BugZy's Review: RFLEX - Geometry warfare!

[BugZy]

Wesley LaFerriere, the developer of RFLEX, has kindly given us some keys for their game for promotional purposes. The following is my opinion.

Enter the arcade world of RFLEX, where the only thing that will save your pentagonal character from ultimately colliding with what seem to be big black rectangles are the swift reflexes that you hope and pray to possess upon launching the game. Without them, you won’t last 10 seconds.

The game consists of a few basic elements, they are ‘dodge things,’ ‘don’t let things hit you’ and ‘move damn it, that thing is going to utterly destroy you.’ You use the arrow keys or a gamepad to move your pentagon out of the way of your lifeless enemies before they reach the end of their path, ending the round if they hit you.

When I started playing the game my first natural assumption was that the projectiles flew at my shape in a random order, but a few minutes in I realised that that was clearly not the case. There are patterns that you can predict in order to stand a chance at dodging your impending doom. It’s handy to know and has saved me several hundred times.

As you may predict based on what I have stated previously, the game is astonishingly challenging. After watching the trailer and maybe a few videos of gameplay, you may think ‘this looks pretty easy,’ but let me tell you, the game is a lot harder than it looks. There are five levels in RFLEX, they are Amusement, Challenge, Addiction, Lifestyle and Death Wish (the name scares me,) each with their own quirks and patterns and all very, very difficult.

If you would like to let everyone know you are amazing or are happy with telling the world you are terrible at the game, there are both global and friend leaderboards. Brag away!

The graphics are simple, just black on certain colours depending on what mode you have picked. Simple doesn’t mean bad though. Having the same colours every match makes it easy on the eyes as they aren’t constantly changing like in Super Hexagon (where you need the special glasses to prevent brain destroying migraines.)

You play the game to an awesome electronic soundtrack featuring ForeverBound, Valiant and RollingFacade. Oh and I couldn’t resist to mention that there is a drunk mode. It’s pretty self-explanatory and is a perfect simulation of being drunk whilst playing RFLEX.

Wesley is such a great guy that he has also added an epileptic friendly mode for those of you who suffer from photosensitive epilepsy and has stated that ‘if you are not satisfied with this option, and are unable to play this game, you are entitled to a refund.’

All in all, RFLEX is a great arcade game of dodge and if you have time to kill and a few dollars to spare, you should definitely check it out.

RFLEX has earned 9/10 wallabies.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/392020/

[Bind Brisken]

Well done

[Yoe]

Yey cool