Shoot 1UP DX Review (PlayStation 4)

Instead of stowing each 1UP, you collect, each new ship becomes playable immediately, resulting in an ever-growing armada of destruction! With your home world ruined, lead your detached battalion’s charge by destroying the mechanical-tentacle hybrid attack forces responsible for your pain.

Pros:

• Decent pixel art graphics.
• 210.1MB download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• Works on Playstation 5.
• How to play section.
• Can rebind controls.
• Auto shoot-on/off.
• Shmup gameplay.
• Show warning arrows-on/off.
• Online leaderboards.
• Two modes-main game and special mode.
• 3 difficulties-chilled, normal and serious.
• The special mode-one ship, increase stats and can save progress.
• Two ships-one initially then unlock a second.
• Two-player local co-op support.
• Game speed option-25-200 percent.
• Gimmick-you controls a set of ships at once and can expand and contract them at will, contract all the way to be a single ship.
• Pick up and control more ships as you play.
• Game world-you gets to choose your route as a fork will appear in the world.
• The score is done by picking up score icons.
• 1ups a plenty. Each one up spawns a new ship so you can amass a huge arsenal and it changes the formation when you expand.
• Big boss battles.
• Combo counter.
• Collect timed power-ups.
• Special mode (Trek) options-goof off (more 1 ups) and turn-based mode (pauses until you input your controls/moves).
• Trek-you play as one ship and build up your stats like a shield and shot power, dying resets your stats, finishing the game, and looping around will increase the game difficulty.
• Bullet hell Shmup action.
• Trek mode plays more like a roguelike Shmup.

Cons:

• Hard to see which achievements you have.
• Hangs when viewing the leaderboard.
• No difference from the Nintendo Switch version.
• The points as pickups don’t always work as you can get the kills but not the points pickup.
• The learning curve with how the expand/contract works in general gameplay.
• The playing area is quite small.
• A short game so if you are a one-and-done kinda gamer it won’t take long, maybe 20 mins on easy.