Blazing Trail

I thought it would feel like playing Jackal on NES but it's more akin to an arcade game that takes your quarters. > You get a health bar because the enemy shots move faster than you can dodge. > The screen is more zoomed in than the screenshots, which means you'll be shot at before you can register that there is an enemy there. > The level begins with a long unskippable animation of the boat dropping you off; not...

7 found this helpful, 2025-09-30

Played until the first boss. Then it became a bullet hell game instead of a shoot 'em up. Controls with keyboard and mouse is abysmal. You can't aim with you mouse. Machine gun always shoots up, Rockets always shoot from your front and has low reach, while the laser is a long range one and you can't spam it (but it's not needed since every enemy usually dies in 1-2 shots from it). Why release the game on PC and not...

4 found this helpful, 2026-01-28

4.5/10 This does have the intensity of old arcade shooters, but this really needed way more time in the oven. I got it in a bundle for 2 bucks and even that isn't worth it. The game looks alright but I've seen better pixel art. The sound sounds like stock sounds and the music loops are short and repetitive. The controls suck, and there's no way to change them. PC gaming in the 2020 for you. They should have gone...

2 found this helpful, 2026-02-15