Zombotron

I think the person behind Zombotron did good on the marketing front. I do not personally remember any of his past works, but supposedly he made relatively popular Flash games in the past, and even a Flash game by the same name 7 years prior. Most of the reviews were reminiscing about that, but I can't say I had the same experience.

Zombotron feels like a very run-on-the-mill platformer shooter. You traverse levels, shoot some enemies, fight a few bosses, oh and you have physics to kill enemies with too... Definitely gave Flash game vibes, and I don't say that in a positive way. The characters are big (which means less fits on the screen) and cartoony (which I just don't like, but I guess seeing their joints is objectively bad) and just uninteresting. There's a level up system, but it's just small numerical upgrades and feels enitrely uninpactful. There's different weapons, but they don't really change anything. You still just run, jump, shoot, maybe melee. The game touts all these methods to kill the enemies, but I think they're all pretty boring. The whole game's just... unremarkable.

I don't have a lot to say. Zombotron is the very basics of a platformer shooter with no cool hook, and even then the execution is sub-par. I've definitely played more interesting and more polished platformer shooters (like Seraph or sth.), and still forgotten about them. Zombotron in no way deserves my time nor my recommendation.