misterhaan
  • RoboBlitz

    3 hours playtime

    no achievements

roboblitz feels old. it uses an old version of physx (actually asked me to install it even though i install the latest physx with my video card driver) and the physics are noticeably strange. still, i had fun collecting upgradium and getting everything working again. until i got to the third round in each area, where there’s an almost zelda-style boss fight. not only do i find those fights tedious, but they’re buggy to the point of not actually working the way the hints tell you it should . . . unless you use a different program to limit the framerate to 60. there are 6 areas you need to visit 3 times each, and i did each area once before coming back for round 2 and then 3, which put all the boss battles in sequence. i think it would have been more palatable (and maybe the designer’s intent) to play all 3 for an area before moving on to the next.

while roboblitz might have made sense back when it was new, i definitely don’t recommend buying it today. i finished it in two 2-hour sittings though, so if you have it in your backlog it’s an easy one to move to completed, as long as you’re comfortable limiting the framerate so you can actually fight the bosses.