Dogfight: A Sausage Bomber Story Review

The lingering query I’ve after enjoying Dogfight: A Sausage Bomber Story is ‘why sausages?’. Don’t get me improper, I’m a fan of the easy shoot ’em up joys, the four-player focus, and the array of weapons to choose from. However the sausage stuff? Actually, I couldn’t let you know what it’s doing there.

There’s a little bit of Advance Wars to the presentation, which is suitable within the week that Advance Wars 1+2 Re:Boot Camp is launching. Every thing is delivered in daring, major colors and thick 2D sprites. In Dogfight: A Sausage Bomber Story you play your alternative of hero and warplane for the Sausage Bomber Corps. Your activity? To guard the nation of Relishtopia from the Killzone-like invaders known as Vega Nation.

I used to be nicely up for a sausage-themed shooter. I anticipated the display to be filled with Bacon Bombers and Salad Spinners, as we fired wurst out of bap weapons. However whereas each character and area has a food-related pun hooked up, there’s little or no in the primary sport that jumps on the identical theme. Certain, the odd weapon appears to be like like sausages, however more often than not, Dogfight: A Sausage Bomber Story opts to be generic. It’s a disgrace, principally as a result of they’d an enormous sausage-shaped key to fixing it. 

It’s our massive subject with Dogfight: A Sausage Bomber Story, and nicely price getting out of the best way early: it’s curiously unremarkable in terms of what you battle and the place. We’re used to the Giger-like nightmares of Gynoug or the fantastical warships of Gunbird. To return to a shooter known as Dogfight: A Sausage Bomber Story and solely battle bosses which might be known as Mega Prepare and Mega Helicopter is one thing of a disappointment.

However with that out of the best way, we are able to get to the great things, and Dogfight: A Sausage Bomber Story has it aplenty. For one, it’s extremely welcoming. It is a shooter that accommodates 4 sofa co-op gamers on the display directly, and it doesn’t really feel like noisy carnage. That’s uncommon for the style, and it makes for excellent enjoyable. The chase for power-ups is actual when you will have mates serving to but additionally not serving to.

That welcoming nature stretches to loads of problem and accessibility choices. You don’t should be a sweaty speedrunner to see all of Dogfight: A Sausage Bomber Story’s content material, as you’ll be able to dial up the lives. However, equally, there’s a absolutely featured speedrun mode with leaderboards and instances break up by degree, so you’ll be able to strategy it that means too.

Choosing your loadout is spectacular, and shooter followers will really feel like youngsters in candy outlets. There are dozens of weapons, unlocked via a mess of strategies. Taking part in via on completely different problem ranges, grabbing 5 stars on every degree and different feats will nab you these weapons, and you’ll slot them into one in all two slots in your ship. And yep, some are sausage themed: we are going to give Dogfight: A Sausage Bomber Story that one.

Whereas there aren’t an enormous quantity or ranges – there’s an achievement for finishing the sport in beneath half-an-hour for a purpose – there may be an impetus to enjoying a number of instances, because of the achievements, the weapons and the Cave-like thrill of blowing issues up at rising speeds. Dogfight: A Sausage Bomber Story is a nicely made, easy shooter that invitations replay.

Your little sausage bomber has two weapons to name from at a given time, and also you’re most likely finest selecting one for air and one for floor assaults. Later weapons can shoot in an array of instructions and people turn out to be helpful too, as enemies don’t solely come from the entrance. Indicators warn you when ships come from above and behind, and you’ll faucet a shoulder button to swivel spherical and hearth.

It’s a style factor, however I wasn’t an enormous fan of this pivoting gameplay. I favor the ahead momentum of an R-Kind the place you may be reassured that the whole lot is coming at you from the entrance. When it’s a must to reposition your self and handle the again, it feels such as you’re two buttons away from killing the whole lot, fairly than one, and the sport can ambush you. However you might discover it to be much less of an issue.

Every thing else is a bit chef’s kiss. There are many enemy sprites to crunch via, from hovering mechs to power-up dropping planes to massive blimps. All of them have that Vibrant Killzone aesthetic, and you’ll quickly be taught that are price taking out first. Nothing is wildly out-there when it comes to what they anticipate from you, however there are greater than sufficient enemy sorts to behave as a buffet earlier than the massive boss.

We’ve already caught a knife within the themes of the bosses – truthfully, who thought working via the Usborne Guide of Automobiles one by one was thrilling sufficient? – however as encounters they’re cracking. That’s because of the modular strategy to them: each a part of the Mega construction has its personal assault and life bar. Meaning you’ll be able to goal the weapons which might be hurting you essentially the most and incapacitate them. It leaves you with the good feeling of whittling a boss all the way down to its most pathetic weapons, then choosing them off. The bosses don’t essentially make that straightforward, transferring and concealing what they’ll, however they continue to be a spotlight.

It’s sufficient to make you neglect the sausage-garnish, left on the counter and forgotten. As a result of what’s necessary is that Dogfight: A Sausage Bomber Story is a decent shoot ’em up. Not solely that, however it’s packing four-player sofa co-op and an unbelievable variety of weapons. Dogfight: A Sausage Bomber Story, towards the chances, is a sport to relish.