The Superfluous reviews

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Microsoft from Russian
"The Superfluous"-random-generated "rogue-lite" action-platformer, where we, collecting resources, dealing with enemies and moving deeper to the nucleus of the asteroid, pumped and Dokupaem team to try each type of weapons and save the world. Despite The seeming prostate, this game is a rather stressful race from the top of the stage to the final door through a dense layer of aggressive fauna. The Movement is carried out on the destructible platforms with the help of jet-packs. Accordingly, as any self-respecting "bagel", "The Superfluous" puts the player's vulnerability and pumping into the game's head. As the levels mostly represent a dark corridor resembling a cave, there is little space for maneuvers. At the same time the monsters, though the maximum tupa, but rather annoying and aggressive. Sowing the game, you need to be sure to be ready that bouncing slugs, bats, underground worms and so on will devour not only your character, but also a lot of your nerve cells. Because Of the darkness, small animals can simply not catch time, and each hit on you-a significant damage, and without pumping-two or three strikes enough to send you back to the ship. For such things and there is a pumping, which is a collection of money to buy new units with a unique set of weapons, collecting multicolored resources to improve the general and more specific characteristics, as well as earning experience each character Individually, which allows him to become stronger, healthier, more agile. The only Problem is that your men lose all their accumulated experience and skills, dying in battle, so this branch of pumping is useful only to experienced players at later stages when returning to the early levels. Despite The fact that each team member of your crew can carry only two types of weapons, its variety is quite large: rifle, pistol, shotgun, rocket launcher, grenade, pickaxe, laser and so on. It is a bit frustrating that initially on a mission can take with itself only two people, but it is allowed actively between them to switch and increase their number with pumping. "Jumps" are carried out only with the help of jet-pack, each assault set has its own unique feature. Unfortunately, it is impossible To choose it, only units, which have a predetermined combination of abilities and amount of health. What you can really complain about "The Superfluous"-its visual and musical tatness and lack of diversity in the scenery. Otherwise, this game is exactly what it seems. The Management is very responsive, the levels are changing and not bored. Darkness is seriously annoying, given the barely noticeable spikes and bats, which in the active state can not always be noticed, and that, where they hang, it is possible to detect in general purely by accident. Well, is it worth saying that there is even a small plot, which is accompanied by a comedy with the onboard artificial intelligence? It's Not worth it, but I said. So, if you are a fan of the "rogue-lite" genre, you should definitely try this game.
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