The sci-fi genre at worst can sometimes degenerate into space invader clones, and impossible bullet hell shooters that feel like their graphics are on steroids. Sometimes you just want to party, upgrade your ship and protect what is yours! Or what is this farmers? If you are looking for a lot of personality, jokes and a deep love of what science fiction can be, this is the game for you!
Your job is to upgrade your "space-man" guns to protect the "sherbet" from the greedy aliens. You'll encounter killer tomatoes, stealing bee's, pirate ships, and hookah smoking, ring of smoke blowing, carpet riding psychedelic dweebs. And more.
Let's talk about the game!
Graphics:
The graphics have been updated quite a bit as of "Moonshine Edition," meaning that you should probably go pick up a copy and tell your friends. We've noticed a nice particle engine and a lot of pretty bright graphics, as well as a well drawn charcter who tells very funny jokes. The bonus is that between rounds you have an easy to navigate series of menus which allow you to upgrade your ship, or choose your level, in an open world sort of way. All of this is well presented in a very black, spacey, way.
Gameplay:
As has been noted, you can upgrade your spaceman. What this means is that all the guns, all of which have funny names, such as iconic-blunderbust, can be bought or upgraded between or after any round. If you are getting stuck, going back and getting perfect scores on the normal levels can mean a max of 2-4-6 moonshines. If these moonshines are exhausted, don't hesitate to jump into infinite mode for a few rounds to get the upgrades you require. I think I noticed about 20 levels or so to explore. They get progressively more difficult, so be prepared to go back and farm the early levels if you are not an expert already. The guns themselves are another matter all together, they are not only well named, but they fire in ways that you've probably never seen or heard of before. Deploying gravity and upgrading your weapons mid game is an important part of the juggling act this game becomes. Yes, you have to upgrade your weapon mid battle! Besides upgrading your guns base ability, they'll become more powerful during the battle as you pick up power ups, maxing out for short bursts of time where you are an absolute menace to the baddies! Needless to say, this can all leave you breathless and spent before long, so be prepared to use the save features and come back later if you don't feel you have the stanima to do the whole game. I'd say you could spend approx 2 hrs on this game, and for 80 ms points, that's about as much as you can expect these days.
Verdict:
4.5/5
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