Underling Uprising

Underling Uprising is a Cartoony, Beat-Em up, Arcade game. Play as a rejected experiment as you fight to get revenge on a scientist obsessed with creating perfection. Before I begin, I got this game for free from participating in the Kickstarter a couple years ago. I had also played this game to a certain point during the beta testing, So I will do my best to write a review covering the whole game this time around. First, The Story. It was good, nothing too crazy. Some of the stages in the game gave some good backstories to the characters and as to why they were locked away in the first place which added a nice touch to the game's overall story. The ending is also decent, but one part left me with some questions, but I will let it slide since it didn't really ruin anything for me. Continuing onto; Stages! There are a total of seven stages to complete in this game. Each with their own unique areas and varying enemy types that slowly get introduced as you progress through the game. Some stages also do provide some difficulty; with hazards to interfere in the middle of combat and a mini boss to keep you on your toes while making progress to the end of the stage. Once you do reach the end of the stage you be greeted by one of the seven unique boss fights that each stage will bring, their not too bad, but some can be rather annoying. I'll get into that in just a second. Enemies, Mini-Bosses, and Bosses. I figured I'd go into some detail about this now. The enemies in this game are okay, if I'm being honest. As you progress through the game you will generally be seeing the same enemy types a lot of the time for the whole game, which leaves a lot to be desired in terms of variety. Along with that some enemy types can leave you in some rather "Choke Hold" scenarios, where getting hit by one enemy will just seg-way to you just losing a whole health state because of not having any invincibility frames to save you from further punishment by enemies who can just hit you forever. It didn't happen often, but it was slightly annoying at times. Moving onto Mini bosses, they were alright for the most part, their unique and bring an interesting fight of course, but they did have some minor issues, for example: one boss could be defeated before he even spawned, all you had to do was guess where they'd be and hit them with a spamming Finisher and it would be over immediately. Along with that one, another mini-boss would just duplicate itself onto the other side of the arena after it had just been defeated for no reason at all and then it would vanish just as quickly as it spawned in. These weren't game breaking of course, but it did make for some weird moments for sure. Now for the Bosses, Just like the mini-bosses, I liked them, but I will say this without trying to spoil anything about the ending of this game, You will either love or hate the final boss, because let me just say this; remember when i said you didn't really have any invincibility to save yourself if you got hit a lot, well let's just say this boss was hoarding those invincibility frames and they will make you suffer for how long it takes to try and defeat them. Other than that, not too terrible, I still enjoyed the fights even with all the minor things. Moving to; The Characters! There are 4 characters to choose from (with 1 extra being locked until you reach a certain requirement). Each come with their own moves, special power, and sets of strength, speed, and range. They are unique, and have their own stories that are revealed as you progress through the stages of the game as stated before. (Except for the secret 5th character, their just there for fun i suppose.) Finished Arcade mode's Story? Then try your hand at Boss rush or the Survival game modes. In Boss rush; you will be put up against every boss in the game and you have to try and beat them all in one try. While in Survival mode; you will fight and try to survive as long as you can while aiming for new high scores each time. Honestly, these aren't terrible, since it gives you something else to try after completing the game, but it's more of a one time thing and that's about it. The Music in this game was also pretty good. I personally liked the Fifth stages music the most out of the whole thing. Having played the beta, and now finally finishing the game once and for all, I thought it was a decent time. Sure, it was a little bit buggy at times, but It didn't ruin the whole experience for me. Would I recommend this game to people or friends? Yes, I still would. Might not be for everyone, but still if you wanna give it try, go on ahead.