Ubermosh:Omega

Genre: 2-Stick Shooter

Players: 1

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Review:

Ubermosh:Omega is a 2-Stick Shooter originally released on PC in 2019 and ported to multiple platforms in 2020, including Nintendo Switch. This is a simple, fast-paced game that has players taking one of a half-dozen or so characters, each with their own assortment of two selectable traits or attacks, and using massive amount of projectiles and/or melee weapons to fend off hordes of enemies.

Yeah, so about all that. Visually, this game looks like a huge mess. Everything here – the messy background, the piles of corpses, the bullets, and the hordes of attacking enemies, all overlap in one big blurry mess that make it hard to distinguish anything that’s going on here, with a jumpy camera adding to this. All of this is backed by music that just seems like a wall of noise intended to distract players. To say I found the presentation here to be off-putting would be an understatement.

As for the gameplay… jeez, did you even read the last paragraph? This game is so visually hard to parse, I had no idea what I was doing. There seems little skill at all involved here, just trying to see what counts for enemy attacks and trying to avoid them while spamming the attack button(s?). Your own attacks are so plentiful, and generally go in so many directions at once, that the concept of “aiming” here just seems laughable.

I don’t doubt that there’s someone out there who finds the messy, ugly, ungainly mess that is Ubermosh:Omega to be a huge adrenaline rush. But for me, this game was just a dizzying train wreck of unintelligible madness. I do not recommend it.

tl;dr – Ubermosh:Omega is a 2-Stick Shooter that has so much junk going on on-screen that it becomes nearly impossible to parse, and attacks seem to cover such a wide area that things like “aiming” seem largely pointless. There are so many good games in this genre on the Nintendo Switch, please don’t buy this one.

Grade: F

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This game has been nominated for one or more of eShopperReviews 2020 Game Awards:

Runner-Up: Worst Game

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