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In a game like this, beating a stage isn’t enough – after all, any old person can hop into a space ship and make it to the end of a level, especially in a title that doesn’t have lives. This changes entirely when you take medals into account. The difficulty curve is masterfully balanced: you’ll never complain about anything being too easy, and you’ll never come to a place where you physically can’t get past a problem. It doesn’t hurt that the actual transition between the two happens without any delay either, something that could have very easily broken the momentum.īoth methods of gameplay are introduced early on, and then are built upon for almost the entirety of the game’s fifty levels.
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Although the “genre” appears to change, what you’re doing is largely the same. The genius in this transition is that the gameplay stays largely the same: shoot enemies, rush through a maze of pathways, and teleport short distances to get around obstacles. Occasionally, you’ll be forced to park up your ship and jump onto foot. Later you’ll gain access to a long distance teleporter, which will have you jumping across the entire stage at a push of a button, hitting switches to open up new pathways. Dodging walls with the short-distance teleporter means that you can make it across the screen in an instant, and this makes for brilliantly original level design. Saving allies lost amongst the stars and shooting down alien scum may seem like the main objective, but actually that's just a mask for a speed-driven assault course. Mastering both is the only way to top the leaderboard.įirstly, the space levels are far slicker than they were before. More amazing than that, it’s decided not to separate these levels, but weave them together in individual stages.
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However, instead it’s decided to risk adding on a whole new style of play, on top of perfecting the already near-perfect gameplay of Velocity Ultra. The problem wasn’t that these sections couldn’t be successfully fused, but that they tended to be forced in unnaturally as a way to check off some internal anti-originality checklist: a) Red barrels b) Annoy the player with an infiltration mission.įuturLab could have easily made Velocity 2X an improved version of the original – and considering the silky smooth design choices in that game, we wouldn’t have thought any more about it. Mixing genres is a risky business, as anybody who remembers the obligatory stealth sections in old-school first-person shooters will testify.
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