Every stage is designed with twisting routes that all funnel to the same end, but depending on the route that you choose, player can trigger the opportunity of finding a key that will allow them upgrade themselves either offensively or defensively-because you can’t have both. Once the galactic huntress lands, she’ll start off with nothing but the ability to jump along with earning a meager blaster shot not too long after, and players will be given the choice of how they choose to advance Serena from there. Serena’s 2D adventure does a great job of not only demanding skill but also rewarding it if players decide to lay all of their chips on the table. How about the game though like the fundamental core of gameplay and its supporting mechanics? Well, imagine it like the “Dark Souls” of side-scrolling run ‘n gun shooters for without the unnerving difficulty curve. It’s the kind of plot that would fit right in with Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken, with all of the same biting yet offensive kind of humor you’d come to expect with rather effective results. Players take command of Serena, a sultry space heroine jettisoning through space after another successful mission of saving the galaxy relishing in her victory on Spacebook (I can’t make this stuff up y’all) her online celebration is ruined by the misogynist trolling of the evil Space prince, so naturally, she’s off to discipline some sense into him.
The narrative carrying this deliberate presentation is equally ridiculous in terms of balancing out moments of tongue-in-cheek fan service conveyed through sincerest of details that range anywhere from humble nods to ostensible allusions that will entertain beyond Ultionus’ nineties soaked roots. The subtleties of raster resolution that accurately homage the pixel detail of action coin-op arcades of the nineties to the scan-line effects that render them on screen, the skips between frames and animation genuinely sell this deceptive notion that the title was an overlooked beauty of the past. The screen effects do an excellent job of emulating the effects of the past tech without all of the flaws that normally came with them. The second the boot up screen appears, Ultionus delivers on all of the smallest details beyond simple aesthetic to carry the sort of impression it intends to give, and the attention is remarkable. The idea of modernizing traditional dynamics in line with criteria that caters to current generation of gamers and still manage to appease the vets is still a daunting task, but where Last Dimension succeeds with the right amount of pacing and how it’s packaged. Last Dimension steps in with Ultionus: A Tale of Petty Revenge as their answer and while it may not appeal to everyone in both of those groups, it’s the best one I’ve seen yet to come close to being that answer.
The question is how could both sides of this coin be faithfully represented for both the purist, and masochist? Sure, titles like Super Meat Boy have written the love letter to the demanding skill and frustration of video games, but generally most of these messages romanticize all of the aspects of pleasure that deride from the teeth grinding challenge of video games, and never any of the horse shit that comes along with it. The awesome Luke 'A_Rival' Esquivel has provided the trailer track.Ould you remember a time when games were hard? Sure, the 8-bit era or even the onset of the 16-bit generation would fit the bill, but I’m talking difficult here, like “Hey mom can you give me another dollar’s worth of quarters” hard aren’t too many you may who care to remember those moments now is there. The music of Ultionus has been masterfully crafted by the legendary Jake 'Virt' Kaufman, and is a massive chiptune overload. If you miss the lighthearted sense of adventure, the over-the-top characters and the tough challenge in games - this might be the right game for you. Or a cassette tape.įrom retina-burningly colorful graphics, to Serena's cartoonishly ridiculous boobs, to a nonsensical plot - Ultionus is a love-letter to the whole era in gaming and media in general. Games that could fit ten times over onto a single HD floppy disk. The game is heavily inspired by the home computer arcade games of old, such as Phantis, Halloween Harry, Jill of the Jungle and Astro Marine Corps. Guide Serena through 7 stages of shmup action, jumping, shooting, and yet decidedly more jumping and shooting to her ultimate goal of total testicular annihilation of her foe. This is obviously a cause to embark on an epic quest to punish the troll in question, who just happens to be The Space Prince. Galactic hero Serena S has been trolled on Spacebook.
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