Rogue Blaster

The bullet heaven genre is an interesting one to me, because while usually some of the aiming and shooting is automated, there's tons of emphasis on movement, crowd control and finding the optimal weapon synergy to influence enemies around you. Rogue Blaster removes most of this by putting the player still, in an initially 180-degrees then a 360-degrees shooting gallery, reminiscent of certain VR games. This means...

4 found this helpful, 2023-01-29

Weapons have a singular evolution path. There is only one ~30 minute hand-made campaign. Hard made just increases the enemy health and randomizes enemy spawns. Enemies generally just walk at you with few exceptions. Items don't feel very fluid to use, having to throw them out blindly at times to be able to use them all as they rapidly spawn sometime with a very limited carrying capacity. None of the eight guns feel...

0 found this helpful, 2024-04-23