Cybertrash STATYX Review (PlayStation 4)

Cybertrash STATYX Review, a 2D action platformer with elements of a tactical. Destroy enemies, gain experience points, upgrade your character, and immerse yourself in the story through in-game dialogues. Move deep into the levels, eliminating numerous ordinary robots, powerful cyborgs, killer machines, and bosses. Use the tactical element of firefights, the environment, and the abilities of the character. You will be accompanied by light and heavy types of weapons with different statistics and principles of action.

Cybertrash STATYX Review Pros:

  • Nice pixel art graphics.
  • 350.9MB download size.
  • Platinum trophy.
  • Works on Playstation 5.
  • 2D action-platformer gameplay.
  • Opening tutorial level.
  • In-game cutscenes and character interactions.
  • Three difficulties – Easy, normal, and hard.
  • Directional shooting.
  • You can do big jumps by sliding and then jumping.
  • Button prompts show on the screen.
  • Uses a health bar and shield system.
  • Hack chests to get loot.
  • You can carry and hotswap between light and heavy weapons.
  • Destructible elements within the levels.
  • Uses a lot of cover-based shooting.
  • Can see enemy health bars and if they are alerted.
  • Checkpoints are every time you enter a new room and this acts as your respawn point.
  • Break boxes to get credits.
  • Pick up health and shield bubbles.
  • Earn exp and level up to get points to upgrade your stats – agility, shooting, luck, mining, and hacking back in the hub between stages and sometimes within a level.
  • The jumping and shooting are fine.
  • Stages are quite open with a lot of choices for how and where you go in it.
  • Weapons have X amount of ammo and when it’s all gone you drop the weapon.
  • You can see your level-up bar and current rank.
  • Clear easy to read ui.
  • Big boss battles and you see their health.
  • Buy ammo and health/shields with your credits.
  • You can go forward and backward on a level.
  • The camera can be panned around just enough so you can see enemies and platforms.
  • Easy Platinum trophy.

Cybertrash STATYX Review Cons:

  • No voice work just loads of text.
  • Can’t set conversations to auto-scroll.
  • A real slow starter.
  • Cannot remap controls.
  • It’s hard not to take damage from every encounter.
  • The controls for sliding and Jump make simple tasks trickier.
  • The slide jump sections in platforming are tedious.
  • The pacing is all over the place.
  • When you are in the hub area it’s just slow text-based story segments and you can only walk.
  • You never really know what weapon you picked up.
  • Levels all seem to be in the same format and it’s very repetitive.
  • A lot of guns you use can kill you.
  • Boss fights are very underwhelming.
  • Hard to make out enemy bombs.

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Cybertrash STATYX:

Official website.

Developer: Uncle Frost Team

Publisher: Sometimes You Games

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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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