Humans Must Answer review

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The scrolling shoot-'em-up, or shmup as it is sometimes lip-smackingly known, is perhaps gaming's most conservative genre. This is a style of gaming that has its roots in the very earliest days of the arcade, found its ideal form not long after and has resisted any attempts to deviate from that formula in the decades since.
There have been innovations, of course, but those mostly come from enterprising specialist developers playing around within the fairly rigid boundaries that fans expect. Ikaruga found brilliance just by making the colour of your bullets and enemies a central part of its design. Sine Mora tethered time limit and score together, forcing the player to keep scoring in order to stay in the game. Humans Must Answer... well, it's hard to pin down one single innovation that this enthusiastic indie brings to the genre.
There are several areas where Humans Must Answer deviates from the expected horizontal shmup script, but they feel scattershot in nature - exploratory doodles waiting to be refined into something more deep and detailed.
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