Alien Crush 9+

Captivating graphics, lots of obstacles to dodge, upgrades make negotiating the course a little easier, great little game.

After finishing a close to 150 hour long playthrough of Alien Crush, I can confidently say that it is undoubtedly one of the best games I have ever played.

The game has one of the most enormous and intricately detailed set of levels I have ever seen in gaming. The different levels that you must treverse in this game are truly awe inspiring. They are all massive, unique and filled with a plethora of secret areas just waiting to be uncovered. The landscapes of the world are also astonishing. The sheer variety and scale of the environments is a sight to behold. Players can expect to explore vast mountains, forests, fields, deep caves, ancient ruins, and even secret underground civilizations. It is clear that a great amount of work went into the design of all of these areas, as they are all exceptionally detailed and have complex lore, realism, and beauty to them that makes them a joy to explore.

The combat in the game is utterly masterful, blending elements from many of the developers previous works including iSymphony to create an extremely tense, fluid, and customizable combat system. The amount of variety in terms of different playstyles, build variation, and weapon types is enough to make the combat in this game endlessly enjoyable.

The level roster of Alien Crush is extremely difficult and unforgettable. Most of the levels are remarkably challenging, rich with lore, and breathtaking to behold. The complex style of the levels can also not be overlooked. Many of the levels have extremely intricate, fast, and punishing attacks that are both extremely difficult to avoid and fun to fight against. This makes the gameplay against the levels feel like a dance, as you rythmically dodge their devastating attacks before finding small windows to go on the of offensive. This is nothing new, as this style of level is exactly what the iSymphony series pioneered. However, Alien Crush perfects this age old formula by giving the levels bigger movesets, greater speed, and more complex combos than ever before. Some of the levels can hammer you with 10 objects with little margin for error, and the player must master a level’s move set if they ever hope to come out on top. When you combine this with the grotesquely stunning visual design of the levels, you get some of the most tense and engaging level design in gaming history.

Ontop of all this, the epic scope of the different levels and vast areas is further heightened by Alien Crush’s stellar musical score. Many of the soundtracks in this game are utterly blood pumping in a way that few other video game scores can match.

Overall, in my opinion, Alien Crush more than lives up to the enomrous hype surrounding it, proving to be one of the most memorable, challenging, and complex gaming experiences of the last century.