![]() ![]() I would have enjoyed most of these game modes more if they had a pick-up and play nature as other SHMUP’s. Sadly though, most of these game modes are not very short and thus makes playing a run more of a time commitment. Which can really let you challenge yourself or have an easy run. The endless mode even allows you to set some custom parameters for your run. They have also included a survival mode and an endless mode. That mode was pretty fun once you had a handle on the basics. An Arena mode that allows you to take on various game challenges, like stronger enemies or specific weapons. There is a daily run mode that will take your run score and put it onto the world wide leaderboards. If you get Curved Space and only play through the campaign then you would be missing a lot of the other content here. Especially given the 3D aspect of the game itself. But it felt like more could have been done with them. This is not a bad thing, as it incorporates Curved Space’s unique mechanic. Most of them you will lash to siphons to help deal damage to them while blasting them with your weapons. But I say this to say they all mostly play the same except for this giant centipede like one. There are quite a few unique boss encounters in Curved Space. ![]() And non-radiant spiders always swarm you during these parts so it makes it pretty hard to not hit them at times. You can only kill those spiders during this time and if you kill anything else it costs you an extra life or power boost. I did not like the “Destroy X number of Radiant spiders” objectives however. One of the missions gives you a special upgrade that allows you to just do a survival wave objective by blasting turrets at them. I loved some of these objects more than others. Such as killing specific spider enemies, gathering radiant energy from radiant spiders (which we will get to these buggers), harvesting spiders, discharging energy from conductors and so on. Within the campaign, and other game modes that we will talk about a little later, you are given certain objectives to fulfill. Which helps when you are working on various mission objectives. Though I did get blasted into stuck spots a couple times, the game quickly fixed that and put me back on the map. Space stations, mobius strips, asteroids and conductor platforms. The environments were pretty well designed and had some good variation. 3D Mapping and Mission StructureĮvery mission takes places on 3D maps that you can zip all around, flipping upside down and curving around spire points. I certainly loved dashing right through enemies and watching them explode. While bigger enemies will take a bunch of damage and get stunned. This will usually kill any of the smaller spiders that it hits. The lash serves another function as well however. Well, you lash them and connect them to siphons in most missions to harvest them for energy. Though that is not to say that Curved Space does not have any unique game mechanics to itself.Īs I mentioned prior, people harvest spiders for energy. There is even a score system that functions exactly like other SHMUP’s, like Super Stardust HD. Such as various weapon types or picking up upgrades for your ship whenever you kill a boss. It takes a lot of inspiration from other games of the genre. While Curved Space at its core is a SHMUP. Plus once you finish the campaign, you can loop back with your current progress and do it again at a higher difficulty. This leads to a branching mission structure that was quite enjoyable. In order to save themselves, they each focus on different ideas. Though an inter-dimensional rift has opened causing three versions of this person to co-exist within the same universe. The story focuses on one of the people who harvests this energy. Though this has had unintended consequences which leads us to the focus of the story here. So as humans will do, we decided to harvest the energy within these beings instead of energy within our own universe to meet our needs throughout the universe. This caused extra-dimensional creatures, which are called Spiders, to appear. The human race started to harvest energy from the universe. The story of Curved Space starts out simply enough. Harvest some energy with me as we go full force through this Curved Space review. It had a sort of charm that other SHMUP (shoot ‘em up) games didn’t quite have. That being said, I actually found myself having a fair bit of fun with Curved Space. ![]() ![]() I truly did go into doing this review as blindly as anyone could. Admittedly, I knew next to nothing about what type of game Curved Space was going into it. ![]()
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