I really feel like each time I write about shooters, I all the time have so as to add a caveat alongside the strains of, “I do not actually like shooters… however!” There usually is a however, as a result of sometimes one in every of ’em rolls round that feels prefer it simply will get me, you realize? This week, it is a shooter that feels prefer it was born to be a Flash sport on Newgrounds within the mid-2000s that you’re going to typically convey as much as your folks saying “man, do not forget that one sport?” It is referred to as Shooty Shooty Robotic Invasion, and so simple as its title is, there’s quite a bit going for it.
For one, it is being made by Bubby Darkstar, the identical developer behind 2021’s Subway Midnight, a sport I am all the time shocked by insofar that it would not have as far reaching an obsessive fan base as I believed it could get. Subway Midnight is already a visually surreal delight, however Shooty Shooty Robotic Invasion actually appears to be like prefer it’s amping up the balls to the partitions zaniness issue. It apparently has over 200 NPCs to “work together and have horrible conversations with,” all of that are hand-drawn, a sort of ridiculous feat for what I believe may be a dev workforce of not a lot multiple.
You’ve got additionally bought greater than 50 distinctive robots to tackle, dozens of bosses, “a man named ‘Donnie’ who’s an actual freak” and 6 ranges to wade by way of. Gameplay clever it appears to be like like your traditional boomer shooter by the use of Adventure Time, loads of common weapons to seek out and use, alongside just a few weirder ones. This factor simply appears to be like value enjoying by way of for those who’re an animation lover alone, the colors are so vibrant and a number of the designs on show really feel like they had been born to be become Twitter profile photos (however like, when Twitter wasn’t what it’s now, when it was typically okay and never a continuing hellfire).
The trailer additionally clearly factors out that not a drop of generative AI was used to make it, a disclaimer that I want did not should exist, however one I am glad to see all the identical. It is not too distant from launch both – at present it is slated to be launched subsequent month, July tenth. Within the meantime, you possibly can wishlist it on Steam here.
