Star Marine: Infinite Ammo (iOS)

**Yoshi** · 12 Jan 2012, 10:20 AM

I saw this on Touch Arcade and grabbed it but haven't had a chance to dig in yet:

If the control can support the action, this will be awesome.

**Fe 26** · 12 Jan 2012, 10:27 AM

Art design is slightly shitty. Like 1993 US PC side scroller shitty.

**kingoffighters** · 12 Jan 2012, 10:50 AM

Yoshi, let us know how it plays.

**Pineapple** · 12 Jan 2012, 12:18 PM

Seems like a game that would benefit from actual buttons instead of touch-screen. Do what kof says.

**sleeve** · 12 Jan 2012, 12:22 PM

Originally Posted by Pineapple

Seems like a game that would benefit from actual buttons instead of touch-screen. Do what kof says.

Agreed. It's nothing that'll obsolete the 3DS anytime soon.

I'm still gonna buy it

**sleeve** · 12 Jan 2012, 06:10 PM

OK, so I downloaded this and played it on the iPhone for about 10-15 minutes while waiting in court.

I get surprised when people say 1st gen GameBoy games like The Castlevania Adventure and Operation C are pieces of shit. Because when I played them, they were absolutely mindblowing. They were mindblowing, of course, when compared to other portable games, and other GB games at the time. Today, they don't hold up all that well.

This game is the equivalent of the Castlevania Adventure: it's an acceptable action game for iOS, but pretty shitty compared to a modern 2D portable platformer like Shinobi.

It has a nice combo-based score system. The pad-style touch controls work OK. But the jump and fire buttons are swapped, which is pretty annoying. And the game constantly spams ads at you in-between levels.

**Frogacuda** · 12 Jan 2012, 06:20 PM

This is one of those subgenres that just absolutely doesn't work with touch controls from what I've played before.

I've lightened up on touch screen gaming a lot, but it really is a matter of designing the game around the controls and not trying to force it based on what worked in another format.

Occasionally phone games will surprise me. Dead Space really impressed me with how well it could cram all the gameplay of the console game onto a touch screen layout without it being awkward. But usually they end up clunky and awkward and not fun.