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Metagalactic Llamas: Battle at the Edge of Time

Moby ID: 63302
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The Metallamas and Zzyaxians are at war with each other with the Zzyaxians attempting to overtake the Metallama's galaxy. The Zzyaxians have set their sights on taking over a small outpost called OP/37 on the rim of the galaxy to launch their attack. Problem is there are just three Metallamas and with no help nearby it is up to them to thwart the attack taking it in turns to defend the outpost. The Zzyaxians have sent Cyborg Arachnid Mutants who will use their threads to slide down into the outpost and destroy the Llamas.

You play as the Llama who can fire a bolt at a 45 degree angle upwards. You must try to hit each Mutant directly, if you hit their thread then they will drop down to the floor, turn into a Weeviloid and scurry towards the Llama. If you don't hit a Mutant or it's thread then they will drop to the floor at a certain point and once again scurry towards you as a Weeviloid. Each bolt fired can bounce of the ceiling and walls though so if you fail to hit the Mutant sliding down you can still kill the Weeviloid. One touch from a Weeviloid though and you lose one of your three Llama's. There are 32 levels to complete and you must kill 18 Mutants/Weeviloids a level to move on to the next.

Metagalactic Llamas: Battle at the Edge of Time is played on one screen with a side view. The game is a 1 or 2 player game where each player takes it in turn after a life is lost. You have the option to start on any level but the higher the level the more Mutants that slide down. As well as the main playing area you can see your score, lives and quota. You use a joystick to play.

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Average score: 77% (based on 2 ratings)

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Average score: 2.6 out of 5 (based on 5 ratings with 1 reviews)

Very fun until you learn how to nail every spider without skill

The Good
This game has excellent sound, even if only a few effects are being used. The action is great and frantic when your llama runs around trying to shoot the spiders as they drop and crawl towards you. It takes a while to master the ricocheting laser spittle from the llama you control. And until you realise you can lower and raise the ceiling to alter the path of your llama laser loogies, it's difficult to survive for many waves.

The Bad
Once you figure out that there's a specific angle that more or less gets you a 100% kill rate the game gets dull. And that's a shame. There's also no development, just more of the same spiders. You can choose the level to start at. At the maximum level, you're attacked by so many spider that you'll die in 2 seconds.

The Bottom Line
Very fun for a short while. With a little better balancing it could have been fun for a longer time than it is now.

VIC-20 · by pistolhamster (39) · 2025

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Game added by FatherJack.

Amiga added by piltdown_man. Antstream added by firefang9212. VIC-20 added by Игги Друге.

Game added February 3, 2014. Last modified January 26, 2025.