--GAMEPLAY--
This is a top-down, twin-stick, shooter. You choose from 8 levels of difficulty in the form of different coloured belts then dive into as many 30-second levels as you wish. Adventure mode is a last-as-long-as-you-can romp. First off, the game throws you into a very tight arena-type room with little space for manoeuvre and challenges you to clear it in thirty seconds. You get an ominous siren after 20 seconds to signal that an indestructible nasty will soon arrive. The actual challenge from room to room rises well. One death ends the level (in Tally mode) making that 15 seconds delay to get back into the game seem VERY long.

--PRESENTATION & DESIGN--
Progress is displayed by showing which of the 89 rooms have been cleared and with which coloured belt. The game takes you to this screen every time you finish a room which is a great, at-a-glance progress system. The sound is ambient and tunnel-like. When entering a room you get that echoey industrial sound which adds a suitable edge to the game's atmosphere. Explosions and the deaths of enemies is satisfying especially those that require a number of hits to be dispatched. Rooms are lit with a Tron inspired neon-lighting theme.

--CONCLUSION--
Like most twin-stick shooters this is not a game you'd normally play for long stretches. However, for a fifteen or twenty minute blast it's a great pick-up-and-play game. There is a bit of back and forth screen hopping when changing difficulty but no biggie.

5/5


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Don't reference Nex Machina. Don't reference Nex Machina. Don't reference Nex Machina. People are tired of hearing you yap about that.

Mutant Storm: Reloaded feels like a prequal to my self-titled all-time best arcade twinstick schmup Nex Machina. What we have here is a bullet-hell game with a series of static single-screen levels. You start with three credits, and try to get as far as you can. The only powerups are a few different weapons and a score booster. The different weapons only last a few moments. The local co-op is cool, too.

At first bootup, this feels quite dated, but the fun is absolutely still there. What's cool about this one compared to Nex Machina is that 1) you can run it on a toaster, and 2) it's a fraction of the price. Sadly there are no leaderboards, which can go along way for an arcade shooter like this.

Pros:
+Regardless of how old this is, the fun is absolutely still there
+Simple to learn, difficult to master; very satisfying, too
+Any twin-stick fan should have this in their library
+Can run on a toaster

Cons:
-No leaderboards
-More modern versions of this have a bit more bells-and-whistles

For five bucks, any twin-stick fan will have a ton of fun.

Nice & Responsive Twin Stick Shooter! All the things I hated about Beat Hazard, have been removed, and only this game, w/ it's challenging yet addictive format remains! If you are a fan of the Twin Stick Shooter Genre, or Arena Genre, or want to play Beat Hazard w/o the nonesense of the strobe effects, then this is the game for you!

Disclaimer: There is none!

5/5 Stars

You can imagine how much of a free person in the world I am that I have played a game of 2012 that is pulled off the steam store for purchase and I played it for 12 hours . And that was not just it, I am reviewing the game which can no longer be purchased. Lol

I know this is not the right place to do such thing, But i had a terrible breakup last day. She just left with the message saying, you're poor and I am bored, so need a little change. bye. Well, everything is good now . I am fine. I am not stressed out. So, open for any talks in support of me. Being single and alone is so cool, again. Just as cool as this game is.

You can understand how much of an alone person I am that I played the game "Mutant storm: reloaded" for 12 hours that is being played by only 47 people on steam till date . Yeahhhhhhhh. Back to searching for unused paper cloth to wipe these droplets of water coming out of my eyes for no reason.

I remember looking at Mutant Storm when it first came out and being absolutely blown away by how it looked, how things moved in it. It was a genuine and very real inspiration for me thinking "one day, I want to do something like that" and well, I do now.

It wasn't just the game, it was that there was this really small team making arcade games at a point where it's generally accepted that the arcade is dead. Well, that's fairly good right?

And sure, looks wise even despite a couple of makeovers it looks sort of less inspirational now than it did in the early 2000's and we're in a post Geometry Wars world where everything subscribes to a similar sort of neon-particle explosion sort of thing and I like that, I really really like that but Mutant Storm looks like Mutant Storm and nothing else. It's clearly got Minter-spirations but it's very very "looks like a Pompom game" and that's the kind of thing we can all aspire to. Not necessarily looking like Pompom but making a game that's ours and unmistakably ours too.

The gameplay seems, now, rather tame considering. It's not easy but there's a rigidity to the waves and patterns that compared to a lot of what we see now is very much more considered. And that's fine, absolutely fine because it still remains a very good little game of shooting things. And what's a game like this if not about shooting things, right? Right.

So yeah, Mutant Storm. A classic and an inspiration to me. Still, after all these years. An essential, no doubt.

Old school shoot-em-up that keeps you coming back for just one more try. Just like the good ones always did.

Simple and clean twin-stick shooter with an elegant design that still satisfies.

Having spawned on the Xbox 360 some years ago gararge based indie developer POMPOM brings the colorful psychedelic and challenging twin stick shooter Mutant Storm Reloaded to the PC, Having difficulties mirroring martial arts belts from white to black this shooter is a terror at higher difficulty settings. Featuring 89 levels and two modes; Adventure and Tally. There's plenty of content and challenge that makes MSR a bargain for the introductory price and a must own for fans of a games like Robotron and Geometry Wars.

Very nice twin shooter. I like the "Arena" concept.

Probably the most underrated, overlooked, and in my view unfairly put down twin stick game of all time.

The visuals, an acquired taste to begin with, have not aged well but the game play is as pristine as when I first played this on the 360 more than fifteen years ago. You won't realise how good it is unless you put in the time and test your skills against its harder difficulties and stages.

I really can't recommend this enough to any twin stick fan.