CODE SHIFTER

This was pretty fun, it could be better but a good game, so let me start with the good, it has a nice variety of characters to use albeit 8-bit but that's really the main charm of the game and why people would and should buy it, each character has their signature moves as well as specials as well as environmental uses on top of that in which they cleverly make it so you have to use multiple different characters and let's you get a feel for them and their weaknesses and strengths and as an added bonus they get their theme tunes in 8-bit which is awesome, the story is a little silly while not being silly, enough to be both interesting and yet fun, like the art style in the hub world and for the main character in game gave me Disney vibes which just made it a pleasant kind of fun dood. Okay the bad, let's see enemy collision damage and positioning is annoying, some characters attacks force you forward even without holding the directional pad giving the enemy some free hits at times, even worse when an enemy spawns on top of you as it's quite literally unavoidable and seeing as that's a big thing for score it's a pain, you can mitigate that in some ways granted but it still feels like you've been robbed of an S rank at times because of it, next is the characters, although they play and work well as I mentioned they move forward on some attacks, some are rather large and although the damage is nice leaves them super vulnerable and easy to damage from multiple enemies and their movement is...slidey which is annoying for jumping in small gaps which the game asks you to do, a looot x.x then there is the issue of losing those characters as you can store 2-3 if you wish which is really nice but not when a heavy enemy hit from a big enemy or boss literally knocks it out of you or falling in a pit even which because of their slidey nature happens a lot too dood. Music for characters cut out during area fights as I'll call them which is a shame because traversing the world outside of gimmicks is easier as the protag who just gets the stage music which just ends up being a shame and a waste of good music and as a final issue which may be a non issue honestly it could be me but there are times jumping just doesn't work, hopefully if it's an issue with many others the devs look into it dood. To finish some improvements I feel could be made, a character only mode, now granted they have a "Battle" mode which is a semi Super smash bros 4 player fight against three other characters but that's not really the meat of the game and it suffers from weird super armour or it seemed like it for the other characters which kinda made it meh to play but it would be nice to take the limiter off after you beat the game and just run through a level using a set of three characters you want to use, next the option to turn off the fight music so you can just run through listening to the players 8-bit track and finally just taking out that silly oh hey you lost your characters because you got hit, like that's just baaaad dood. Still overall I give the game a big thumbs up, it just proves to me that a sidescroller using the proper models and moves for those characters would just make for an amazing game which I hope they do one day, it's fun times dood. ^-^