The Switch’s rise continues to be a boon to us PC people. Yesterday, our model of my favouritest twin-stick shooter, Assault Android Cactus, received all of the upgrades from its current Switch debut, free. Now titled Assault Android Cactus+, devs Witch Beam have bulked it up with a bundle of new features, together with Campaign+ mode, a second loop by the game’s story mode. Daring gamers can now face down endgame enemies from the very starting, remixed bosses and a few downright intense bullets patterns to dodge. The game can also be on sale, earlier than a worth improve tomorrow.
It’s not typically {that a} four-year-old arcade game will get an overhaul, however due to Assault Android Cactus’s slick Dreamcast-inspired artwork path, I don’t really feel prefer it has aged a day. The quick, bassy soundtrack nonetheless bangs, the explosions are good, and the upgrades (detailed in full here) go a protracted strategy to extending the enjoyable. The Campaign+ mode is genuinely intense, with the very first degree being considerably longer, far tougher and extra diversified. The new mode has its personal leaderboards, too, and finishing ranges within the new Campaign+ mode with every character unlocks new skins.
Effectively, the brand new mode doubles the game’s dimension to fifty story ranges, plus problem modes. There’s additionally been some enhancements to accessibility. There are auto-aim and revive help choices, making exact aiming and button-mashing much less important. You also can revive your self after a knockdown by holding hearth as a substitute of mashing, too, though it’s not fairly as quick as hammering on it. Sadly there’s nonetheless no on-line multiplayer, however in the event you can’t rustle up some buddies for native co-op, you may add as much as three AI-controlled buddies to the combo, with enemy spawns scaling to match.
Assault Android Cactus+ is on sale for £5.49/€6.99/$7.49 on Steam, together with a free demo. Owing to the upgrades, the game’s base worth can be increased after this sale ends Thursday, 6pm GMT. I extremely suggest snapping it up now. It’s brill.
Disclosure: Former RPSer Cara Ellison voiced Peanut, one of many unlockable shooty android women. She’s the rusty, eyepatched one with the drill, and within the game?
