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Astro tripper full5/26/2023 There's a time limit for each stage as well, just to keep you moving. Scoring, meanwhile, uses a simple cumulative multiplier that ranks up and offers bonus points for consistent destruction, but starts to decrease should you allow your onslaught to slow down. Periodically, power-ups appear and boost the size, strength and range of whichever weapon is selected. The blue laser attack offers focused power directly in front of you, while the red sweeping attack will hit broad swathes of enemies above and below your position, but does less damage. You have two attack options, swapped with the square button. On the harder difficulty levels, you can even fall over the side of the level, putting even more pressure on your nimble navigation skills. The circle button flips your craft over so you can fly swiftly in the other direction, or you can fly backwards if you want to fend off encroaching aliens as you retreat. The goal is simple: clear out all the enemies and you move to the next level. It's a solid and enjoyable PSN arcade experience but it never quite finds the hook, or achieves the sublime crescendo, that defines the best of its genre.įor reasons left wonderfully unexplained, your lone spaceship must zip to and fro across fourteen horizontally-scrolling stages. It's just difficult to get too excited about it. It's easy to like Astro Tripper, the latest frenetic shoot-'em-up from the makers of Live Arcade's Mutant Storm series.
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