Your character is slow, she can’t move while shooting, there are huge delays between her shots (which only get worse the longer you try to shoot at once), and she can only aim straight ahead and slightly up and ahead. The issue here is that because it exists as an homage to some ancient game I’ve never heard of, it controls worse than the Castlevania Adventure on the old GameBoy. You shuffle your top-heavy lass through rather open levels, dodging threats with her floaty jump and blasting enemies with her ray gun. Ultionus is primarily a side-scrolling platformer, though there are a few space shoot-em-up levels. We’ll get to the story later, because the gameplay needs to take center stage here. ![]() Ultionus definitely suffers from this sort of short-sighted design, and then goes and layers a bunch of other terrible ideas on top of it, like some kind of foul garbage lasagna. Honestly very few of them age well, and those that don’t are usually held back by designs or mechanics that should have remained in a bygone era. It sounds like it should be the opposite, except that classic games are often a product of their time. Stylistic Suck: Spacebook is portrayed as using an interface fit for computers of the 80's.Making an homage to a classic game is often harder than coming up with something new, and I don’t think many people realize that.If she saves Balzac all the way to the final stage, he'll give her a proper spacesuit, which includes the prompt "Dignity obtained". Stripperiffic: Serena wears what is essentially a space bikini.Stay in the Kitchen: The Prince trolls Serena by asking her what she's doing out of the kitchen.Spoof Aesop: The epilogue of the Golden Ending states that the moral of the story is that one day, trolls might just piss off someone who can totally wreck their shit.Getting him all the way to the end not only gets you a spacesuit, but also the Golden Ending. Robot Buddy: Balzac, Serena's robot sidekick who you can occasionally find trapped behind some sort of obstacle that you can help him out of.Beside the premise - Serena wants to punish a guy, not save him - most setpieces and enemies are remarkably faithful. Retraux: The game is a remake of a 1987 Spanish computer game called Phantis (also known as Game Over II).If you did, Serena kicks the Prince in the junk and is soon surrounded by his security force only for Balzac to rescue her via spaceship, and the two proceed to the final level, where they fight through the Prince's forces and finally the Prince himself in a Humongous Mecha.If you didn't, Serena kicks the Prince in the junk and is soon surrounded and apprehended by his security force.Multiple Endings: There are two endings depending on whether or not you managed to get Balzac all the way to the end of the game.Lethal Lava Land: The fourth stage of the game takes place in a cavern filled with lava. ![]()
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