Nano Assault Neo is a great entry in the series, and it brings its best qualities to the table. As you can see from the screens, it’s a gorgeous game. What you can’t see is the equally awesome soundtrack. Play this one loud. For $10 you really can’t go wrong.
One day you sense Shin’en will make a game that plays as good as it looks. Until then, this is a polished and attractive shooter that you’ll likely have a reasonably entertaining few hours with before forgetting it ever existed within a month. An ideal launch game, then.
So does the world need another twin-stick shooter? Sure it does. There will always be room for great games to transcend their humble genres, else we would have grown tired of 2D platformers decades ago. I'm just not convinced the world needs this twin-stick shooter.
The ease of getting in and out of a game means that any unsuccessful attempt at improving your scores will likely compel you to try again. The Wii U has launched with a great twin-stick shooter right out of the gate, and until more entries in this prolific genre come out, I expect to come back to it again and again.
With highly addictive twin-stick shmup gameplay and difficulty levels that will have you trying over and over again, you’d be remiss to pass up on what could easily become an arcade classic.
- not a port of the 3DS version, but is set in the same universe
- 2 player mode
- can be played on Wii U GamePad
- some new game modes
- great new scoring system
- online rankings
- energy system instead of one hit deaths
- buy new items with credits in the shop between levels
Guaranteed to be a gorgeous game to look at and a great one to play.
