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You can also slow down time while charging your boomerang throw, and doing this while after air dashing means you get all sorts of suspended control over combat. You’ll use this move to reach new heights, avoid pitfalls, and battle hard-to-reach enemies. Eventually, defeating two or more enemies with a single throw will allow you to perform a zap attack immediately after, which takes out groups of enemies in your line of sight.īut the biggest move you’ll obtain in Boomerang X is probably the air dash - the reason being that air dashing not only helps with combat, but also with overall movement. You can charge your throw, which allows you to chuck that sucker much farther. As you move to new areas, you’ll unlock different abilities.
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Brief moments of respite lead to even tougher challenge rooms, and it isn’t long before the game gets pretty difficult.īoomerang X does a great job of keeping things interesting. You’ll use it to take down hordes of baddies in tight arena stages, all the while moving at a brisk pace. This boomerang is your sole means of survival. Instead, true to the game’s title, your boomerang is your trusty weapon of choice at all times. The main difference between this game and those shooters is that you don’t get crazy guns. Sometimes you’ll have to charge forward, but like a classic arena shooter, Boomerang X requires you to constantly be on the move. That’s how you end up getting hit by the soot spider-looking enemies and weird, floaty things. Of course, you can’t always run backward and hope for the best. You’ll enter tight spaces filled with waves of enemies, and you’ll have just enough room to run backward while you throw your sharp boomerang at them. That’s because Boomerang X is right in line with arena shooters like Sam Stone’s escapades and, to a degree, the Doom franchise.
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Though stylistically the game is like a trip back to the PS2 days, I can’t help but go back to my insane Serious Sam rambling when I think about the actual gameplay. Truth be told, Boomerang X would’ve fit right in with those games. These were games that were fun thanks to their mechanics, but were also just a bit off-kilter, tonally speaking. There was a grittiness to the PS2, and games like Twisted Metal Black, Sly Cooper, and War of the Monsters reveled in that grittiness. The reason I get PS2 vibes from Boomerang X is its offbeat style. But sometimes nostalgia clouds our judgment - by that I mean that Boomerang X, for as old-school as it may feel, doesn’t exactly go back to the late ‘90s, but rather the early 2000s.Īnd I have to say, it’s kind of nice to play a game that transports me back to that specific era. You know, the days when you couldn’t wait to get out of school and fire up the N64 and your favorite 3D platformer. With games like this, it’s easy to let nostalgia take over and warp us back to some fond after-school memories. Both games are published by Devolver Digital, though Boomerang X is developed by Dang! The two titles share colorful cel-shaded visuals, they’re both first-person action games, and they both remind me of games that would’ve appeared on the PS2.
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Serious Sam aside, Boomerang X also reminded me a little bit of Sludge Life, a graffiti platformer that was released on PC last year.
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I love the not-so-serious Serious Sam series, so Serious Sam flashbacks are seriously a good thing. First and foremost, it was giving me some serious Serious Sam flashbacks. Ranging from stuff like shotguns to more over the top alien weapons.Playing the upcoming Boomerang X, I was reminded of a few games I’ve played. The different weapons available do make things extra fun.
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If you are someone who likes more strategy in your shooters or more story then you may tire of the non-stop action that is going down here. Now, I love this kind of thing and this style of first-person shooter has been kind of pushed to the side in modern times. You will be mowing down hordes of aliens and having a great time doing it. It is a ton of fun and it is the kind of game that very rarely lets up. Instead what we have going on here is a game that is all about keeping your finger on the trigger and having cat-like reflexes. It is not what I would call a “thinking mans shooter”. The gameplay of this is very fast and frantic. Their designs are so gross, ugly, and weird that you do not mind too much. The aliens are some really ugly looking dudes and I love it! There is a lot of imagination here and while you do see the same enemies a lot. Serious Sam 3: BFE manages to keep things interesting by ensuring that the locations you are blowing aliens away in change fairly regularly. From the desert to a dark and dingy cave. One thing that I really do like about the game is the variety. This is a game that is not exactly a spring chicken, but it still has its charm in terms of the visuals.