Good Robot PC Review by BoxCatHero of We Touch Games
Genre: Action, Indie, RPG
Developer: Pyrodactyl Publisher: Pyrodactyl
Release Date: Apr 5, 2016
From Pyrodactyl, the same people who brought you Will Fight For Food and Unrest, comes Good Robot. Now from first look you might think that the game comes from the same people who did Electronic Super Joy, and this could not be further from the truth. I mean, sure it looks similar to said title, but that is where the comparison ends. Good Robot is a procedurally generated roguelike shoot-em up set in 2031 where humans can no longer live on the earth’s surface. Luckily PyroCorp provided a future for the human race by building underground cities with a multitude of robots. This was an amazing idea right… Well as all good things go with robots, something has to go horribly wrong and someone dies.
This time it was all of the humans! How dare our robot overlords do this to us! Luckily there is one robot that PyroCorp has placed all its hopes in that has remained good. Now you must murder all of your robot brethren and stop them, using items provided to you by PyroCorp, at a cost of course. Luckily you can play the game with keyboard and mouse or controller, and there advantages and disadvantages to both. With KBM it is much easier to move and aim/shoot, but you can’t fire your secondary weapon off as much as you can with the controller. With the controller it’s really hard to aim. As far as graphics and audio goes both were amazingly done and sync together really well. Unfortunately as far as music goes, it is really loud for headphone users when it first loads. I had to turn it down to ~15% before it was bearable for me.
As you start a game, or an area, there is a machine that provides a choice of hats. What’s interesting about this is the first one is always free per game and prevents 1 instance of damage at the cost of the hat. At end of an area there are one of two different machines. One is a weapons store and the other is a stat upgrade machine. Also at the end of areas there are 2 – 3 gates that you can use to go to the next area, each with different symbols. I won’t spoil what each one does, mainly because I haven’t figured them out fully, but it’s part of the fun of a game to figure these things out.
At times, gameplay gets a little hectic, becoming very much a bullet hell, but then again most roguelikes nowadays usually are. You have a primary and a secondary weapon and they come in several different forms. Primary weapons can be a trash cannon or even a sub machine gun. Secondary weapons can be even more fun because they can be explosives, and who doesn’t love explosions, right? In both of the shops at the end of areas you can also find one off things, like a scanner to show where enemies are on parts of the screen you can’t see or even a one time resurrection. It’s all good fun, the game is amazing for the price of $9.99 on steam and has decent replayability, especially if you’re an achievement hunter.
Pros:
- Explosions!!!
- Excellent KBM controls
- Replayability
- Did I forget to mention explosions?
Cons:
- Horrible game controller scheme
- Music takes tweaking for headphone users
BoxCatHero gives Good Robot a Drastik Measure 8.0 out of 10.0 (80)
For Great Justice,
CatBoxHero
The cat with a box that brings Vigilante justice to video games.
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