Galaga Wars+ (2021) [+]
Nov 04 2024
Galaga Wars+ is a Galaga sequel. You fly a ship anywhere on the screen. It continuously shoots upwards except for a couple of special weapons. Shoot enemy ship squadrons that come in from the top and sides. Fight mini-bosses. Pick up power-ups and collect coins.
In terms of gameplay on my old iPad it's pretty smooth. Your ship moves along with your finger touch which can be a bit RSI if you play this a lot. I moved to using my Apple Pencil and it solved that problem and it's easier to move the pencil than my finger.
Action is frenetic for a few seconds then a pause of a couple of seconds then more enemies come in. You have the Galaga "free a captured ship and have it join you" for twin fighter action, though in this case you don't have to have your ship captured in the first place.
There are 11 sectors with the 11th being an infinite level. I've gotten as far as 10 starting from 1. When you clear a sector you have the option of unlocking it so you can start a game from there (unlocking takes capsules which you pick up a few each game).
There are multiple ships though I think other than graphic they all play the same. You can pick up a ship unlock in each sector and it takes an increasing amount of ship unlocks to unlock a ship. But each ship unlocked effectively gives you one more life each game and there are like 10 ships to unlock.
Coins you pick up about 50 or so per sector. You also get 500 coins accomplishing a daily mission and you get about 500 daily login bonus. You use coins to upgrade each ship. Every ship has the same five upgradeable stats: the first four are the four power-ups that ship can pick up (so that's how ships are differentiated) and the last one is fire rate power-up. The cost of upgrading goes up as you upgrade a power-up more though each additional ship acquired reduces all upgrade costs. Otherwise you don't use coins.
Overall I found a very fun arcade game especially using an Apple Pencil. Good amount of replay-ability even though the waves come in the same each game through the power-ups are kind of random so good if you get lucky you can get further. And as you get more ships you can also go further so that's a nice bonus to buying more ships. Several hours of fun at least.
In terms of gameplay on my old iPad it's pretty smooth. Your ship moves along with your finger touch which can be a bit RSI if you play this a lot. I moved to using my Apple Pencil and it solved that problem and it's easier to move the pencil than my finger.
Action is frenetic for a few seconds then a pause of a couple of seconds then more enemies come in. You have the Galaga "free a captured ship and have it join you" for twin fighter action, though in this case you don't have to have your ship captured in the first place.
There are 11 sectors with the 11th being an infinite level. I've gotten as far as 10 starting from 1. When you clear a sector you have the option of unlocking it so you can start a game from there (unlocking takes capsules which you pick up a few each game).
There are multiple ships though I think other than graphic they all play the same. You can pick up a ship unlock in each sector and it takes an increasing amount of ship unlocks to unlock a ship. But each ship unlocked effectively gives you one more life each game and there are like 10 ships to unlock.
Coins you pick up about 50 or so per sector. You also get 500 coins accomplishing a daily mission and you get about 500 daily login bonus. You use coins to upgrade each ship. Every ship has the same five upgradeable stats: the first four are the four power-ups that ship can pick up (so that's how ships are differentiated) and the last one is fire rate power-up. The cost of upgrading goes up as you upgrade a power-up more though each additional ship acquired reduces all upgrade costs. Otherwise you don't use coins.
Overall I found a very fun arcade game especially using an Apple Pencil. Good amount of replay-ability even though the waves come in the same each game through the power-ups are kind of random so good if you get lucky you can get further. And as you get more ships you can also go further so that's a nice bonus to buying more ships. Several hours of fun at least.