The pleasure - and the difficulty - stems from doing everything at once.Īt its best, Resogun demands a certain prescience. Not only must you evade waves of projectiles, but target enemies, monitor dangers from both sides of the screen and collect humans and deliver them to safety. And yet, the overall experience is sometimes richer and more complex. Resogun is more forgiving than a traditional bullet hell, it's patterns less intricate and easier to evade. To survive, the player must memorize the intricate bullet patterns and carefully thread a craft through holes sometimes only a couple pixels wide. The other inspiration is a lesser-known sub-genre called bullet hell, niche shooters in which hundreds, sometimes thousands of projectiles that inflict instant death gradually cover the screen. In frantic moments, collecting humans off the ground and tossing them into their safety zone felt like delivering a slam dunk - not the first thing I associate with the retro shooter genre, but a welcome addition nonetheless. It's just enough complexity to make the Defender homage feel new. Resogun adds a twist: you must first 'unlock' the humans by exterminating a special set of enemies before collecting the living cargo and delivering it to one of two goals.

As a spaceship, you protect humans from waves of enemies that encroach from both the left and right side of the screen. If you remember losing quarters to the local arcade, you will recognize Resogun's Defender-like structure.

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