Your primary weapon fires endlessly and upgrades as you collect bits from fallen enemies.

Whether you choose Cactus, Aubergine, Lemon, Starch, Holly, or another, each character sports a primary and secondary weapon. Unlike your mindless robot nemeses, your playable characters are androids, all named after items on a grocery list written by a man having a stroke.

If the battery empties out, you’ll restart the level. The more you die, the faster you will have to dispatch your robot enemies to stay in the game until you’ve defeated all waves. Defeating a wave of enemies will drop a green power-up which will recharge a portion of your reserves. This battery steadily depletes over the course of the level, and if you or any of your co-op partners “dies,” the battery loses more energy. Assault Android Cactus+ is a must-have twin-stick shooter, but for those without an obsession for leaderboards, the experience will feel short-lived.Īssault Android Cactus+ separates itself from other twin-stick shooters by giving you unlimited lives but one battery. Developer Witch Beam has refined the gameplay and presentation so expertly that any gamer will have a blast, no matter how much you end up playing.

For the rest of us, you’ll be looking at around five hours of playtime, ten at most. I don’t know how time operates for you all. Otherwise, their ritual is some sort of masochistic torture lifestyle.įor the high score chasers, Assault Android Cactus+ ( AAC) will keep you entertained for the entire year, or maybe a month. At least, I assume they enjoy doing this. Why play any other game when you can play Donkey Kong for four hours straight or complete Ocarina of Time blindfolded? These gamers manage to suck dry any fun the game had and then eat the desiccated husk. Whereas the plebian plays a game only once, the chasers and runners will replay that game ad nauseum until they break a world record. High score chasers and speedrunners have found the key to happiness in video games.

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