Diving into Look Mum No Computer feels like stepping into a neon-lit workshop where every wire hums with personality and every beat threatens to explode into full-blown chaos. This in-depth exploration of its synth-driven world reveals a twin-stick shooter that thrives on rhythm, rebellion, and handcrafted charm. From rogue appliances to modular mayhem, the game pulses with an energy that pulls you straight into its pixel-art pandemonium, daring you to craft, blast, and groove your way through Soldersworth’s electrifying turmoil.

Look Mum No Computer Review Pros

• Decent pixel art graphics. 
• 829.7MB download size. 
• Platinum trophy. 
• You get the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 5 versions of the game, so you can potentially earn two Platinum trophies. 
• You can remap the controls. 
• Video options – bloom effect, chromatic aberration effect sliders, port swirl animation (to reduce dizzy feeling), and shoot toggles. 
• Audio sliders for SFX and music volume sliders. 
• Game difficulty is set in a slider going from 0 to 100 per cent. 
• Speed run mode, which is optional, shows an on-screen timer. 
• Twin stick shooter gameplay. 
• Tutorial pop-ups as you play. 
• Cosmo is your talking backpack and faithful companion that gives tips, helps with missions, and talks with the many characters of the world. 
• The music is down to what you do, as this game allows you to create your own by installing modules you install in a synthesiser and how you tweak them. 
• The map fills in as you play, and you get clear mission markers and mission givers. 
• Find and activate fast travel portals, and hitting it again lets you choose any unlocked portals. 
• The story of the game and general flow is you go to locations in the real world, like libraries, arcades, shops, and even museums and talk with the owner and then go into the computer as it were and clear it out of enemies and kill the boss.
• You can play the game how you want and tackle locations in any order. 
• The workshop is where you craft new modules from schematics. It triggers a real video cutscene. 
• Modules come in two flavours – active and passive. You then assign each to the spot on your computer to enable them, and you unlock additional slots. 
• Depending on the modules attached depends on what abilities and shots you get, so you could have a machine gun, laser or little robots helping you. 
• Add or take away power to modules to regulate them, but also make them stronger. 
• Artefacts can be found all over the world, and these are used to get permanent upgrades like new module slots and more energy for modules. 
• Jobs are your missions, and you can manage them and collect optional side jobs for more rewards. 
• Weapons can overheat and then require a cool-down. 
• You can have multiple weapons installed and then swap between them. 
• Enemies always drop materials for crafting, and they respawn every time you leave a screen and return. 
• You can go back into areas even if you killed the boss and use your fast travel portals, great for materials farming. 
• The locations are fantastic and varied from dust-covered hell holes to computers to Pinball tables. Each location feels different and has its own challenges and little puzzles within it.
• Music making people (sounds right) will like the synthesiser and no turning in the game. 
• There are a lot of references, nods to classic games, and tropes from the industry. 
• It is a very charming game, full of atmosphere, and you do find yourself always wondering what’s next. 
• Health bar system, and then you get hearts as drops from enemies. 
• When you die, you go to the last portal you used. 
• The game does scratch an itch, and its layout does let you play how you want and almost customise your experience.

Look Mum No Computer Review Cons

• It is visually overstimulating, a lot is going on, the colours start to blend and make it hard to see enemies, drops, and everything else. If you are sensitive to things like this, you will struggle. 
• No accessible options like Colourblind, text size or font type. 
• The tutorials are just text-based and don’t always go into enough detail to make you feel confident. 
• I found the music to be more on the not great side than the good side, and I put it down to what modules I had, as I could never get the synthesiser to sound good. You don’t get a lot of help with it. 
• When you get hit, you get a over the top knock back and flashing, and it’s more what you would expect from a fatal hit than a simple hit. 
• Dropped items disappear fast. 

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Look Mum No Computer

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Developer: The Bitfather

Publisher: Headup

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