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It's what you wanted SimCity 2013 to be

Fun coffee break game. Reminds me a bit of Desktop Dungeons, sort of a puzzle roguelike.

Great rogue-lite with gameplay akin to spy hunter but with a hefty dose of upgrade meta-gaming. Wonderfully chunky cartoon graphics and solid mechanics will keep you coming back for more.

I wanted to like Pixel Boy, I enjoy roguelikes and this game has all the right ingredients to make for a compelling game, unfortunately it fails to deliver in a lot of ways.

The graphics are basic, they have tried to make something of the lo-fi RGB theme but in reality it just looks like exactly what it is: low poly everything masked with too much bloom and an unimaginative colour pallette. The gameplay is basic top down action fare, the controls are fairly well implemented but the moment to moment gameplay of moving and shooting is simply not that satisfying. Bullets waft out of your character and slowly float towards their target, enemies wander around in basic patterns often getting stuck in doorways and getting obscured by the scenery.

The roguelike elements also fall short. Levels are randomly generated but in the most simplistic manner possible, essentially a grid of identical square rooms with the occasional corridor or removed walls. The enemies are picked from a pool at the start of the round, and while they are fairly varied there are never any great surprises. The customisation systems feel unecessarily micromanagey and don't afford any real variety. In short you aren't going to feel like you're getting much of a different experience when replaying the game, arguably the most important feature of roguelike games.

Good points: the music is excellent, the narration is humorous and well voiced.

NYAAAAAAAR, VRRROOOOOOOM, NNNYYYAAAR NYAR SCREEEEEECH, vrum vrum vrum NNYYAAAAAAAR SQUEEEALL VRRRRRROOOOM. PAK-9 TAKES POLE POSITION AND THE CROWN GOES WILD *RAPTUROUS APPLAUSE*

The pinnacle of arcade racing

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