Review by Stack on 02 Feb 2015 (Rating: 2)
I thought this might be an undiscovered gem. Defender meets Scramble with big Wheelie style caverns to explore, I hoped that this was just too flickery and jerky to get good reviews but might be fun for anyone who can put up with that, as I can.
But its pretty shoddy, with no real flowing feeling of flying, its all about fitting through impossible bottlenecks again and again whilst the scenery kills your shields. Keeping shielded is next to impossible in truth, and sometimes you actually have to fly right through earth or brickwork to get to where you want. The RZX recording, together with spectacularly poor ending, uses a poke of some sort to boost shields.
Mike Follin's good intro music aside, this is a game that looks bad and plays badly too.
It's a fast variation on the Defender theme, in which the people you must save are miners, and the game mainly plays in an underground environment, with very narrow passages, and elements that require perfect timing to be avoided. Each time you manage to save all the miners [I've never done it yet], you proceed to the next level, deeper in the ground, until you reach the I don't remember what and destroying it you free all the miners from slavery and whatever. So, as anticipated, is quite difficult, but it's got that famous one-more-go factor, somehow. Graphics are ok, although your sprite is flickering, and the flying aliens very tiny and colour clashy. I'm getting very slowly better at it. I still can't avoid certain obstacles. I'll trust they humanly overcomable and give the game a
3/5
