Android Hunter A Review (Steam)

A robotic uprising swarms the streets and it’s up to you, an advanced Android Hunter, to fight back. Inspired by beloved sidescrolling platformers of the past, Android Hunter A is a well-oiled machine of fast-paced action, smooth platforming, and deadly bosses.

Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 5873MB download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Controller support.
• Graphics-fullscreen, resolution, post-processing, texture quality, and visual effects.
• Can rebind controls.
• Action shooter platformer gameplay.
• Heavy Mega Man influence.
• Can wall jump, shoot, charge shoot, build up a special attack.
• Upbeat soundtrack.
• Enemies respawn and can drop health and charge for your specials.
• In-game cutscenes.
• Big boss fights.
• Checkpoints at boss fights.
• Eight levels.
• You pick which one to play each time as they are all unlocked.
• Base metal-currency and found in-game.
• Customise-buy and equip new items for visor/head/back and effects.
• Character stats screen.
• Online and offline leaderboards.
• Levels are timed.
• Fast loading speed.
• Levels can have multiple paths.
• Defeat bosses to get their powers and then equip them as you need them.
• Uses the Megaman slowdown animation when going through a boss door.
• Six lives before game over and continuing.
• Game over choices-continue, return to stage select, or return to the main menu.
• Gallery-shows off some cool art.

Cons:

• Wouldn’t save my resolution choice.
• The menu is very basic.
• Not sure if the controller can be Rebound as the game quits the menu.
• No tutorials or explanation of controls.
• The screen is full of color and explosions and the enemies blend in making it hard.
• Not the fastest restart times.
• Hard to see far in front of you which makes long jumps a pain.
• Bosses will repeat an unskippable dialogue exchange every life meanwhile the counter continues to count.
• Death restarts the level. Enemies respawn instantly upon them leaving your sight, they don’t turn around so you can just grind pickups and health.
• Boss fights are overly cheesy in tactics and the amount of damage you do to them.
• One difficulty option.
• Place yourself right and you can have the enemy show on the screen but not attack you.
• Bosses have erratic behavior and sometimes will be overly aggressive and other times will just stand there.
• No voicework.
• Infuriating controls as the crouch seems like it hates to work.
• The view is as such that knowing if a drop is death or a floor is a gamble each time and it’s a bitch to see alternate paths or ledges.
• A lot of one-hit deaths.
• Can’t quit out from the game back to the main menu.
• Outside of leaderboards, there is no replayability.
• Boss fights are just not fun or engaging.
• Wall jumping is not fluid or particularly great.