Neverawake Review (Steam)
For this Neverawake Review, we go to a unique world with its high-quality hand-drawn graphics and beautiful animations. The enemies are not demons…but vegetables and dentists that the girl hates. Things and creatures that everyone has had a bad experience with at one time or another become monsters and attack the protagonist “Rem”.
Neverawake Review Pros:
- Decent graphics.
- Download size.
- Steam achievements.
- Full controller support.
- Graphics settings – resolution, fullscreen, and graphics quality preset.
- Optional opening tutorial.
- Twin stick shooter gameplay.
- Enemies come from all sides of the screen.
- Auto-aim option is available.
- Souls are what you collect to fill the level completion bar.
- Dash allows you to avoid taking damage.
- The special move has limited uses within a level.
- World map level select.
- Fast loading times.
- Even with auto-aim on you can still do the aiming manually.
- End of level breakdown.
- Big boss encounters.
- Projectiles fall into two camps – shoot them to eradicate or dash through them.
- Oversoul is an option at a game over where you can pay with souls and go back in with more firepower.
- Souls also act as currency.
- The result tab in the menu acts like a leaderboard of your scores and ranking.
- Accessories can be unlocked and equipped to add new buffs and abilities.
- Unlock and equip new special attacks.
- The auto scrolling of
- the level can change direction.
- Diary entries unlock as you play and give you more of the story.
- The levels get more intricate and add obstacles and environmental hazards.
- Loadout allows you to equip 3 accessories and one special attack weapon.
- Bite-sized levels.
- Very accessible and quick to pick up.
- Levels can have branching paths so it allows you to replay levels and skip harder levels.
- In-game cutscenes.
- Four controller layouts.
- Can skip cutscenes.
Neverawake Review Cons:
- Minimal graphic settings.
- Cannot rebind controls for both keyboard and the controller.
- Doesn’t have any online leaderboards.
- When you hit 100 percent on a level it just abruptly ends.
- The end of the level breakdown flies past and makes it hard to read.
- Constant difficulty spikes.
- Small playing area.
- The levels themselves are short but you keep looping round and round until you fill the bar.
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Neverawake:
Developer: Neotro Inc.
Publisher: PHOENIXX
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Summary
Neverawake is a nice little shooter, it has a great art style and uses a twin-stick shooter control scheme. You fight through your character’s Nightmares and collect souls so you can wake up and escape the nightmare. In reality, it’s a shooter where you collect souls to fill your bar and finish the level. Boss battles fill the screen and are more of a lesson in bullet dodging whilst residing in a bullet hell scenario. The play area is rather small and this makes it all much harder but also adds in a pinch of frustration as you just cannot see what’s happening or the mix of environmental hazards and enemies making it a right-ass kicker. Neverawake doesn’t really have a unique spin on anything instead focusing on making an accessible fun short bursts experience that players of any skill level can enjoy.