Alessandro Mazzega
Mixing the structure of a MOBA with the gameplay of a Twin-Stick Shooter Armature Studios delivers an unusual and interesting arcade. There are some balancing problems but Dead Star is the best way to approach the Battle Arena scene, especially for console gamers.
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It is surprising that, so many years after the birth of 2D platformers, we can still design a title that bases at least half of its charisma on level design, especially without upsetting the fundamental canons of a long-lived and probably immortal genre. Shovel Knight shows that studying the past can be the first step in reinterpreting the great classics in a modern way, even going so far as to lap the quality of the milestones of game design.
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The choice to propose the exact same title on smartphones, tablets and PCs is welcome for those who own Microsoft's mobile devices but makes it difficult to judge in an absolute way a title such as Halo Spartan Assault. If on mobile it is quite complicated to find such a well-groomed twin stick shooter, with a hint of texture all in all adequate and the game mechanics gnawed but well adapted to the controls via touch screen; on PC the market has already offered much better in the past, such as titles like Renegade Ops that have been able to age such a classic genre, pushing the accelerator on the graphic impact and spectacularity.
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Bastion is able to hide a traditional gameplay, although properly developed, with visual and contour solutions of great impact but that, after a few hours of play, are no longer able to amaze, leaving the player at the mercy of situations too similar and slightly repetitive sections, which are fully pictured only in the final section, true return to respectable quality peaks. It is a title that stands halfway between the tastes of console players, more inclined to action, and the classic ones of PC users, always looking for titles with deep role-playing elements, representing a good experience for both, without however revolutionizing or scoring new goals.
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