All guns blazing.
With its monochrome, ultra-widescreen display, simplistic controls and signature crank, Playdate offers an interface which is quite unlike anything else on the market at present – and while that’s undoubtedly a positive, it means that the bright yellow handheld isn’t as well-suited to every genre of game as it perhaps could be.
That’s what makes Gun Trails such a pleasant surprise; this is a hardcore shmup inspired by the likes of Cave’s Mushihimesama and DoDonPachi, and it pushes the hardware to its absolute limit in a dazzling explosion of visuals and sound. It’s also insanely challenging, but more on that in a second.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
All guns blazing.
With its monochrome, ultra-widescreen display, simplistic controls and signature crank, Playdate offers an interface which is quite unlike anything else on the market at present – and while that’s undoubtedly a positive, it means that the bright yellow handheld isn’t as well-suited to every genre of game as it perhaps could be.
That’s what makes Gun Trails such a pleasant surprise; this is a hardcore shmup inspired by the likes of Cave’s Mushihimesama and DoDonPachi, and it pushes the hardware to its absolute limit in a dazzling explosion of visuals and sound. It’s also insanely challenging, but more on that in a second.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
