Cycle 28

It's awesome, so simple but so fun. The game play is fast and addictive. Its satisfying to play and it leaves me wanting to play more. Brilliant soundtrack too! You'll be saying "Just one more round" so many times! I love this game, and the developers!

Great little space shooter, really smooth and comfortable to control.

If this game is under $1.00/free, it is worth buying for an hour or two of fun. This is a pretty cool retro, top-down, bullet-hell type game. At least it's fun for the first hour and a half. Then, once I reached a best cycle score of 3102, I found it excruciatingly difficult to get anywhere close to that score again. There are some game-play mechanics that are just so unfair to the player. -The top-down view gives you minimal view as to what is in front of you, so you often run right into a ship / swarm of ships. This wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that -There is no ability to slow down at all. Shooting slows you down slightly however it's too insignificant to be useful. -The turning of the ship is on an acceleration, which means it turns slowly at first, then at full speed. -Overall, the controls are simple, but feel very sluggish and slippery, which, granted, makes sense in space. However, in this game, it just makes it frustrating to play and causes way more deaths than it should. -The upgrades I managed to get hardly changed anything. The only one that is important (and should probably just be default) is the multi shot upgrade, which upgrades your forward shooting power. -Some enemies have a very large amount of health, which wouldn't be so bad if either a) you could slow down and have better control over your ship or b) you could do more damage or have faster healing -Overall, by the time the timer hits 14:00:00, I'm getting overwhelmed with a ton of enemies, big and small; a bullet hell environment where I can't move around effectively; and a general feeling that getting past 2600 again will be very difficult. All this would probably be fine if there was more reward. Right now the only reward you get are tidbits of the story (which show up every now and then, regardless of progress), and upgrades (which show up every time you break your own record). Maybe if the upgrades were worth something or if the controls weren't so sluggish, I'd be okay with just having tidbits of story as the [b]only[/b] meaningful reward in this game. If you're curious, the story comes in pieces that you have to put together in your mind to understand. You get a new piece of the story every now and then, however it is not the greatest story telling. Quite frankly the overwhelming amount of frustration and repetitiveness I feel from this game vastly over-weighed the entertainment after 2.3 hours. Do I recommend you play it while it's under $1? Absolutely, its got a simplistic and retro feeling art style to it, and a unique set of game mechanics.