Minishoot' Adventures

Classic Zelda, but instead of an Elven TwLink you're a ship, and the combat part is completely redone in shmup style. And yes, you read that right: you [i]are[/i] a ship. Ships in this world are essentially people, they're called Shiplings and communicate using beep boop sounds, "body" language (such as spinning or shaking) and popping hearts. It's insanely adorable and is probably my favourite part of the game. ...is what I'd like to say, but that's not quite right. See, the game is actually good. A joy to play, even; mixing the delightful exploration of a nicely sized world with fun twin-stick combat that's playfully challenging without pissing you off. And it has this... worldview. Like... in fiction, cute, happy things are either signifiers of total emotional infancy, or are only there to be corrupted and destroyed to signify [strike]also emotional infancy[/strike] edginess or something. But what if we could have a world that does have unironic cuteness and love, while also not shying away from the fact that evil exists and can corrupt and destroy the cute and good. And that's why we must fight, to preserve what remains. So that the cute and happy can exist. Yeah, this is something that will either resonate with you - and move you - or it won't. To me it was really a cherry on top of an otherwise fun game and injects some emotion into the late game. And just as well, because the mid game is perhaps a little, uh, mid. There is a moment when it's a little hard to figure out what to do - there is a map and the map always tells you where's the next dungeon, but sometimes it's hard to actually get there. Or the enemies on the way seem too strong. Or this, or that, or there is too many things to get discracted by on the way but it turns out you can't go there yet... Yeah, that's my only real criticism. And the races, they can get annoying at times, but there's only so many of them and they're doable. The rest is really fun, even if you're not that much into shmups. 60% of players beat the final boss, which is a very high number for a 10h game. I still have some post game fun to do, so I'll probably play more every now and then - it's really just that much fun to be Minishoot and pew pew pew the baddies! [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42922988/]Curator page[/url]

A truly fantastic game! A mix of Zelda and a bullet hell shooter. It's a real shame this game was never released on consoles. 10/10 Ein richtig tolles Spiel! Eine Mischung aus Zelda und einem Bullet Hell Shooter. Wirklich ein Jammer, dass dieses Spiel nie auf Konsolen veröffentlicht wurde. 10/10

This game is a very wonderful and enjoyable twinstick shooter structured like a top-down zelda game, you explore, you solve puzzles, you fight corrupted monsters and you get stronger which allows you to tackle greater and greater challenges, combine that with very satisfying top down controls and you have just an absolute treat to play! To top it all off, even if the story is unassuming at first glance it is very good for delivering the game message in the ending. which is one of my favorite game endings of all time, I don't want to say much about it because spoilers obviously. I just think that this game is wonderful and you should check it out.