Tesla Force Review (PlayStation 4)

With science as your superpower, charge up your coils, and zap into action! Tesla Force is a rogue-lite top-down shooter featuring endless procedural gameplay with tentacle splitting action. Play as Tesla, Curie, Lovecraft, and Shelley and blast the cosmic horror back into the galactic abyss!

Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 413MB download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• Cross-buy with a free upgrade to PlayStation 5.
• Camera view-normal, classic, and top-down.
• Can rebind controls, set auto-fire, and dead zone slider along with vibration-on/off.
• Twin-stick shooter gameplay.
• Comic book style cutscenes.
• Can skip cutscenes.
• Opening tutorial.
• Mech- collect the four pieces to make a powerful Mech that you can drop in and use.
• Two playable characters- Tesla and Marie Curie who have unique stats and abilities.
• Hub to buy and unlock new abilities and weapons.
• Roguelike elements such as progress are lost on death but you can collect currencies to unlock permanent items and abilities.
• Crystal’s and energy cells are currency and drop randomly in-game.
• New game plus support for more challenge every time you finish the game it gets harder.
• Unlock a third playable character-Mary Shelley and the fourth character…Lovecraft.
• Simple controls.
• The story has 3 chapters and every life the level select map will randomize the levels available and paths you can choose.
• Perks-everytime you finish a level you pick one of two random perks that stay for that life.
• On-screen markers and text pop-ups.
• Health drops from enemies as do new guns.
• Clock-as you finish levels and kill enemies this clock moves forward which makes the game harder by giving random buffs to the enemies.
• Can keep playing after finishing the level.
• Tons of replay value.
• Your health carries over to each level.
• Earn new items to show up in future games by playing and it counts it up after a run, kind of works like exp and leveling up.
• Four-player local co-op support.
• Big boss battles.
• New enemies come in overtime.
• Mech lasts X amount of time. (can be extended and upgraded)
• Fast loading times.
• Save and quit option.
• Kill combo.

Cons:

• Hard to see health as it’s a small number in the corner of the screen.
• Slight learning curve.
• Slowdown happens a lot.
• Slow-paced for unlocks.
• Variety is not the strongest part.
• Shooting is not always fun, the window of hitting enemies is small.
• No online Co-op.
• Can be hard to see Interactive points.
• Small text in-game.