There isn't a lot to it, and you'll be done with it in a few minutes. But in those few minutes you'll have some fun.
User Rating: 7.5 | Crystal Spear remake X360
Okay, I don't know what this is a remake OF of course, but it's still kinda neat. Especially since the developer has this description : "Avoid obstacles, and Aim the goal! It takes only two minutes, and no restriction code, so you can play well in the trial." So yes. I'm REVIEWING a TRIAL. Now this is only the second time I've ever seen anything like this in the Indie Games section of Xbox Live. The first game I've seen to do it was complete crap and more of a joke game than anything. A little RPG that you can beat in something like thirty seconds just by pounding the A button. But this on the other hand is an actual game. And is actually quite fun for what it is. All you do is fly through a corridor with various, I guess they're crystals in the way and all you've gotta do is maneuver your way through them around them while you keep going faster and faster. If you smack into one, you just slow down to a dead stop and have to get going again building up your speed. At the end of it, you get a completion screen showing your time. The left stick moves, Right trigger accelerates, Left trigger slows down and the Right bumper slows down. The number at the top is your distance, and the number at the bottom is the time you're taking.
What you see in the screenshot on the marketplace are the graphics, the crystals change color and the sense of speed comes from the squares getting closer and closer. And the game gets pretty damn fast too without any frame rate problems (I should hope not given the simplistic nature of the graphics). The only sound effects you get is a "SCHMACK" when you slam into one of the crystals, and the sound of glass breaking or something when you slow down and the screen inverts it's colors. You get some pretty cool background music, even though there appears to be only one track. The gameplay is one one of those simple to get/pain to master kinda deals and controls without a hitch.
7.5 – The only complaint I've got is that it only saves your time for the session and not permanently, even though it asks which device you want to save stuff to when you first start the game. Other than that it's just fine for what it is and not a bad way to kill a few minutes. I've played it 6 or 7 times so far and I may end up honestly buying it when I've got 80 points just to blow just so I won't have to keep exiting and restarting it.
