Playing this game again, I think I’ve realised why I always found it so annoying…
It may look and sound like a shoot ‘em up, but it plays like a puzzle game! The only way to shoot waves is to memorise the sequence of correct places to position yourself on screen, and to get there before the aliens start arriving. Fortunately there’s a nice long gap between waves to enable you to do this.
And why is the smart-bomb so pointless? Even if you hang back to the left side of the screen, you usually have to set it off before any of the aliens in the next wave have even arrived. And because you can’t save them up, to help you out in a tricky situation, the best possible thing it can do for you is to give you a different power-up instead.
Parallax
Playing this game again, I think I’ve realised why I always found it so annoying…
It may look and sound like a shoot ‘em up, but it plays like a puzzle game! The only way to shoot waves is to memorise the sequence of correct places to position yourself on screen, and to get there before the aliens start arriving. Fortunately there’s a nice long gap between waves to enable you to do this.
And why is the smart-bomb so pointless? Even if you hang back to the left side of the screen, you usually have to set it off before any of the aliens in the next wave have even arrived. And because you can’t save them up, to help you out in a tricky situation, the best possible thing it can do for you is to give you a different power-up instead.