Every now and again, I come across a game that is truly stunning, putting me in a place of joy that I honestly didn’t expect. Sometimes this feeling comes from games that I may not even enjoy all that much or at least a game I find extreme fault in. Just Shapes & Beats was a game that I heard of often from my colleagues here at Marooners’ Rock but I didn’t realize how much I would adore this g...[Read More]
Ready to cancel an apocalypse? Developer Lazurite Games and publisher Deck13 sure hope so, as they’ve announced their new bullet-hell roguelike shooter To Hell with Hell today in Franfurt, Germany. Players will slip into the high-heels of Natasia, a stripper on her way to work when all hell breaks loose – literally.
Take a cast of characters culled from some of the all-time classic, old-school difficulty action games. Throw them into a vertically scrolling bullet hell. Make them progress by doing the one thing that’s totally counterintuitive in normal SHMUPS: run backwards. That’s the formula for I Hate Running Backwards, and it works shockingly well.