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Released: 02 Nov, 2012

Reviewer: Andrew Nesvadba

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Green Rage

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PROS

Wonderful hand-drawn presentation; like a children's novel brought to life.
Cute storyline.

CONS

Poorly considered controls; gameplay used to disguise poor design decisions.

VERDICT

Green Rage is has the potential to be a beautiful, if short experience, but is otherwise smothered by a control system that pairs poorly with the game as designed.

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Green Rage by Paralline exists in that horrible stasis of gaming where poor gameplay mixes with brilliant presentation. All you're tasked with is to guide an alien, beset at all sides by dangers as he searches for his lost companions, but these challenges will prove overwhelming time and time again.

This is thanks, in no small part, to the controls feeling entirely insufficient for the task at hand. A virtual stick allows you to move (very slowly) throughout the stage, while three buttons provide you with access to the basic actions of jumping, firing your weapon, and placing down a portable checkpoint. This last button acts as a kind of warning for what's to come.

As you progress through the stage enemies will spawn, giving you a brief instant to start firing and aim in their direction. Unfortunately for the alien in your charge you can only aim in 7 cardinal directions (down is sadly not available), with enemies taking damage if they happen to line up or you constantly wave the gun back and forth between two directions. The number of enemies sent often proves to be too much for the tiny pea-shooter to handle, resulting in the tiny amount of health the alien has being chewed through very quickly.

And now you know why you have a portable checkpoint - collect enough orbs and you can activate it to restart further away from the start of the stage.

Should you persist you'll be rewarded with an incredibly charming cartoon explaining why you're there and what has happened to the other aliens sent to the planet, but the grueling path to that final scene is a hard one to recommend.

App Store Info

In this space, you usually see an extremely boring description which is as monotonous as the days of fall. We’ll save you time and tell you that in our game you’ll be shooting. A lot. Often. Until your heart stops. If you’re not afraid of wearing your fingers off or making holes in your device’s screen, press the “More” button. Game Features: • The image on your device is such that you feel like touching it, caressing it, and even eating it – so colorful, detailed, and juicy as a bitten apple. • All of our heroes and characters move and behave exactly as flying whales and giant mollusks should. • All of the six game worlds are well thought-out and executed with the precision of a true naturalist (by the way, we lost a few naturalists during the creation process). And you’ll be seeing their landscapes even in your dreams. • A real and honest shooter game which doesn’t just give you but grants you only a well deserved victory. Your victory isn’t measured in little stars. • An adventure which will make you forget about food, sleep, and your pet hamster. • A plot presented in slides which are enough for a whole comic book. • A story full of tragic errors and unwitting bravery which will show you that, deep down, we’re all the same in the Universe. • 10 full-scale music compositions. • 81 (exactly!) sound effects for the heroes and characters recorded with the help of real flying whales and giant mollusks (we lost a few more naturalists while doing the recordings).• Controls which you can set up for any kind of human or alien fingers. • And we are gamers and we do respect you as a gamer. So there are no In-App purchases, commercial and other sort of spoilers and banners inside our game. We vote for fair play. GL.