Fly through the sky! Rain down fire on the enemy forces from above! Enjoy solid combat and simple non-linear exploration in this high flying side-scrolling action shooter!
Astro Port is love.
Astro Port is life.
If you'd like an actual review, Rocketron combines the shootiness of Megaman with steady upgrading and map exploration of the Metroidvania genre. Ingenious weapon design that doesn't penalize you with limited ammo, but punishes you to repair weapons when damaged. Devs implemented clever use of a rocket's thrust...
Wish there was "sideways" thumb for this one. It's not a BAD game, but the 90% approval rating it currently has paints far too rosy a picture for my liking.
Lets get one thing out of the way, I paid $2.39 for Rocketron on sale, and I do feel like I got my money's worth. However, I also feel like my time would've been better spent playing other games.
Lets...
Astroport continues to give a very small number of gamers exactly what they want.
kind of a bullet hell metroidvania, fun but frustrating sometimes, your rocket booster adds a lot to gameplay and the weapons system is interesting in that they take damage as you get hit, get hit too much with a weapon equiped and it will go into a damaged state, collect life to make it work again, kind of interesting, and makes you use different weapons,...
Solid Metroidvania Lite where you run around with a Jet Engine. Its a bit light on content (and I think some of the textboxes are borked, specifically nearly all of the ones triggered by events after you get jumped in Area 4) but that's fine! Whats there is pretty solid and it works very well as an action game with some light metroid elements.
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