![]() Then there are flying enemies which love nothing more than to approach from angles you can’t aim at. Walking enemies will constantly zoom towards you from either side with hardly any warning, and almost always take at least two hits to dispatch. Some games could make this work, I suppose, but Ultionus instead decides to be “hard as nails” in the nails-on-chalkboard agonizing way. Your character is slow, she can’t move while shooting, there are huge delays between her shots (which only get worse the longer you try to shoot at once), and she can only aim straight ahead and slightly up and ahead. The issue here is that because it exists as an homage to some ancient game I’ve never heard of, it controls worse than the Castlevania Adventure on the old GameBoy. You shuffle your top-heavy lass through rather open levels, dodging threats with her floaty jump and blasting enemies with her ray gun. Ultionus is primarily a side-scrolling platformer, though there are a few space shoot-em-up levels. We’ll get to the story later, because the gameplay needs to take center stage here. Ultionus definitely suffers from this sort of short-sighted design, and then goes and layers a bunch of other terrible ideas on top of it, like some kind of foul garbage lasagna. Honestly very few of them age well, and those that don’t are usually held back by designs or mechanics that should have remained in a bygone era. It sounds like it should be the opposite, except that classic games are often a product of their time. Has the advantage of not being officially endorsed, too.Making an homage to a classic game is often harder than coming up with something new, and I don’t think many people realize that. Might as well make a mod yourself and distribute, instead. Only real result is more work for the dev and possibly landing him in legal trouble or something.probably not worth it. I would love to see Larry kind of survey in begining of game, to profile age of gamer and enable adult mode with fully naked sprites if answers indicate a fully grown person XD Would be almost entirely pointless since it'd be glaringly obvious to anyone who even is old enough to have a libido in the first place. I would love to see Larry kind of survey in begining of game, to profile age of gamer and enable adult mode with fully naked sprites if answers indicate a fully grown person XD A_Rival - Wandering fits perfectly with this. I love how you drew her to be more realistic, definitely fits. Oh yeah, also the music and "box art" are absolutely AWESOME. You did a great job DarkFalzX, and I will gladly support your future projects, esp. So many awesome ideas, Ultionus must live on! :) Love that "look but don't tell" sort of humor, it's just there. The humor, awesome humor, especially the final boss and his "sensor" lol. Would love to see customization unlocks and things, the little extra things, skin changes, etc., to find or unlock, and new abilities to purchase, etc, ala megaman or metroid or games with upgrade systems that are more robust, would love to see more options for Serena S, though the ones in game, when I first found out she could be upgraded, totally blew me away!Īlso the quality of the art direction is perfect! The final level with the good ending especially blew me away, so epic! Like I was playing SNES in the old days when the internet just came out and there were no hint sites. When I first went through it without looking on google, it was so fun to find all the secrets. ![]() I love it, even the quickness of it, though I wish it was longer, it's still awesome. Originally posted by Shockaboom:Still playing it on and on. ![]()
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