Pocket Gamer: Some genres need specific types of controllers to function at their very best. Fighting games need arcade sticks, driving games need steering wheels, dancing games need lithe young bodies (steady - ed).
Bullet-hell games need something swift and responsive, a control system that lets you twitch and dodge.
GameWoof reviews A Space Shooter for Free from Frima Studio. This Android game is a fun vertical shooter if you can get past its terrible puns.
Pocket Gamer: Since DotEmu re-released the splendid R-Type for Xperia Play, our thirst for ultra-challenging shoot-'em-ups has been somewhat quenched.
That was never going to last long, however. So along comes A Space Shooter For Free, whose self-effacing title is both mildly humorous and mildly misleading.
It's a shmup from the outset. You man a single ship on a scrolling screen as Commander P. Jefferson, a Deathspank-like hero with a penchant for explosions and killing “all alien scum”.
Canadian independent game developer Frima Studio will be making its PAX Prime debut when the video game convention opens up later this week.
