There's a lot to be said for story and how it enhances the actions of a game, but sometimes the justification for doing something is to do it. Even the story-lite games tend to have at least a scenario to explain the action, but there are games that look so good and play so well that even that little bit of exposition is completely unnecessary. Why is a yellow claw gliding along the rim of a purple web, or why do pieces made of four blocks fall from the sky? It doesn't matter in the slightest, because the games wouldn't be made even a little bit better with some kind of justification for the player to stop enemies advancing up the tubes or line up the blocks to fill in the well with no gaps. Granted, Rhythm Storm isn't Tempest/Tetris, but it's still a fantastic horde/survivors shooter that focuses on all the important details wrapped up in particle/vector visual overload.
Vectors Of the 80s With the PC Muscle Of Today
Rhythm Storm just released on Steam and is a huge amount of fun, the latest from the long-running developer Radiangames. While probably best known for Instruments of Destruction,...
