Review: Jamestown+ (Steam)
Set sail for 17th-century British Colonial Mars in Jamestown+: a cooperative shoot-em-up for 1-4 brave souls, designed to be exciting for players of all skill levels.
Pros:
- Chunky Pixel art graphics.
- 273mb download size.
- Steam achievements.
- Controller support.
- Shmup gameplay.
- Graphics-pixel perfect/proportional stretch/crazy stretch, widescreen, full screen and retro style.
- Tutorial video.
- Online leaderboards.
- 2-4 player local co-op support.
- Five difficulties-normal/difficult/legendary/divine/judgement.
- Build your ship-select ship type and gunshot type and you unlock new ones.
- Can rebind controls.
- Difficult.
- End of level score breakdown.
- Glorious animated backdrops in the levels.
- Earn coins for the shop.
- Shop-buy new ships, challenges, and shot types.
- World map level select.
- Bullet hell elements.
- Fun to play.
- Satisfying combat.
- Scores pop up as you kill enemies.
- Plays really well.
- Huge boss fights.
Cons:
- The ship is mute of sounds.
- Difficult.
- Slight learning curve.
- It takes a while to get gold.
- No colorblind support.
- No online co-op.
- Hard to distinguish bullets as the enemy can have the same color bullets as you.