The Ambassador: Fractured Timelines
7 ART
8 FEEL
6 DEVS
9 MUSIC
7 WRITING
4 STORYLINE
7 CHARACTERS
7 OVERALL RATING
The gameplay itself is very addictive and enjoyable, with a fair amount of challenge (at least playing without assisted mode). As I did not try assisted mode, I cannot speak on the level of fun in that mode.
The game clearly draws a lot of inspiration from disparate fantasy properties. It also draws inspiration for gameplay from Dark Souls type games, emphasizing attack patterns and usage of various weapon abilities to surpass each challenge. The game is very fair, once you use your brain to figure out what is the optimal way to tackle an area. Good reflexes and skill with a controller certainly help as well.
– Real player with 11.9 hrs in game
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WHAT IS IT?
It’s a bullet hell game. Thematic element is fantasy and a bit of sci-fi.
PROS:
1. Fast paced action.
2. Good soundtrack.
CONS:
1. Terrible story/plot.
2. Frustrating levels (ie. not fun).
3. Controls don’t feel fluid compared to using a mouse and keyboard.
4. Diverse item pool but largely useless as you’ll be using just 3 or 4 of them most of the game out of the 30 or so.
CONCLUSION:
I’m usually not a fan of bullet hell games (ie. games that just shoot a bunch of stuff at you filling your screen with orbs/missiles/fireballs/etc.). I gave this one a bit of a try as it came with a Humble Bundle and it just made me hate the genre even more. Don’t get me wrong, I grinded through the game and finished it on the hardest difficulty so I’ve experienced most of what this game has to offer. And it doesn’t really offer much… a plot that doesn’t pull you in, unnecessary item selection for the sake of having items, a large “variety” of enemies that mostly have the same strategies to defeat, and just some overall frustrating levels due to certain enemy types. The game does include an endgame mode which seems more fun than the story mode. The endgame mode throws you in a large arena where you’ll fight waves upon waves of enemies while starting off with only your basic items. As you defeat more waves, you gain more money to purchase better items. This mode doesn’t need to hide behind a weak plot in the main game, I would have liked it to be the main game itself and just scrap the story mode.
– Real player with 9.7 hrs in game
Waves
It is a bit difficult to find truly great twin stick arcade shooters on PC. There are quite a few of them around, but my search has been to find something as close to the PSN great Super Stardust HD as possible. A truly amazing twin stick shooter that many of us even got for free after the infamous ApocalyPS3 where PSN got hacked a few years back. Our reward was free games for not being able to login for a month! I ended up with Super Stardust HD, Little Big Planet, and inFamous as mine so I did well, but Super Stardust HD was the big surprise of the lot and I have been searching for a similar twin stick shooter ever since.
– Real player with 119.0 hrs in game
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Who doesn’t love Arcade-Games?
Waves is a typical example for one of these. You have to eliminate the opposing balls as a ball. Sounds boring but this is not the case at all.
The Fun-part starts simply by the fact that there are several gamemodes. I personally just play three of them because they are the best in my opinion.
| Mode | Description |
| Crunch Time | Achieve as many points as possible within 3 minutes |
– Real player with 56.8 hrs in game
TimeTekker
TimeTekker is a fun little (fixed-screen) arcade-style bullet-hell arena-survival game in which you play as a Space Ninja who has the ability to deflect enemy projectiles and slow down time.
The game has absolutely no story, whatsoever, and that is reflective of its arcade game nature. It is a game meant for the player to jump in and play, no questions asked.
– Real player with 10.7 hrs in game
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Really love this game so far, it hits that perfect difficulty level for me as a 27 year old gamer. It’s more about brains then reflexes in otherwords!
The game seems hard at first, but as you get better Merciless becomes the perfect amount of Difficulty for extended play. (start out on easy/brutal until you get used to it)
In a nutshell, Timetekker has simple yet satisfying gameplay. Shoot, dodge, slow down time. On a deeper level you will need to be learning new strategies to make it onto the top of the leaderboard, ie. moving after shooting since time resumes after firing.
– Real player with 10.0 hrs in game
Warshmallows
Well even if we ve been playing this game for a while now, it still a loot of fun.
Recommended :
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Play 2V2 Online or Counch
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Go for the end of the rounds : Catastrophes are epic
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Listen to the music: Warshmallowzzzzzz :D
Expected to see in the future :
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More fun modes
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More competitions / Leagues or something like that
– Real player with 381.4 hrs in game
i highly recommand this game if you want to have fun and chill like it was super funny and crazy specially when i played 2v2 like fighting with those cute little ‘‘warshmallow’’ :p it was so amazing that you can play online as solo player or play with your friends
– Real player with 53.4 hrs in game
Time Gap Puppies
I like what I’ve played of it, but unfortunately it constantly crashes and ruins my runs, meaning that I unfortunately cannot recommend the game in it’s current state.
If these bugs are fixed, I will be more than happy to play the game again, and possibly re-review it.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
NEAR DEADline
I love this game so much! I have been loving it ever since I played it back on newgrounds, it controls like dogshit but I still love the gameplay! I especially love the into cutscene and all the sprite work in the game, very cartoony and lovable!
Also the coding is nice, this is for you, brandy. Still never got credited for the clown animation. 9/10
– Real player with 2.7 hrs in game
“Password incorrect; Password should be vali:d”
7.5/10 — A lot of self-mockery and humour — indicating we shouldn’t take this free piece to_o serious — but definitely worth my time!
PS I’m not the artist here, but if you are, check this out! I assume it’s not just another joke ;-)
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
Splitfire
Splitfire is inspired by classic twin-stick shooters like Geometry Wars, while pushing the genre to new territories. Until now, a twin-stick shooter has been defined as a game where the left joystick controls movement, and the right joystick controls one weapon. In Splitfire, both joysticks have their own weapon that can each shoot in it’s own direction, giving the player total control over the aiming of each. This is why Splitfire is twin-stick shooter, redefined.