Unfortunately, there are shortcomings, which come from the Roguelike elements. Between homing weapons, straight shooters, bouncing grenades, and flamethrowers, there’s some interesting options to test out for experienced pilots. The weapons themselves are varied if a little limited in number. I found a smartgun to be a necessity as I focused on dodging enemy fire, but bullets soon became scarce. It becomes immediately apparent that switching weapons regularly is crucial, as ammo quickly becomes an issue if you don’t switch between gun types. New to the Switch release are gyro controls, but they aren’t exactly useful (and I never got them to work particularly well) in such a fast paced and precise shooter.Īfter getting to grips with the controls, navigating the intensely neon levels and blasting enemies out of the air is an incredibly satisfying loop. The standard FPS control scheme is simple enough, but when combined with vertical movement on the shoulder buttons and rolling 90 degrees left and right on the face buttons, it’s a steep learning curve. It’s a great aesthetic (which even carries across to the glowing lava-filled depths of the base) but it does sometimes make the small neon enemies a little tricky to spot.įlying through the gravity-lacking world of Sublevel Zero Redux definitely takes some getting used to.
The facility is beautiful to look at, with bright neon colours coating the walls in a way that screams Sci-Fi. This means navigating each randomly generated stage and the hostile ships within, finding the reactor core, and destroying it for parts. In a search for lost technology, your ship is sucked into an abandoned facility and leaving is not an option unless you gather all the flux engine parts you need. Sublevel Zero Redux opens with a tale of a universe being destroyed by tears in space and time, and humans fighting to survive in this world.
Sublevel Zero Redux aims to scratch that itch with a Roguelike twist. Fans of the Zero Gravity FPS series Descent, and the Nintendo 64’s Forsaken, were left in the 90s with very little to satisfy their niche itch. There are some genres of video game that seem to disappear for years, even decades, at a time.
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