Speaking of loadout, I think again of our sexualized avatar. However, given the game's nature to punish those with an affinity for methodical play or those given to exploration, I found that taking calculated risks with speed foremost in mind to be the safest and most natural path to the waterfall, as it were I beat the game with the basic loadout and without assisting my ally even once. Hidden stores housing weapon upgrades can be similarly sought out. Doing so consistently will unlock the true final level and the true ending thereafter. There is a sort of subplot at play that features your alien companion, who you must find hidden away in each level and assist. On the normal difficulty, you have just nine lives to make it through the campaign, which given how rough it can be getting from point A to B in this contest, makes the whole thing prohibitively challenging. So you just keep on working at any given stretch until you figure it out. On easy mode, which I recommend, you are granted infinite lives. None of them are particularly well designed from either an aesthetic or functional standpoint, but their constant flow will give you trouble unless you keep moving at all costs taking damage in order to proceed to that next checkpoint is preferable to moving slowly in an effort to avoid it.
Apparently, the aliens on this planet like to come back after each death. The trouble continues with infinitely respawning enemies. The heroine's plodding movements and the reluctant inputs are really where the trouble starts. Her jumping too, is floaty and not quite precise. When you press the shoot button to get her to let off a shot from her laser pistol, there is a small delay, which seems especially prominent when you attempt to shoot after landing a jump. No one will ever say that our main character is agile, or fleet of foot, or particularly adroit with her sidearm, because she's far from those things.
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Unfortunately, the latter sequence only served to bring to mind for me a much better version of a such a stage, in Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master, where Joe Musashi commandeered the hell out of his mount, leaping traps and slaying sprinting ninjas while in full gallop.Īnyway, quite a bit has been made of Ultionus's level of difficulty, insomuch as anything was made of a game this old and obscure, and it's certainly not easy, owing in large part to overly sluggish controls. Aside from the running and gunning, there's an actual space shoot-em-up level or two, as well a steed-riding stage for good measure.
But the remarkable variety in levels for a game of this type might also serve to impress, and it bears mentioning that the level variety also comes straight from Phantis. That much, the developers accomplished on their own.
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Ultionus: A Tale of Petty Revenge is a slow paced run and gun game with awesome 16-bit-esque graphics, featuring large, colourful sprites and vibrant backdrops and some pretty fantastic tunes which hearken back to the best of the early 90s PC adventure scores. It'd be one thing if our heroine was the only element lifted from Phantis, but it's not. Where do inspirations leave off and rip-offs take over? Who’s to say? Then I read up on the game and came to find out that the suit was copied wholesale along with a bunch of other design elements from Game Over II (aka Phantis) a 1987 PC title that ‘inspired’ the developer.
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And they got me to thinking - I get that using sex to sell games isn’t anything new (although perhaps doing so in a retro styled 2D platformer kind of is - why this particular design? The buxom blonde with skin tight violet one-piece bodysuit with the thong back. They’re the first things you see, and they're barely contained by purple spandex. With the ridiculous premise out of the way, we can’t ignore the two elephants in the room. (To be fair, we don't know what he typed at her.) Was there no empire to tangle with? No planet-destroying weapon to tamper with? It must be peace time in the galaxy if cyber bullying is a call to arms. Serena, presumably an interstellar champion for good, traveled through space to give an online troll his comeuppance. The enemy? A douchebag prince who trolled her on Spacebook.
Serena's spaceship gets shot down as she enters enemy airspace. Ultionus: A Tale of Petty Revenge (PC) review
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