From my perspective, the whole point of the game is that YES it is fun. For a very long time games have revolved around collecting items, equipment, and skills, but today’s newer games are on a sublime level of dumb. Why should I upgrade twenty different things when the first thing is the best thing in the game (i’m looking at YOU, infamous)? UPGRADE COMPLETE rebuffs this trend by making *everything* better than the last thing.

So, I say to the designers: you totally missed the mark, but thanks anyway. Seriously.

Like Achievement Unlocked, Upgrade Complete’s “joke” is apparent right from the start, but unlike AU, UC acts like the players aren’t “in on the joke”.

Personally, I think this could have actually made a pretty cool game if they made it as a straight game and made the gameplay better. I guess that would have defeated their “point”, but again unlike AU, I don’t think there’s all that much to their “point”.

If the upgrade system was “cosmetic” or “by the numbers”, it wouldn’t be as interesting. Here you really do have the motivation to try and figure out a combination that allows the game to play itself. The gameplay isn’t so much in the shooting but more in laying out the spaceship so it can destroy everything and collect all the gold with minimal player intervention – kind of like one of those robot programming games. There isn’t a “game over”, but figuring out how to do that in the least possible time is in its own right a pretty interesting experience.

I certainly agree. (Bloody queen spider thing *shudders*)

After some heavy testing, I found this game quite amusing.
It’s a shame there is no challenge at all, as That ship upgrade personalizing tool holds some true potential. If they make a sequel, it better be a bit more serious when it comes to the game.

Something about the graphics too. I played nearly the whole game with those BigpixelBlobAtarisweetOldgoodinesArtlikeMinimalisticAwsomness graphics. The “Modern” upgrade graphics just didn’t light my fire.
Going even deeper (so Antony(how many of you DID read the credits?hmm.) if you’re really making a sequel listen now). There should have been an older graph version: Everything drawn with letters just like in Nethack (roguelikes rock btw). My ship would have looked like this:

L L L L
Mi
Mi C Mi
Ma Ma
B SP B

Ahh.. character-based graphics.. *drool*

Something about seeing you progress from a level 1 peashooter to a leevl 9683 GODLY MACHINE OF DEATH AND APOCALYPSE never fails to entertain me.