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In the game you’ll get to choose your character, and this carries a bit of consequence as it will affect not only things like how many lives you get but the type and duration of power-ups and assists you can get. Once you’re in the game the object is pretty simple, shoot things and stay alive. You’ll need to try to be accurate and periodically go to the top or bottom of the screen to pick up ammo refills since otherwise you’ll run dry and be in trouble. Power-ups are somewhat infrequent depending on your character but welcome. Your biggest threat tends to be periodic planes flying over that will infect you and screw with your controls. The effect isn’t terribly hard to counteract but depending on the enemies on the screen at the time it can end up being fatal. As you find success you can check out your placement on the leaderboards and slowly unlock new characters with different attributes to consider. While I may be a bit more red-blooded a shooter fan than this game has in mind the biggest issue I have is simply that it lacks and real intensity or urgency. The number of enemies on the screen stays pretty low overall and while some may have shields to make you work a bit harder the pacing is a bit of a bummer. A lack of any combo multipliers or bonuses with regards to scoring adds to the lack of urgency. Finally, the control scheme is just a bit odd, you can only fire to either side and the buttons those are mapped to isn’t explained to you and are just unusual overall. While it carries a very budget-friendly price, make no mistake, Reptilian Rebellion isn’t going to over-deliver on excitement relative to its cost. Perhaps there will be some people that latch onto its simplicity and will play it for awhile but I would assume most people would burn out on it very quickly due to the lack of excitement and a more complex scoring system that makes climbing the leaderboards more interesting. Considering the strong genre representation on Switch it’s hard to recommend.
Justin Nation, Score:Bad [5.0]