Vitality Girl II:Fire is yet another construction kit template copy+paste from serial shovelware pushers, 小小游戏工作室. These guys do nothing but copy premade game templates and game tutorials, fill out a few things/stamp out basic levels using the construction kit templates, slap on an asset flipped set of sprites/assets, and dump them on Steam and into DailyIndieGame bundles as cash grabs. Trying to get paid for someone else's game templates, assets... at best, this is shovelware, at worst, it's a scam/cash grab.

This time they ripped off a template for a basic side scrolling platformer shooter of very poor quality, and dumped a bunch of sprites (probably stolen from somewhere else) on it. There's no serious value or merit as a game for gamers here.

小小游戏工作室 (directly and through their various alt accounts they use to try hide their identity and mislead gamers) have shown a repeat pattern of unethically dumping other people's work onto Steam as a cheap, nasty cash grab. Here's some examples so you can see for yourself:

• "Beach-Restaurant" = Fast Food Restaurant & Cooking Starter Kit[assetstore.unity.com] developed by Finalboss
  
• "Finger Soccer" = Finger Soccer Game Kit[assetstore.unity.com] developed by Finalboss
  
• "Hammer 2 Reloaded" = Full Game Kit - Hammer 2[assetstore.unity.com] developed by XForm Games
  
• "Helix Jump" = Endless Helix Jumper[assetstore.unity.com] developed by High Level
  
• "Look Find Find" = Hidden Object Template[assetstore.unity.com] developed by Golden Eternity Studio
  
• "Pocket Tank" = Tanks Tutorial[learn.unity.com] developed by Unity Technologies
  
• "Slicing Slicing" = Object/Ball Slicing Example Game[assetstore.unity.com] developed by Half Burnt Biscuits
  
• "X-Racer" = X-Racer[assetstore.unity.com] developed by Deer Cat

Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics.

The game features simple, cartoony 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect to see in low effort mobile apps. 3D graphics programming does require a degree of skill and competence and unfortunately not all developers have the budget or talent to deliver this, despite 3D graphics cards hitting the mainstream in the 1990's. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing.

The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers.

These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

Vitality Girl II:Fire has the farcical price of around $4 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the unethical nature of the developer. Remember that if you buy a game from an unethical developer, you're putting your money at risk.