Metagalactic Llamas: Battle at the Edge of Time
VIC-20 version
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.
by pistolhamster (39) on January 6, 2025