Mighty Tactical Shooter was my favourite game of Rezzed this time around. The concept is simple and brilliant - a turn-based side-scrolling space shooter in the mould of R-Type. I feel like there may be an alternate dimension in which 'turn-based' came to dominate gaming in the way that 'procedural' is. We'd have turn-based racing games, turn-based first-person shooters and turn-based ski-slaughter simulators. Sadly, in…
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Mighty Tactical Shooter might not be the first turn-based side-scrolling space blaster but I can't remember ever seeing one before. A friend pointed the game out as we were browsing The Leftfield Collection at Rezzed, wisely recognising that it would be precisely my receptacle of brewed leaves. The easiest way to describe it is by asking you to imagine R-Type if R-Type were turn-based and…