Lazy Galaxy Rebel Story

Genre: Shmup

Players: 1-2 Co-Op (Local)

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Review:

Lazy Galaxy Rebel Story is a Shmup released on the PC, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch in 2018. Players take the role of a robot awakening from years offline to take up arms in a war with octopus aliens that started nearly a century before its digital slumber, rescuing comrades in arms along the way.

This game uses a pixel art style of graphics that’s decent but not especially noteworthy, and pairs it with a soundtrack that’s actually pretty good although the songs vary wildly from electric guitar-heavy themes that seem quite fitting to this sort of game, to songs that sound oddly chill and relaxed for this sort of shooty action.

As for the gameplay itself, what’s here is generally good, and the game even tries a few interesting things, although very little of what it tries seems to congeal into any cohesive identity. There are Roguelike elements, for example, but they\re not very strong Roguelike elements, and they ultimately just result in levels with somewhat randomized enemies so you can’t do the standard Shmup thing of perfecting a run through a level. There are upgrades and allies to recruit, but you seem to have little control over these, and they aren’t different enough that you feel like playing through a level with one ally is much different than playing with another. You can also change your formation, but you don’t have as much control over this formation as you do in other Shmups where maneuvering your formation is vital to effective play.

There’s nothing bad about Lazy Galaxy – it’s a perfectly decent entry in the Shmup genre. But it’s also a mostly forgettable one. Fans of the genre may find this game to be worth a try, but with so many other truly great Shmups on the Nintendo Switch, it’s hard to recommend this one over the competition.

tl;dr – Lazy Galaxy Rebel Story is a Shmup that has you playing as a robot rescuing allies in a war with octopus aliens. This is a decent Shmup, but none of its ideas really amounts to much, and as a result it’s fairly forgettable.

Grade: C

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