews

nice roguelite shmup.

Like most of your typical rogue-like game, Attack of the Karen, you start off struggling to progress through the levels and bosses due to the mini-flying ship you're operating being generally weak. But, eventually, as soon you earn enough currency you will be able to upgrade stuff like HP, bullet speed, bullet damage, shield recharge speed etc making it easier to take down most of the squishy enemies before you feel confident enough defeat to fight bosses you encountered thanks to all the upgrades you spent on. Before you start a run, the game will tell you in advance which boss you will fight and the levels you will have to fight through to get to them in a specific order, giving you some pre-time to plan out your moves and keeping each run different from the other. As this is a game poking fun at Karen of all sorts, there are some comedic moments, but it could have been done with more embracing memes by having more unique dialogues as it does get repetitive after a while they don't change through each encounter which is a shame. It is something this game could have done to keep the humour fresh and alive much like Supergiant had done with Hades and Hades 2. The other problem I found with this game is it can be difficult to tell where your ship is located, for example, the colour it has made it mute to the background, furthermore, the supporting items you gain that are visible around your ship can appear like enemies. Both of these issues make it hard to detect where you are on screen when there is a load of enemies around, causing problems where you get confused about who to shoot and which bullets you should evade. I was thinking the only way to solve this problem is by changing the main subject of the colour of the ship to purple but then I realised that some of the background colours are in purple so maybe changing the saturation to make the ship stand out more compared to all the enemies. Despite some of these odds design choices, I did have a decent time with it. Not a game I would put as a top priority to play. It's one of those games you would buy forget about it after a month or year, spot it in your library then end up playing it for hours and you wonder why you never played it any sooner. Attack of the Karens does what it set out to do. It is short and simple and isn't too overly long. At the end of the day pleasant playthrough to keep yourself engaged for a few hours.