Round Invaders (PlayStation 4|5)

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Round Invaders (PlayStation 4|5)

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TRASHFALL FINAL III: THE THIRD IDIOCY (PART XIX)
AROUND THE WORLD, AROUND THE WORLD...




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Looks like Lea knows what's gonna happen today.

Time to descend to the shmup purgatory, cross the borderline between good and trash. To review another trash shooter. This time is Round Invaders.



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Attack of the Killer Donuts.

Round Invaders is a vertical shooter where you are confined to move around the planet, pretty much like the Fantasy Zone spin-off Galactic Protector, making it act like a "Tower Defense" type of shmup where you have limited ammunition for your planetary defense mission. The game works like this. Your score is your ammunition and your life bar. Although you have special weapons like the cannon bullets which can be fired without losing points, your standard shots drop points, and if your score hits zero then you'll die. That's right, losing all your bullets is fatal and without items to replenish the ammo stock, the only way to regain bullets is by killing enemies. With this learned, you must be precise to kill an enemy without failing more than once. With a shmup concept like this you've might expect a few weapons, but no, you're stucked with your limited pea-shooter until the game becomes unbearable and you're finally outnumbered and lose the game. And, believe it or not, that's all what I can say about the gameplay because there's nothing else in this game beyond that.



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Well, you've died before the action began...

If it getting killed by an enemy or losing all your ammo being the same as losing a life, the game adds "Zero Tolerance" towards the player 'cos the bastard only gives you one life. Also, it doesn't give you the option of Continue or Quit, the game decides that for you sending your sorry existence back to the game immediately. What a trash game punishment turned out to be.



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Graphics done by the Smiley Faces Kindergarten computer classroom.

In both graphics and sound, the game itself is a joke as we have these crappy aliens and UFO's that look like dog frisbees trying to kill you. Throughout all the time spent on this game, you'll be in this starless black void of space that makes the game as boring as it is. Also, there's no music or an array of sound effects, just your crappy shots and a single explosion sound. Even Space Invaders had more sounds than this.


ROUND CURIOSITIES
- This game spawned the spin-offs Round Invaders Rush and Round Invaders Rush 2.




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Thanks Nina
We really need to go back after facing this shit.


While being a little better than Breakthrough Gaming's monstrosities, there's still no redeeming values for Round Invaders. But that's one of the consequences of making games for a buck and for the sake of a dozen cheap trophies.



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