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Reviews for Cosmic Shock Absorber (#1085)

Review by WhenIWasCruel on 30 Sep 2016 (Rating: 1)

by Beechnut (Chris Fayers)

Another unbelievable piece of junk - I mean, software. Or did I mean, junkware? First of all, don't select the cursor keys, because you'll have the right at the left of the left or vice versa, and it will add to the sheer chaos that the game already is. But even if you choose the normal keyboard option, the keys layout won't be of much help, because the horizontal movement keys are arranged vertically. But, what about the game? Well, it's supposed to be a vector graphics cockpit shoot'em up, but you can't see much because the playing area is almost constantly flashing, and you don't even understand if your keys are working nor where exactly you're shooting because there's no cross hair, and so you face waves of alien spacecrafts without knowing if you're destroying them by fire or by constantly crashing against them, which is the most probable cause, because soon your spaceship will show damage, a letter will appear in an icon, and if you're fast enough to push the relative key, you'll make it to the repair sequence, in which an intact circuit is shown for three seconds, and then you have fifty seconds to mend the broken one, making it appear as you saw it in those first three seconds. Lots of strange drugs at the Martech Games headquarters around this time, I can't see other plausible explanations.
1,5/5

It should have been clear by the loading screen what I was going into.