Success on higher difficulties only comes through splitting your focus and entering a mental zone where you stop thinking and let muscle memory and instinct take over.Įverything is built around maximizing your score and competing against yourself and your friends on various challenges. With complex level geometries, and enemies moving along multiple contrapuntal lines, players must constantly be aware of both where they’re shooting and where they’re moving. Sometimes these levels feel like they’re over in mere seconds before blasting you off to the next on a long line of stage layouts and enemy configurations. Unlike the previous game, Nex Machina plays from a top-down perspective in rapid-fire, ground-based levels.
Like Resogun, Nex Machina has players navigating increasingly crowded bullet-hell arenas, blasting robotic enemies while simultaneously rescuing humans from destruction. But by borrowing many of the elements that made Resogun so rewarding and evolving the twin-stick experience, Nex Machina becomes a modern arcade masterpiece.
The studio’s most impressive implementation of that strategy until now had been its last game, Resogun. The developer achieves a level of exactitude and seamless flow that comes only through constant design iteration, careful balance, and edge-of-your-seat gameplay that demands palm-sweating precision. Housemarque is regularly lauded for its arcade sensibilities.
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