With Cybertrash STATYX, I assumed I used to be getting one other retro-visual platformer with loads of impediment course motion and plenty of capturing the bad-guys. And I did get that. What I additionally received was not precisely what I had hoped for.
As our regulars already know, I’ve blended emotions about all of the video games for the Nintendo Swap which lean towards the retro, 8-bit graphics look. This sport does it pretty nicely, so it’s not less than not annoying. There’s ok use of kind, shade, and definition that it seems to be OK. Cybertrash STATYX is a 2D platformer, so it makes use of loads of timing-dependent jumps, runs, slides, and so on., to maintain your fingers shifting at a pleasantly frenetic tempo.
There’s a story available, however it’s nothing to jot down dwelling about. The audio goes together with the visuals—20 years old-fashioned, but it surely’s a tolerable package deal.
Cybertrash STATYX presents a tutorial with an attention-grabbing component. That can assist you learn to run, leap, slide, and so on., you begin the sport by following a pal who offers you recommendation (textual content bubbles) and let you know to attempt to sustain. It’s not essentially the most subtle tutorial, but it surely does a good job. Because you solely have a 2D world to discover, the sport depends on establishing some tortuous paths to navigate by utilizing the aforementioned working, sliding, and leaping. (Anyone received “dodge, duck, dip, dive, dodge” caught in your head but?)
You must leap on issues, execute a better leap for taller issues, slide to get below issues, run and pause at simply the precise second to not get shot by issues, and so forth. You get the compulsory capturing unhealthy guys and dealing your method as much as tackle the boss rounds, as you’ll count on.
By now, you might be saying, “Hey, David, that is all nicely and good, however the evaluation is sounding a bit lack-luster.” I’m afraid you might be appropriate in your evaluation. One thing bumped the desk on which this home of playing cards was constructed, and it’s the motion controls.
Every part appears completely regular at first. The left analog stick strikes you left and proper. To slip, pull the left stick down and press the B button.
With me to this point? As a result of now it will get attention-grabbing. To leap, press the B button (straightforward peasy); however to leap excessive, you will have to be shifting after which pull the left stick down, press B to slip then press ZL.
And that is the place issues fell aside for me. I assumed to myself that maybe I’m simply not comfy with this explicit mixture. Then I assumed to myself that of all of the platformers I’ve performed, that is about essentially the most awkward method to execute a excessive leap—or double-jump—I’ve ever used. Most different video games maintain it as straightforward as urgent the leap button twice, so I’m actually at a loss as to why this sport makes use of such an unnecessarily difficult method of doing one thing so vital to the gameplay. This successfully spoiled my expertise with the sport.
I actually needed to take pleasure in Cybertrash STATYX, but it surely didn’t work out that method. The sport looks like a stable “meh.” Should you suppose the motion mechanics will annoy you, there are many different comparable video games on the market, and it is best to in all probability discover a type of.