The daddifcation of video video games continues with aplomb, however what a horrible waste parenthood is, accumulating genetic materials to make a mewling fool who can’t even drive. It’s time for this to finish. It’s time to be your personal dad. Or your personal mom within the case of Beacon, a roguelikelike top-down shooter the...
“There’s nothing like harvesting the deoxyribonucleic acid from the corpses of your enemies and using it to modify your own genome to become an all-crushing gunwarrior capable of defeating entire planets” my grandmother used to say. She would have preferred the look of Beacon, a top-down shooter with shapes and hues organized in such a...
There’s a risk with Roguelikes and bullet hells that they become more style and substance. If the shooting, dodging and pacing is off then flare won’t save them from playing like knock-off Game Boy games from elderly relatives who didn’t know any better. Still, I’d say Beacon has margin for error—this is a sci-fi Roguelike in haute couture....
