Sigh...what a disappointment.

The trailer looks promising, with a unique color palette aesthetic and interesting enemy sprites. The gameplay seemed to mix old-school arcade shooters with modern bullet hell titles.

While Red Death does offer gameplay like that, it's incredibly shallow. Enemy design is limited, bullet patterns are predictable, the framerate drops to a chug every few seconds, the music is dull and listless, and there are only three levels. It took me about 20 minutes to get to the end of this game.

And the worst part? The writing, oddly enough, as you'd think the writing in an arcade shooter shouldn't matter. But as the game attempts at presenting a narrative throughout the levels there's nothing you can do to skip the spelling errors, grammatical errors, egregiously unnecessary profanity, and stupid story. Does Lovecraft really need to be shoved into everything? No.

For $0.50 I guess I can't complain too much, but if I found this in a real arcade, I'd pop my two quarters in once and never come back to it.

Sigh...what a disappointment. The trailer looks promising, with a unique color palette aesthetic and interesting enemy sprites. The gameplay seemed to mix old-school arcade shooters with modern bullet hell titles. While Red Death does offer gameplay like that, it's incredibly shallow. Enemy design is limited, bullet patterns are predictable, the framerate drops to a chug every few seconds, the music is dull and listless, and there are only three levels. It took me about 20 minutes to get to the end of this game. And the worst part? The writing, oddly enough, as you'd think the writing in an arcade shooter shouldn't matter. But as the game attempts at presenting a narrative throughout the levels there's nothing you can do to skip the spelling errors, grammatical errors, egregiously unnecessary profanity, and stupid story. Does Lovecraft really need to be shoved into everything? No. For $0.50 I guess I can't complain too much, but if I found this in a real arcade, I'd pop my two quarters in once and never come back to it.