Sector YAMA Reviews

Oof. There's the basis for a solid game here, but as is I cannot recommend it. I played 3 runs in about 20 minutes, so take my opinions accordingly. Maybe there's amazing stuff further on, but I won't know unless there are some major changes. When you start the game, there's no tutorial or any kind of onboarding, you're just thrown into the gameplay. Stuff starts exploding and I had no idea why or what was going on. I went ahead messing around with controls and whatever, couldn't tell what was happening, and wasn't until I went into the controls settings and saw that to fire you stop moving. It's not intuititve, I don't know why the dev wouldn't tell you this, but once you know that the game does become a lot easier to play. Anyway, once you know what you're doing, you go around and destroy aliens and their nests by getting close to them and stopping. I think the basic idea is to pick them off without activating too big a mob which can overrun you. There are a couple of little side missions, and you can recruit some more dudes to make your army bigger, but not all dudes. The gameplay isn't terrible. I like the idea of making your army bigger and bigger, but I think the game itself isn't replayable enough to stick with it. Everything on the map is pre-designed. The map itself, where enemies are and their numbers, where power-ups and new recruits are, the side missions, etc. This strikes me as heavily problematic because every run is exactly the same. You could try slightly different tactics, but there's no real variation. Maybe the power-ups are random, but I only found two in my playtime. The power-ups I did find were bland AF. Extra health and something similar, maybe extra damage. Nothing that hinted towards any kinds of crazy builds or anything. Anyway, even with these complaints I may have gone another few runs, but there are long cut scenes at the beginning of the game. There is technically a fast forward button, but it doesn't actually skip the scenes, it just slightly increases the speed of them, and you still need to click repeatedly and it takes too long. I'm not clicking through a fourth time for mediocre gameplay. On the plus side, the cutscene dialogue did make me giggle. I think it might have been written by a 14 year-old who is swearing without limits for the first time. The AI voice acting is atrocious, but the makes it kind of funnier. Even though I don't want to watch them four times in 20 minutes, they're kind of the highlight of the game. I'll keep watching for updates to see if anything happens, but as it is now, I wouldn't tell anyone to pay money for this, even with the current deep discount to $1.49.