Vyrzon by Minsoft Review - The Best Vectrex Game of 2023?

what's up YouTube uh 2023 honestly has been a really great year for the vectrex not only have we finally seen the release of hair Primera by Poly play but we also recently got an awesome release in the form of Cavern Rescue by Sean Kelly but what's really been interesting me the most this year is From a new developer a men's soft it's a fixed shooter arcade game that he's been working on for a long time and he's been detailing the entire process on his Twitter account and I've been following along for a little bit and it's been really interesting to see just how this game has progressed and finally after a couple weeks I have managed to get my hands on that game so I want to just take a look today at vierson by mensoft honestly this is a great looking package I think that's the very first thing that's going to pop out about this is just how awesome the package looks you know very typically with vectrex games these Homebrew developers try to kind of replicate the look of the original GCE packages and I love that you know I love the consistency that comes with that everything looks great on the Shelf together but sometimes you just need something like this where it's just this beautiful unique artwork on the front and you can tell it still does pay homage it has the uh the little grid on the back it's got the logo on the top and the bottom you know it looks like a vectrex game but it does do a lot of really cool unique things like this amazing piece of artwork on the front it honestly looks great you can see it's got the little ship down there it's got all the alien ships it almost looks hand-painted like it's just a very very good looking box art we do have the European vectrex logo on the side along with the logo for the game on the top and they are switched on the other side so you know you can kind of put it on the Shelf to your preference with how you want those logos to be which I think is really nice but yeah great looking box uh really nothing to complain about on the front and the back looks just as good you can see it's got the logos we have a little tag line here too take on the biggest threat to the universe since time began arcade action featuring 128 waves of enemies and eight asteroid belts and then I obviously have number 325 and the fact that this game has sold 325 copies this quickly is insane to me um but yeah with that out of the way how about we go ahead and take a look at what comes inside of this game so we do have all the typical vectrex stuff and the very first thing I want to start with is the manual and one thing you'll notice about this manual almost immediately is it's really big if we compare it with just a standard GCE vectrex manual it's very oversized compared to that which I like you know it lets you put more detail into it you can really see all the printing and stuff and it looks great and I really like this on the back we have credits and things because you know obviously making these games is not a one-man show even though minsoft developed it all these people helped him out along the way and I'm really glad that he showed them off you know down here at the bottom we have the people kind of responsible for the packaging and the printing and everything and then up at the top we have the people responsible for the actual programming um it's interesting to see that malbon worked on this given that he worked on a thematically somewhat similar game a little while ago a vector blade but this game's very unique on its own inside the manual we do see a lot of really cool stuff this is definitely a game I would recommend reading the manual before you play it just because I think that you're going to be kind of lost with some of the gameplay features if you don't um especially these pages I really like that you can see the enemy types and also how many hits it takes to kill them because that's one of the unique things about this game is that some of these enemies take quite a few hits to kill we also have some built-in memory here which is nice it's great when Homebrew games have that so we do have the top three scores with their sector reached and their difficulty setting the sector reach is also stored and then the furthest sector reached which is kind of cool and we do have some screen alignment stuff so you know if your vectrax is a little wonky you can kind of adjust it a little bit which is nice and then also just some more General gameplay tips which is always really appreciated moving on to the cartridge itself you know great looking cartridge definitely Sean Kelly Cart mine does have a little scratch on it but honestly it's not too big of a deal it still looks great the printing on it's amazing nice glossy finish logo looks great really not much to say about the cartridge but you know you can mess up a cartridge really easily and this one looks good um one thing though so here we have the overlay you know it comes in the very standard white container I think graphically this thing looks awesome I love the colors on it I love the way that on the back they kind of didn't put the little protective part right there so that you can actually see your ship fly through through the yellow part there's me hey everybody but it's a great looking overlay there's really no arguing that we got the controls down here the logo lots of good colors we do have the scoring power you know it's a very popular thing to do on vectrex's is uh put the stuff at the top so it doesn't show up on the screen but comparing it here with the Mindstorm one you will see it is ever so slightly taller I guess that maybe the tolerances were just a little bit off whenever this was being made and normally you know this is not an issue and even now it's not a super big issue but just something I wanted to point out is a whenever you place this onto the vectrix you know you get it lined up with the bottom spots and you get it lined up with the top spots to make sure it's secure in place mine kind of uh if I can get it in here um kind of pops out a little bit as you'll see I can press on it and push it in and it's kind of bouncing all over the place but this isn't too big of an issue the only real problem is you're going to get some light bleeding on the sides but I found if I push it enough it's fine all right guys now we're taking a look at the packaging how about we take a look at the actual game so for the most part you know I'll talk whenever I feel like it's relevant but I also just really want you all to see the gameplay and really take it in and I'll get my overall thoughts at the end so let's go ahead and boot this up [Music] I do have to say I love the colors on this overload [Music] I've always thought the backpack just looks great and green and this intro is awesome obviously all this stuff person you know I've done my best to make it show up decently on the camera but there's only so much you can do so uh here in the start menu we do just need to press button one we've got the option to either continue again do the new game and change the difficulty settings and then there is also a mini game which I have not unlocked yet so unfortunately I cannot show that to you all but you know a normal and I do want to say guys this game pretty difficult you know you really need to make sure you're paying attention where you're shooting the one shot at a time you know very Space Invaders like um [Music] everything spins also I'm trying to talk and play at the same time I'm sorry if my gameplay is not the best but ways they do kind of come down space in favor Style on the second wave the enemies just kind of stay up top [Music] UFO type things that come through comparison Road Space Invaders foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay hope you all enjoy the gameplay [Music] [Music] yeah you do get a little bit of a bonus [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] little enemies in the middle obviously take three units to kill [Music] [Laughter] and then every couple levels I know that the first time it happens is on sector three there's what's called a asteroid level so basically on these your goal is to fly as close to the Astros as possible to kind of build up your Shield once your Shield is built up you can basically uh get a free hit off of an enemy you have to I believe you have to build it all the way up on this level and it can be pretty difficult sorry about that guys but hopefully you know that gives you a pretty good idea of a game plan and as I mentioned earlier if I wanted to I could actually continue from there which is pretty it's pretty cool um but yeah guys overall I do think that this is a pretty good game and I definitely think that having backtracks if you're interested in things because probably the best game to come out this year off the backtracks guys it's graphically great the gameplay is amazing overall just the presentation of the box and the package and everything it's very nice guys so thanks for watching and I'll see you all next time

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Length: 12min 25sec (745 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 06 2023