Boss Arena Recovery: To keep it somehow manageable, every now and then he reaches for a container with some goodies, and some baddies.
Marathon Boss: MACE might take a couple hours, mostly because of it's head that just keeps absorbing damage.
You're also allowed to use weaponry of your choice to deflect or destroy certain projectiles, such as missiles.
Improbable Use of a Weapon: Where to begin with Maku, she uses a laser cannon twice as big as her, twirls it around like a baton, swings around on a grappling hook while shooting it,uses it as some sort of jetpack, fires it at a disco ball to reflect and split the beam, and fires it into the ground to make molten lava shoot out of the ground and partially fill the cave.
Humongous Mecha: The final boss MACE is a giant robot, complete with Eye Beams, giant missiles, and huge electrified fists that also shoot lasers.
Guns Akimbo: Duel pistols can be used but do to the low damage and ammo capacity they are really only useful as backup weapons, especially later in the game.
Gratuitous Japanese: Dan Maku is japanese for Barrage.
Goomba Stomp: Jumping on enemy soldier's heads is a effective way to defeat them and will even earn you a Steam achievement.
you eventually have to destroy most of said fingers. So anyway, maybe I'll revisit this final level some day, and try one more time. But what I see is that the devs got selfish here and didn't want to make it easy for anyone, or at least to some very patient few to beat the game. And it's really a shame because Intrusion 2 is a good game. I would say, I probably don't suck, and the combination of not very well balanced physics, crappy controls and the difficulty setting in this game not working, is to blame here. Well having almost 100%ed all Batman Arkham City achievements and having played Super Meat Boy, amongst other things too. But their low is apparently really high because I still didn't beat the game! But maybe I suck and that's why I couldn't beat the final boss you may say. I got pissed because I was playing the game on normal difficulty until then, and I had to change it to Low difficulty, as the game calls it. But I didn't got pissed because I was trying for 3 hours. I tried, I tried and I tried for 3 hours, the same time it took me to clear all the previous levels and get here. I tried very hard to defeat that big-giant robot. Now is the time to take all that fun and destroy it! (You probably guessed this is the part I got pissed) Because this game will punish you really hard for having fun all that time. Just stop playing at the final boss battle. Also you jump by pressing up on the analog stick or the A button, both of which kinda break down and don't work when the combat gets intense.Īnyway you can easily overlook those issues for a good game right? Yes you can. You can't even press down on the D-Pad to navigate the menu screen, it requires that you to play with the cursor by using the Analog sticks to do so. In case you didn't notice in the trailer there is a mouse cursor in the game! Why? Maybe the devs were influenced by developing this in Flash, which has a lot of mouse-over functionality, but none of which is in any way implemented in the combat system. You would think that a 2D shooting game is meant to be played with a controller right. I played (almost) the entire game with an Xbox 360 controller. Needless to say that the boss battles in this game suffer from major balancing issues between the physics, and the controls which I'll talk about now. As in, you must rely on it and hope that the barrels, stones and boxes behind of which you take cover, will remain there, when trying to dodge fireballs, lasers, rockets and lava! Just hope that you are really lucky. Thanks to the surprisingly good physics engine in the game.īut the physics in this game is also a curse. I enjoyed the mechs, especially one mech with a grappling hook mechanic, you can really make dudes and robots fly with that one. yeah! It takes some referenced from old games like Metal Slug, and Contra in the final boss battle. And a bad-ass woolf that you can ride, shoot lasers from and eat your enemies. It has a lot of fun levels, good variety of guns and enemies. Alright I'll start by saying what I liked about the game and what really pissed me off.