Mothership Forever

Awesome gem with game breaking bug that causes the mothership to consistently warp away. By the time I get to it, the game over gravity gun it has is ready and zaps me. The other game modes are locked behind finishing the main mode that has this game breaking bug. Posting about this on the forum has yielded no replies in the approx. 6 weeks since I posted as of today. This suck because the bug notwithstanding, this game is a real gem!

I originally gave a negative review because of a gamebreaking bug, but patch 1.10 has (mostly) fixed it: more on that later. This game is basically a spiritual successor to Warning Forever: you're a tiny spaceship, you're fighting a big spaceship, and every time you kill the big spaceship it comes back bigger, stronger, and with some adaptations to defeat your strategy. The idea is solid, the execution is decent, and as a result the game is fun: there are, however, a few problems. First of all, Warning Forever did it better: you had VERY limited space, so you were forced to stay dangerously close to the enemy's weapons, and as the enemy grew bigger your room for maneuvers became smaller and smaller. Here, you can always kite the enemy from a safe-ish range, and as it gets bigger and slower to turn it becomes really easy to run laps around it and stay outside its firing arcs. Second, the game goes on for too long: Warning Forever escalated quickly and often killed you before you could even see all types of weapon the enemy could field, here you'll run out of new stuff 10 minutes into the 30 minutes main story. Third, the enemy "adapts" in really weird and exploitable ways: the last 20 minutes of the main story seem to mostly end up with big enemies carrying almost exclusively missile launchers, an incredibly exploitable weapon since you can outrun them easily and make it so they crash into the enemy. And what happens when you kill the enemy with its own missiles? It "adapts" by bringing even more missiles, eventually getting so big it will hit itself with its own missiles every time it fires, you won't even have to fire a shot and it'll kill itself just fine. Fourth, the physics bug: the reason behind my original negative review, this bug results in the enemy ship spazzing out and flying off-screen at ludicrous speeds. Back then, this was a very common bug that resulted in a game over as you were unable to catch up with the enemy within the time limit. Now, the bug is less common and the enemy ship usually self-destructs pretty quickly when the bug happens, so it's not that big of a problem. Overall, the game is fun but it could be much better.