TouchGen: Can the bullet hell crown be taken from current holders Cave? Firi Games seem to think so…The ‘bullet hell’ shooter genre is gathering steam on the iOS platforms with two critically acclaimed entries from Cave proving that the iDevices have the grit and brute strength to compete with the console and arcade big boys. Now Firi Games are having a go with a different approach to the genre with their game ‘Phoenix’.
Space Phoenix, the first game by new mobile studio Magic Spore Games, is an addictive spaceship shoot’em up adventure- now on mobile!
Exhaustingly trite and mechanically shallow, A.W. Phoenix Festa is a waste of memory card space better occupied by something like Steins;Gate.
Pocket Gamer - The explosive rise of the shoot-‘em-up - or 'shmup' for those with busy schedules - can be attributed to Space Invaders.
When it launched during the late 1970s it famously caused a shortage of 100-yen coins, such was its popularity in the Japanese arcades.
