![]() ![]() And for that it offers quite a few good things. The interesting in it is the extremly low price due the constant 90%-off price label, which puts it into the bellow 50 cents category. Take a look at the game running below.Larva Mortus is a typical example of a isometric budget shooter with semi-cartoonish graphics. Saying, "You're welcome to carry on for as long as you can, but give us $20 and it'll be lots more fun," is a lot more likely to get my cash. Obviously this ultimately limits your ability to progress, but it's a whole world better than having it cut you off and demand your money. The demo is a generous one, offering you unlimited play, but cutting off your ability to level up after about an hour's play. Oh, and one fantastic detail: as your playing, seemingly at random, these incredibly spooky faces appear on the screen, accompanied by peculiar noises. There's a story here too, told in Flash-style static cartoons, which has you go all around the world monster hunting. The randomly generated levels are very, very simple, not more than a few square rooms attached to each other, but the variety in enemies keeps things fresh, and every room has lots of barrels and coffins to explode and drops to gather. It frequently drops new, more powerful weapons, with excellent ammo balancing offering just enough but not so much that you can walk around with your finger on the mouse button. Taking a more calm approach than the wonderful Shadowgrounds, the RPG ideas are simple and unintrusive, but let you level your character as you see fit, mostly focusing on creating either a defensive or offensive approach. ![]() Below are thoughts and a video of game footage.įirst of all: this is great fun. It's available now from developer Rake In Grass's website, along with a demo to be found here. ![]() However, seeing that Larva Mortus is a retro-styled top-down shooter/RPG makes me much more interested. Seeing the phrase "action horror" immediately conjures the image of yet another third-person Resident Evil clone, and not a lot of enthusiasm. ![]()
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