Besides the frustration of the aberration effect giving me a headache, I can't help but wonder why this boring game made any of the decisions that it did. The brief invulnerability while flashing (by the way, if you're sensitive to flashing lights, avoid this game) is a neat enough concept, but because all the enemy ships enter in brief periods of invulnerability it was old hat by the time the bosses used it. None of the textures are meaningfully distinct, and all seem to do the same thing. Why am I sitting around waiting for the ships to become vulnerable to damage? Why not just start the level with all the ships on screen?

The "nishikado motion" that came about in space invaders due to hardware limitations, but made it so engaging is replaced by erratic movement patterns that... are understandable, in an effort to restore some amount of difficulty, but as a result the natural ebb and flow of space invaders gameplay is just replaced by half-hearted dodging.

The game did this weird pseudo-full screen thing, where it appears as a borderless window, but as a result of needing to click to fire, I often accidentally clicked out of the window (why hide my mouse if I can accidentally leave the screen?

Oh, by the way: if the fire rate will be anemic even if mouse clicks are delivered with the speed of a freshly-caffeinated twelve-year-old, probably just stick autofire in there, yeah? Avoid lots of the troubles of the terrible gameplay window that I ran into, and I can't imagine it would change the difficulty all that much.

The varied missile patterns are nice, but given all the other problems, I would think a free browser game makes a better substitute for this. I managed to snag a free license during a 100% off deal, but if you didn't I can't recommend buying.

A very enjoyable little "shoot them up" with its 8-bit music, very entertaining and very short (26 min for me) for those nostalgic for old games from the 70s-80s.

I got this for on a temporary free-to-own "sale" This took me 24 minutes to complete so at least it's free and short. I got more than one achievement a minute so the best thing this game is for is achievement hunting. I suppose you can showcase the achievements to spell something out.

I wouldn't buy this for 50 cents. Honestly you can just buy it, get all the achievements, and refund it as it'll still be in the 2 hour return period. This game is TOO easy, and boring. The lives carry over between rounds. I think that's because if you started each round with full lives you wouldn't die once. They didn't even tell the player you have a secondary weapon with the right mouse button??