Slow, not very engaging

If the screenshots are to be believed, this game gets exciting in the later levels - but it couldnt hold my attention long enough. You start off with a ship that fires *automatically*, i.e. you just move the ship right and left and wait for the bullets to come out. Which they do... slowly. Then you upgrade your weapons, hoping for a little more oomph... but the upgraded weapons fire automatically as well. Its also not particularly hard, so I found my attention drifting quickly.

Theres some other gameplay issues as well. You have to sit through many screens of dialogue before getting to play each level - I thought the whole *appeal* of these old-school shooters was the ability to just get straight to playing. The enemies bullets tend to be the same color as they are, so its hard to see them coming; and when your ship takes damage theres little or no indication, so the first time I died I didnt even realize it had happened.

Lots of annoying little quirks like that make this games high rating questionable. Not recommended unless you really need to be distracted and have two bucks to burn.

happywaffle about Radiant