Necromonads Reviews

One of the best game on earth. 10/10 -S0YxSauCe

[i]Edit: Online leaderboards have been added since I wrote this review, so that's one problem fixed. There are still several other changes that would need to be made before I would recommend this game to anybody.[/i] Good sound and music, but that's pretty much the only aspect I liked about Necromonads. A list of things I didn't like: - Scanlines cannot be removed. The screen curvature [i]can[/i] be removed, but only by darkening the overall image, which makes it look even worse. - No d-pad support on dual-analogue gamepads. Also, the game does not have "Full controller support" as it claims. You can pause the game using the start button, but the only way to unpause it is using the keyboard. - The game is locked at 60 FPS, which is fine, but there are frame-pacing issues that cause stutter when flying across the map. How much this bothers you will depend on how sensitive you are to stuttering (a fair amount, in my case). All those problems could be overlooked, but Necromonad's biggest problem is that it is way, way too easy. Compared to [url=https://youtu.be/GdUlS_cSMoE?t=39]Defender[/url], this game is baby food. The enemies are never any threat to you, unless you accidentally collide with them. There's only one enemy that even fires bullets at your ship, but those bullets move so slowly you can literally fly circles around them. There is no challenge whatsoever until at least level 15. And even after that, it becomes more tedious rather than difficult. You'll need to tap the fire button more and the stages will take longer to complete, but there is still no danger of actually losing. I reached level 20 on my first playthrough (which took about 40 minutes). By that point I had gathered 7 extra lives (up from 3 at the start), received a perfect score (no captures or infections) in all but one stage, and was so bored I ended up killing myself 8 times.

Simple defender clone with a zombie mechanic. Your fellow spacefriends at the bottom walk to some bunkers, if they get snacked by the evil spaceships coming from above they turn into zombies and spread the infection to adjacent fellow space friends. It is your job to not let that happen by shooting the baddies out of the sky. Later levels have some walls that prevent the lil guys getting to the bunker, unless you bomb these wall things with your secondary weapon. Theres some more enemy types I havent seen yet since it also has defender style difficulty. Delivers what it claims to, Defender style gameplay. Didn't encounter any bugs so far, had decent fun flying the lil spaceship around. I'd recommend it tho I have only played half an hour. Picked it up at a 40% discount.