Pros:
- Wonderful old-school palette and audio treatment
- Complex designed system of table-top-like attributes and variety of upgrades
- Engaging and only sometimes aggravatingly challenging
Cons:
- Sometimes aggravatingly challenging
- Lack of checkpoints
- Difficulty ramps in steps
Here & There:
The best I've managed so far is to handily beat the green variants. Some starts to runs go south real quick and others don't, depending heavily on the drops and enemy spawns in the middle of taking an airfield. I got to a point where I was easily dispatching greens and then the first reddish tank I saw utterly ruined me, freaking my gourd 10 ways from Sunday. I did get frustrated sometimes especially when the CPU got some crucial critical hits while I flailed away in hopes of surviving their attack, but this is genuinely the most engaging game I've played this jam. The sound is great, the UI is intuitive and nice, and it says things like 3+2D4 which I have a soft spot for. I'm really into it and I'm looking forward to progressing quite a bit. Really the only issues are small quality-of-life things so I'd say you ought to be proud of this, it's pretty great!