#atomic heist

Atomic Heist is a challenging blend of 2D shoot-em-up action and roguelike dungeon crawling in which you infiltrate procedurally generated space stations to prevent them from building a doomsday device.

Atomic Heist

I enjoyed this one.  Atomic Heist is a twin-stick shooter roguelike where you control a ship trying to escape from a space station after stealing its radioactive weapon core.  The shooting is more tactical than frantic as you try to avoid (or use) bombs around the station, environmental traps, nuclear blazes and of course a bunch of different enemy spacecraft shootin' away at you down the randomly generated station corridors.  Time isn't on your side since your payload is slowly destroying your ship and you have limited ammo but power-ups abound.  Bright fun arcade colors and graphics and it controlled fine using a controller but keyboard+mouse was more of a challenge.  You only get one life and I could never get mine past the third stage.

Nintendo Download for 9/12/19

Because I’m obviously not busy enough, it’s time for another Nintendo Download! This week has some really interesting and diverse games to share, as well some new events and the usual digital fun. Of special note is that a mech based game is right around the corner, and there’s even some new DLC for the latest Fire Emblem. But let’s get started with the featured titles first.

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