Tag: SIDESCROLLER

Plasma Burst is a platformer that thinks it's an FPS. On the one hand, you get traditional side-scrolling action, but on the other hand, everything else feels like an FPS. You play a guy "sent back in time to save the world" (back-story is always the strong side for games like this). You stroll through levels full of baddies and basically shoot them up. By default, you have a laser-like gun, but ...

Ok, I filed this under "fun," but once you give it a shot you might disagree with me. I Wanna Be The Guy may be the most frustrating, hair-pulling game you ever play. As the developer states on one of his Zazzle shirts, it's "The game where everything kills you. Even the moon." Within the first couple of minutes, I'd died more times than I cared to count, and that's the point. My poor keyboard ...