Black Paradox

Great game, I love the VHS-style design, the music, the gameplay, and the boss fights are challenging enough. Some issues: When you beat the game and then play again right after, it takes you back to the final level. No power ups or anything, you start the game over but in the last level. If you beat the final boss again, you get the same cycle. This must be a bug in the game. If you DIE on the last level during this, you go to the “play again” screen but it won’t let you press the button, and you’re just stuck in that screen and have to completely close out the game and reopen to play again. Also, during the ending credits, there is some text that says “press start to skip,” meaning skip the credits. There is no start button tho, and I’ve pressed all over the screen and nothing. You have to watch the credits every time. The game also, rarely, stops firing your guns for no reason and you have to tap all over the screen like an insane person to get it to start up again. Playing on iPhoneX Otherwise a great game. Will give 5 stars when the bugs are ironed out. UPDATE: They have fixed the issue with repeating the last level after beating the game. The other bugs are still present.

This is a perfectly designed side scrolling shooter in my mind. I like that even though it’s Rogue-like, you can preserve upgrades to make progressing through the game easier as time goes on. However, I have found that I have to force myself to die in order to get the Garage to display new upgrades for purchase. This means that I find myself purposely dying on the final boss and forfeiting the money I would get from beating him just because if I don’t die, no matter how many times I run through the game, the same upgrades will remain present in the store. Also, it would be nice to have some sort of web site we could reference to determine what each end of level mod does, rather than the obscure description it gives with certain mods/drones/chips after beating a boss. This could also be done in-game with a help/info button. Outside of these two things, the game is exactly what I’ve been looking for and I must give the designers/developers a lot of credit with putting together such a wonderful game. Looking forward to more updates which will hopefully include new levels and boss fights along with the bug fixes mentioned above! (Oh, and new weapons too!) Keep up the great work. 👍

This game compared to super hydorah is more fun, more action, the movement is more precise and responsive. It also delivers much better pixel art graphic detail along with the amazing retro music soundtracks which makes this game superb. Let’s not forget to mention that you have health bars in this game which I love also compared to super hydorah which you only 2 hits against you and you’ll die instantly which got frustrating a little (still good game though). 5 stars to this game, a must buy for the price!!!

I have to apologize for my past review. These developers are awesome. Very awesome. To start-they originally released a FANTASTIC take on the roguelike/shmup genre. It was a full premium experience from the get-go, and they've released a few updates that have just made it better and better, even though they could have just released the 1.0 version and moved on to another game and been just fine. This latest update with the addition of Darkness Mode and a pretty unexpected new boss is FANTASTIC! I would have loved to have gotten the storage in the garage included, but there's so much else that was included here that it's impossible to be even a little bit disappointed. THANK YOU DEVS!!!! If you're looking for a Steredenn-like/roguelike shmup that holds its own alongside the best in the genre, you should DEFINITELY check Black Paradox out.

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The game is a lot of fun to play, however I’m finding that in almost every single item drop, I’m either only able to pick up the item on the right side of the screen, or sometimes no item at all. Without picking up item drops you’re basically unable to continue playing your current run because the enemies get way too difficult without upgrades. Please fix this issue so I can pick up items. I’m sitting there tapping the screen and end up dying trying to pick up an item.