For what it is, this game is SOLID and deserves a good score. Super addictive! For those who love to upgrade, switch between dozens of characters, and experiment with weapons while blasting away at hordes, you'll dig it. Got it yesterday for a few bucks, played till dawn, woke up and played for over a dozen hours while watching sports (and I'll prolly play again tomorrow for many more hours). Really good game!
This is a great title for how I often game: I’m squeezing in sessions for a half hour or so when the significant other and I take a break from TV, or maybe during prolonged commercials or halftime breaks in sports, etc. Listening to a podcast or an audiobook while banging the ball around is also relaxing and, unlike most games, you can concentrate on your preferred audio. I’ll go months without playing, then find myself obsessing for a week or two to get a good score or an achievement and it’s really the only game I return to year after year. There’s accurate recreations of classic pinball tables and nifty, digitally created tables with various popular themes from comics, tv, movies, etc. that they’re still adding to after all these years. Start with the free table to see if it’s your thang then get more tables as desired.
Very fun twin-stick shooter with lots of variety in enemies, bosses, and weapons. Smooth and colorful. Extremely easy to re-do (or restart) a level with a new character/weapon to try to “ace” a level or simply beat a friend’s score. Nice game and one the best I’ve ever played in the genre.
Played my friend's while dog-sitting for a couple of hours . Not bad. Can't wait for the next time he goes out of town and I get to the story's end to find out that my sister is a lesbian or my brother has transitioned to an Albanian vegetarian.
If you like the idea Gears of War with a Japanese flair, you'll like this. Dashing and flipping about, "bullet time," and plenty of various-sized enemies to blast apart. Fun, accessible achievements to boot.
For all you geniuses that didn't wait for user reviews, spent $60, played and completed a 25-30+ hour game, and then gave it a 0/10 review, I have a question: do you always air your bad judgement, poor time-management, and ignorance publicly?
I give this game a "0" or a "10" - cuz I haven't actually played it, but I wanted to act like some of you dingbats that apparently pre-order incredibly expensive titles and then either say it's damn-near perfect or the worst piece of trash EVAH! For those that rate everything "10": you do a real disservice to those of us looking for non-skewed reviews. For those who rate titles "0": you make yourselves look dimwitted and mega-immature for blowing your money and wasting hours upon hours of your life on something that apparently shouldn't qualify as a video game. I especially love the "zeros who give zeros" to games they played to the end, and LOL at those of you who play something TWICE to bad-mouth it on different settings. Anyone who admits to pre-ordering, coughing up $60, and then blowing hours of your life on a "0" game when there's, like, fifty-gajillion decent games out there should keep their embarrassment to themselves and maybe read a book or take a walk.
