Review anarchistica 1/5 · Mar 16, 2018
Magic Find was bad enough in Diablo, we don't need it in shooters
Rating (out of 10)
★★
Overview
Icarus-X is a boring vertical scrolling shooter made for mobile phones.
Positive (good features)
✔ Rotating lasers are a nice idea.
Neutral (average/expected features)
♦ It runs at 4K in Windows 10.
Negative (bad features)
✖ Dreadful music. Especially compared to Matt Murphy's midi music for Raptor (1994!).
✖ Ugly, uninteresting visuals and design. …
Rating (out of 10)
★★
Overview
Icarus-X is a boring vertical scrolling shooter made for mobile phones.
Positive (good features)
✔ Rotating lasers are a nice idea.
Neutral (average/expected features)
♦ It runs at 4K in Windows 10.
Negative (bad features)
✖ Dreadful music. Especially compared to Matt Murphy's midi music for Raptor (1994!).
✖ Ugly, uninteresting visuals and design.
✖ Yawn-inducing gameplay.
✖ Tiny space to fly in.
✖ Starting a map takes ~10 seconds.
✖ Bosses appear ~10 seconds before you can actually damage them.
✖ They copied Magic Find, the worst element of Diablo.
✖ Skill that improve Magic Find.
✖ Items that give bonus XP.
✖ Skill that gives bonus XP.
✖ Noticable early jump in difficulty.
✖ Grinding. Lots of it.
Conclusion
A boring, ugly, uninspired mobile cashgrab made worse by grinding.
Details
⯍ Experience with genre: I've played a bunch of these, starting with Raptor: Call of the Shadows (1994).
⯍ Experience with game: Played it for a whole hour.
⯍ Recommended to: People who love vertical scrolling shooters but hate themselves/life.