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You can find echoes of other mercenaries (or your previous self) hanging around, and share stages with other players who can use your gadgets to give themselves an advantage. PixelJunk Raiders is currently exclusive to Stadia – Google’s attempt at a Netflix-for-games streaming service, which lets you play on any screen – and there is evidence of Google’s hand in the game’s production, in that some of its features seem oriented more towards showing off the Stadia tech than towards fun. These ought to be snappy 10-minute rescue missions, not drawn-out ordeals.Įnemies respawn unpredictably. Everything is slowed down by having to trawl around looking for weapons or collecting gems that you need to open doors and chests. Getting around its planetary microcosms takes too long, despite a cool rocket-jump that propels you across the surface. It looks like an arcade game, and it’s structured that way, with randomly generated missions that give you a fresh challenge each time, but it is oddly sluggish in the hands. Raiders’ combat is fun and bouncy but a little imprecise, which would be excusable if the penalties for failure weren’t so harsh. Several times I respawned on a planet stripped bare of resources faced with the prospect of trying to pummel aliens to death with my bare fists to grind out enough currency to open a locked door, it was usually easier to just restart the whole mission.
Scanning the horizon for the telltale smoke-plume of a crashed ship, buildings or ruins leads to loot and currency – but if you die, as I often did, you lose it all. Unfortunately I just haven’t had any fun playing it.ĭropped on to a planet where you must rescue disappointingly static alien civilians from squid-like invaders who’ve taken over their citadels, the first thing to do is forage for weapons and blueprints for useful gadgets. Its mix of planetary exploration, scavenging and alien-killing is unusual enough to make an impression the art style, which lands somewhere between a 90s anime and the cover of an old science-fiction novel, is glorious its planets are beautiful the retro-futuristic vibe is refreshing and colourful. A space rescue adventure from Kyoto’s inimitable Q-Games, PixelJunk Raiders has the bones of a great action game.