Review: Jet Lancer (Steam)

Jet Lancer is a high-velocity aerial combat shooter where you duel enemy aviators, hunt giant robots, and defy death at supersonic speeds as you evolve from an unknown rookie aviator into a once-in-a-generation ACE pilot.

Pros:

• Beautiful modern pixel art graphics.
• 254mb Download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Shoot em up gameplay.
• Can rebind controls.
• Controller support.
• Graphics-fullscreen, v-sync, effects, and HD scaling.
• Accessibility(some are blatant cheats) invincibility, evade window, minigun toggle, thrusters, afterburner, strobe effects, and UI.
• New game plus game mode.
• Level selection is done via a carrier you drive around the sea and select levels.
• Load out-special weapons, charge weapons, and installed modules.
• Different mission types like kill all enemies or take on waves of enemies, take down ships or escorts allies.
• Boss battles.
• Retro atmosphere and presentation.
• Has a Luftrausers vibe to it.
• Amazing blood-pumping soundtrack.
• So much fun to play.

Cons:

• The initial learning curve with the controls.
• Missions do repeat themselves.
• Short levels.
• Difficulty spikes with the boss fights.
• No leaderboards.