Sunday, May 16, 2010

Air Fortress and it's awesomeness

I discovered this game while messing around with the Game 'n' Music card I have for my DS. I was just picking random titles to try out (which a few ended up being Japanese titles that made no sense since I can't read it ) . I had heard of this game, of course, but had never seen it or played it. So I tried it out and loved it. It's a fairly simple game, but also a pain.
When you're outside riding your ship or whatever you want to call it, you only have one hit and your dead. You can't touch ANYTHING. The ground, the floating rocks, enemies, nothing. You can collect some power-ups that help you when you're inside the Air Fortress, but better watch out for the baddies. And some of the enemies look really weird. Some look like Jacks (the childrens game where you bounce the ball and grab a certain number of jacks), some look like washers (those things that usually go between a screw and another surface), and others are just random spinning squares.


Once inside the Air Fortress, the game ends up being very simple. Your energy level is fairly high and the enemies are pretty easy to either destroy or avoid altogether. Standing still raises your energy level and you can usually find more energy throughout the level. Your goal is to go in and destroy a huge red ball (which is believed to be the central core) and find your ship again to escape the destroyed Air Fortress. The levels do end up getting more difficult, but the most difficult part is finding your ship after destroying the central core.
There's 8 different Air fortresses to destroy, so the game ends up taking a bit of time. I have yet to beat this title, but I haven't sat down and actually tried to play through its entirety. My suggestion is to at least try it out cause I think it's pretty fun.

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