Blastful Review (PlayStation 4)
Blastful is a fast-paced arcade shoot-em-up in which you will enjoy crazy shooting action in procedurally generated retro-like visuals featuring cyberpunk flavored techno-beats.
Pros:
- Decent graphics.
- 332.4MB Download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- Works on Playstation 5.
- 3 difficulties-easy, normal and hard.
- Controller settings- snap aiming and use controller to aim.
- Shmup gameplay.
- Simple controls.
- Visual style changes from level to level and once unlocked you can choose the starting visuals from the menu.
- Boss fights.
- Colourful missile trails.
- Power-ups like shields and health can be collected.
- Brightness slider.
- Can just hold down the fire button.
- You can restart a level whenever you want and change the visual styles.
- Drum and bass soundtrack.
- Controller aiming allows you to aim with the right stick.
- Easy Platinum trophy.
- Trophies seem to be doled out over time rather for doing anything.
- Minimap.
Cons:
- Slow-paced.
- No actual tutorial.
- Small enemies make it hard to see and shoot.
- Repetitive.
- You can not shoot any enemies and do just the boss to finish the level.
- No leaderboards.
- No replay value.
- Only a handful of enemy types.
- Right stick movement is not good and is not accurate.
- Power-ups actually make the game way too easy.
