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Decent Side Scroller

I saw this on the front page of the game's section and assumed that it would be a top notch game, but I was soon disappointed. The game play runs smoothly enough (despite all the talk of bugs), but the art works suffers and that's what ultimately brought the score down to where it is. The background is a blah shade of teal with only the harsh black tones of the ships for contrast. The ship lacks definition and for a while I couldn't figure out exactly what it was supposed to look like until I figured out the slightly different color on the dot was supposed to be a windshield. The upgrade feature on the other hand was one of the best things in the game as it only took a simple key stroke while in battle to level up my skill set. All in all it's a decent side scroller and one of the best I've played all day. Score: 5/10

Not exactly hard, but some spots are sloppy...

Which makes the gameplay troublesome rather than difficult.

I enjoy the simple gameplay, I really do, but the levels themselves have poor structure. What I can tell, is that your enemy waves are completely randomized for their spawn points, which is not the way even retro shooters worked. Enemies should be generated on timelines. The enemies' patterns themselves are simple and memorable, which is fine. Regarding the upgrade loss, the mechanic itself is fine, but if your upgrade levels are too low, it becomes near impossible to play the game beyond Chapter 3, and this is what past reviews are likely gunning at in whining about the death downgrades.

While this is by no means a bullet hell game, it would do you well to play Touhou and learn why the game plays as well as it does. I will point out though that red bullets on a red background is huge no-no for visual cues. It makes it bad for shooter players to track all of the bullets on the screen, and heavily impacts reaction time. Second, enemy bullets should be visible over the player's. I should not be dying by something that I literally cannot see.

My last quip comes from the final level. You have traps laid throughout the terrain that leave it to dumb luck to avoid and work through. Now, this too is alright if there was some way for a seasoned player to escape the traps before it was too late. Additionally, continuing and having to replay an entire stage makes a lot of sense to me with the exception of your final level where you need to battle the final boss multiple times. You really should allow players to continue where they left off as opposed to forcing a replay of the whole level - especially when one hit from anything will end your game if you start the chapter with 1 life.

After getting to part two of the level repeatedly, but dying due to walls or walls, rocks, and enemy barrages, and then being forced to replay the whole level killed the entertainment for me. Now, I doubt you're going to alter any of these things in your game, but I do hope this sheds some light on the minor negativity you're getting in your reviews and why your game is a very good but not great.

I look forward to your next endeavor.

Not polished enough

A very interesting concept, but it's let down buy a lack of balance. Yes, you could say that you balance out things yourself via the upgrade system, but that shouldn't be the case. Fire rate and speed in retrospect are completely unbalanced, regardless of the upgrade options.

Ehh...

Funny but too hard, in chapter 4 you die instant, on normal difficulty, i just can´t see where I am because whatever the nanobeast is shooting is bigger than itself.
And the upgrade system sucks.

So if you like it very challenging, Nanobeast is the perfect game for you.
Otherwise you won´t like it, but try it by yourself.