Clid The Snail Review (PlayStation 5)

This Clid The Snail Review delves into this quirky top-down shooter about a grumpy, humanoid snail armed to the radula! Experience a dark fantasy fable and explore an unforgiving miniature world to exterminate the slug plague with an arsenal of badass weapons… and a unique set of snaily skills.

Clid The Snail Review Pros:

  • Decent graphics.
  • 6.50GB download size.
  • Platinum trophy.
  • Top-down Shmup gameplay.
  • Opening tutorial section.
  • Twin-stick shooter controls.
  • Dandelions will heal and save the game.
  • Stamina system for rolling and running.
  • Handy lock-on button.
  • You can shoot with each tap or hold shoot to charge the shot up.
  • Grenades can be thrown easily and use a hold down for distance control scheme.
  • In-game cutscenes.
  • Can skip cutscenes.
  • The game uses its own language.
  • Ralar Seeds are hidden Collectibles and earn you a bigger health bar after X amount.
  • Beautiful looking game.
  • Levels are quite large and do allow a fair bit of exploration.
  • Loot chests can be found.
  • Shells drop from chests and enemies.
  • Puzzle elements.
  • Breakable objects.
  • Shop to buy medkits and grenades.
  • Big boss battles.
  • Fast respawn time.
  • One life then it’s game over.
  • Levels and areas are all connected and you can freely move between them.
  • Shell power is generated from killing enemies and when triggered will cause a shield/special attack to happen.
  • Clever level design.
  • The game mixes it up with tower defense style set pieces.
  • Unlock new weapons and grenades.
  • Quick weapon/grenade swap or bring up a weapon wheel.

Clid The Snail Review Cons:

  • Only one control layout.
  • The view is very close.
  • Hard to see enemies and projectiles.
  • Chests just give gems.
  • Any shooting on the stairs or higher ground doesn’t seem to work.
  • Stamina is rather small.
  • Easy to miss things like the shop, if you don’t see a press X to speak prompt then you will struggle.
  • Controls are awkward.
  • No camera control.
  • Likes to obscure your view a lot.
  • No help with guidance or missions.

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Clid The Snail Review

Clid The Snail:

Official website.

Developer: Weird Beluga Studio S.L.

Publisher: Koch Media

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Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!

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