Comments on: Free Saturday Shootage: Jets ‘n’ Guns

By: sigma83

sigma83 — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:35:14 +0000

INTENSELY AWESOME. Great way to burn off aggression built up by doing assignments. I <3 massive guns of death

By: subedii

subedii — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:27:18 +0000

Bought it a couple of months ago. Aside from Xenon 2, the game it most reminded me of was Tyrian (classic Epic Megagames top-down scrolling shooter).

It’s a really awesome shooter, I love the quirky sense of humour. Other games of this genre try to take themselves seriously, instead JnG realises how ridiculous it is and runs with that for some funny and weird level ideas.

The difficulty and the general setup of the game had me tweaking and changing my ship setup with every level. Actually gave the gameplay a surprising amount of depth just by that. The fact that you don’t lose money on re-selling anything really helps to encourage experimentation with different configurations.

Oh, and the music is a pretty good fit for the game too.

By: Alarik

Alarik — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:47:55 +0000

Good game, but a bit too easy (basically if you finished the game once, you are all set and another flight-throughs are easy).

Still Hexagun is awesome wepon (and idea).

By: Stromko

Stromko — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:39:44 +0000

Bah. The download was so achingly slow I couldn’t get it done before I had to leave the house, and by time I got back the ‘day’ was over and couldn’t install. That’s how they screw us. :)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:33:17 +0000

Christ, this game is unforgiving. I had it on the easiest difficulty setting, and I had played the hell out of the demo a few months ago, so I was sort of prepared going in- but still I can’t get past the damn “Beer Cube” level. On a lark, I cheated to give myself 999,999,999,999 space-euros or whatever the currency is and tricked out my ZZ Top spacemobile with the finest everything money could buy, and it’s still challenging. Wow. I mean, I know I suck at shmups, but I also know I don’t suck that badly.

By: runningwthszzors

runningwthszzors — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:08:21 +0000

The game is great fun. One nice thing about the game is that its very forgiving with the money. Whatever you buy you can sell at full price. The music is excellent also.

By: LSTAR

LSTAR — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:28:17 +0000

This game makes me want to tear my arms off and feed them to a cat.

And yet, I kinda like it.

By: Nimic

Nimic — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:39:46 +0000

I can’t seem to get past the second level (having tried maybe three or four times). I eventually reach this mega-ultimate supergun of doom. And die.

By: eyemessiah

eyemessiah — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:18:50 +0000

Pah can’t seem to get on to the site to download it!

Curses!

By: Pod

Pod — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:39:44 +0000

I own this. It was great fun, if not a bit easy the first time through because of a bug that made a very deadly gun really cheap. Still, good game, terrible ending. (AND NOW DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN!!!!!…..great)

In the same way that I earn for a remake of Syndicate, I want something simliar to Walker, only 3d. And not rubbish.

By: Sunjumper

Sunjumper — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:36:34 +0000

I have had this game for quite a while and loved it to bits.

Mostly.

The music is great, thanks to Machinae Supremacy, I like the sense of humour it has, there is a stage that has the player blasting the Enemy to shreds during a life concert of Machinae Supremacy that made me smile.

And things explode in the most beautiful ways.

The only thing that stopped me from finishing the games was that the player’s ship weapons fire in al colour of the rainbow exactly as the enemies weapons and the ubiquitous explosions. While this has all the aesthetic appeal of a hyperactive new year’s eve, it makes dodging enemy attacks incredibly difficult.

By: Mr. Mechanical

Mr. Mechanical — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:22:18 +0000

I got in on this the last time it was the game giveaway of the day website and, yeah, it’s an awesomely tough little cookie. Great fun even though I still can’t get past the third stage. Also makes me wish I was around for the Amiga shooters of yesteryear. Maybe I could look into emulation one of these days.