#last command

i got super back into last command this week if you like undertale's bullet hell shenanigans id recommend giving it a go

I made a post last summer about this game, which has since come out not only on Steam, but also the Switch. I finally got around to playing through it, and I gotta say, it's really cool, and I hope bringing it up again will get more people to check it out.

Gameplay-wise, it's a combination of Snake and a bullet hell shooter, but the further in you get the more evident it becomes that it's primarily drawing inspiration from Undertale, especially when it starts color-coding how to interact with enemy projectiles. It was a really fresh idea and one that I was very happy to sink my teeth into, especially since it provided a hearty challenge even on the standard difficulty. The stuff in-between those fights is pretty bland, but with even a basic level of competence you can blaze through it real quickly to get back to the good stuff.

Story-wise, it's endearingly hackish. Like, it's very transparent where the creator took whole chunks of this game's story from, but I think it's charming, especially since it uses those elements to build to a different message.