The flash game reviews were a bit scarce lately but Amorphous is surely making up for the lack of games that have been posted. Guys running around with oversize swords are usually only known from Japanese roleplaying games but it is different this time.

Amorphous is a survival game. The player has to survive. That’s the main objective. It does not really matter if he has to survive a certain time or just as long as he can, it is all about survival. But not the usual man vs man survival. It’s the player with his huge sword against vicious amorphous creatures like the blue springing ones or the green we like to merge and become bigger creatures.

The player can move the character by moving the mouse in that direction. A click on the left mouse button performs a swing, somewhat slow, with the sword that can hurt or even terminate creatures that it hits.

The game uses several kind of motivational elements like awards, rewards and creatures that only appear after a certain time has passed. It’s against the dummy creatures in the beginning and the tougher bastards later on.

Talking about game modes. You got a nice practice mode where you can select the type of creatures that should appear. you can only select those that you have already seen in the game. Then you got the terminate x creatures mode and the survive as long as you can mode.

It’s a nice game that’s fun to play.

The Graveyard is more a beautiful melancholic piece of art than it is a game. The player walks an old grandma from the cemetery gates to a bench at the chapel. The old lady can site down after the long strenuous walk and listen to a song.

After that she can walk back to where she came from to leave the cemetery again. Graphics are beautiful and the fragile state of the old lady will most likely remind the player of a familiar face that he knows.

The controls are the arrow keys to walk and turn around, There is no need for additional controls. The free version of The Graveyard which is available for PC and Macintosh is dubbed trial. The full version can be purchased for $5 but it only adds one feature to the game: Death.

That’s pretty scary in itself, don’t you think? The Graveyard is poetry in motion.

More bullets! I hear you cry! Give us more bullets! You seem to be liking those crazed Japanese shoot’em up games as much as I do so, here it is: Another game called Eden’s Aegis that increases the Bullets Per Inch count even further.

It’s from the developers who created the excellent Blue Wish Resurrection Plus which I covered a few days ago.

It uses the same technique and menus but the gameplay is different. You fly with an anime character around instead of a space ship which makes identification a bit more complicated. The game offers the same three difficulty levels Heaven, Normal and Hell with Normal being tough and Hell very very tough.

The controls are the usual arrow keys for moving the character, Z for shooting and X for smart bombing the hell out of the enemies. The character is slower while shooting and moves faster without shooting which is great for some last second escapes.

Defeating a big enemey ship will also remove its bullets from the screen which is a very important tactic throughout the game. The player can take several hits before loosing a life which is another way to make the game a tad easier. It seems that the game is offering unlimited continues as well.

A difference is that you restart the complete level when using the Continue option in the game. My tip: Don’t try hell unless you are a master of the art. I have not seen a game that throws more bullets at the player, incredible.

Another day, another hardcore Japanese shoot’em up game. This one is actually a bit easier than yesterday’s Urban Uprising; Not because the bpi, bullets per inch, value is anything less. To the contrary, Blue Wish Resurrection Plus has one of the highest bullet count in the genre in my opinion.

The good thing is that the player’s ship has a shield that can take a few hits before the life is lost. That’s a great concept and absolutely needed in this game. The game has all the elements that are the ingredients of classic great shoot’em up games.

It offers ship selection at the beginning, power ups, smart bombs, massive amounts of enemies, even more bullets and boss ships that are hard to beat. Add nice graphics, sounds, stage selection and continues to the picture and you got a serious contender for game of the month.

The game has three difficulty levels ranging from Heaven (slow, not that challenging) to normal and finally Hell. And Hell is definitely hell. It’s fast, you have so many bullets on your screen it is sometimes hard to see the background image at all because of the bullets.

If you ship gets hit you loose shield which has the great side effect that all bullets on the screen disappear. The same happens when you defeat a bigger enemy ship. It’s therefor a viable tactic to defeat the big ships first even if the little suckers fly all around.

Blue Wish Resurrection Plus is a fantastic game, go grab it right now and let me know how far you make it in hell. Before I forget, the bullets that you see in the screenshots are nowhere near the bullets that you will face in the game. It was just difficulty to create screenshots. Expect double and triple amounts of bullets.