No. of Reviews: 20
Review 1
Purchased!
Overated to the extreme. Not worth it even at a sale price.
Review 2
Purchased!
This is a pretty bullet hell game. It's ok, nothing special. The game works well
and the art alone is worth a few dollars, but I just did not have all that much
fun with it.
Review 3
Purchased!
I'm sorry, but Zenzinenizenezineinzeinzeinzizenzic doesn't work.I love me a nice
psychedelic twin-stick shooter, but the presentation needs to do more than be
stylish, it needs to communicate and while games are usually not black-on-white
for reason, the color scheme isn't why all the visual information gets cluttered
and incomprehensible. Bullets and Enemies are differentiated only by level of
detail, and the draw order means your targets get lost in the shuffle
constantly. Not to mention the low-key aesthetics of your own ship and frankly
lifeless sound design mean you might not even know if you're shooting at all.
There are germs of good ideas in here. The triggers managing your speed and
letting you trade power for speed, or accuracy for fire-rate are great ideas and
the rogue-like dungeon aspect has potential, but it's all for naught because the
elemental gameplay is rife with concepts that are there for their own sake. (Not
to mention my personal white whale of *terrible* menus.) There's no focus or
thrust to it, and that's just a shame because there's visibly some real effort
to do something unique here. ★☆☆
Review 4
Purchased!
This is such a good shooter. Really worth the buy.
- The art style is so simple, and yet, it's so satisfying to the eyes. I
personally saw most shooters as carbon copies of others, mainly because they're
all revolved around space, high tech warfare gadgets, and monsters, but this is
a chainbreaker. I mean, it's just squares, but dude, it's these squares man,
these squares are amazing.
- The music has really good beats, really good electronic-styled music. I don't
know the exact genre to call it, but I'm sure you might know what I'm talking
about. The tracks go along great with the stages, so it won't distract you, in
fact, it helps focus.
- The gameplay, oh the gameplay. You have the basic "hold _ to shoot", but you
also have the ability to select two out of six special abilities, such as
lazers, a swarm of heat seeking missiles, and even a black hole generator. When
you defeat an enemy, it'll drop pellets to fill energy, and when you stop
shooting, you'll send out a shockwave that vacuums 'em up to use right away. Oh,
and you better memorize what key buys a life back, you'll most likely press that
at least a few times.
...Now, there are some cons that'll hopefully be patched up. First off, there is
a bug in regular mode's level 3. If you were to buy a life back right as you're
exiting the bonus stage, you might end up unable to see what's going on, as your
screen would just show up blank.
Another thing that struck me as odd was something about the macro mode. Not sure
if this was intended or not, but there isn't a way to save progress. Judging by
the time limit before boss fights, this might be intended to be unable to save.
Oh well, Macro is still great.
Dude, why are you still reading this? If you've got the dough for this game, go
ahead and snag it already.
Review 5
Purchased!
My First Impressions Gameplay Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp_HjZtL0zw
I was Pleasantly suprised by this new Indie twin-stick style shooter! This game
takes my new preferred twin stick blaster even above other highly regarded games
like Super Stardust and Geometry Wars! This little game is better!
Its a ton of fun and very, very addictive. It offers local high scores and
online high scores to compete against.
It is very fluid, responsive, and requires your full attention to avoid death
and losing one of your lives.
The level progession offers bonus rounds and different waves and always seems to
throw something new at you to keep you on your feet. This makes the game very
fun, very exciting, and the music flows well with the game as well.
But here is where I think this game takes the biggest step and puts itself above
other great highly regarded twin stick shooters. This game offers an open world
almost rogue-style mode where you get to move and explore a big open world while
blaasting away all the baddies and collecting power ups, battling bosses etc. In
this mode, you can even go to "stores" and use your score as money to purchase
all kinds of different power ups etc. Awesome, awesome fun, and makes this game
stand above the rest. I've never seen another twin-stick arcade shooter like
this do anything like that!
Brilliant game design, and for all the reasons above.. Zenzizenzic is my
favorite Steam game of 2015 so far!
My score.. 93% (out of 100) Pretty impressive score and game especially
considering its still in 'early access'. Oh... how we wish all early access
games on Steam were this good don't we?
Easily worth your money, ..It's a shame I'm giving this game it's first review 4
days after its Steam launch. ..If you are a fan of Geometry Wars or Super
Stardust or even a rogue-like RPG fan, you're missing out on a quiet little
Indie gem if you pass this game by!
Review 6
Purchased!
ITS LIKE SMASHING YOUR FACE INTO A WALL REAPEATEDLY FOR HOURS.
Review 8
Purchased!
Beauty and the Beast, in a single game.
8 hours and still struggling with level one. also, having fun. tons of it.
might look shallow at first, but that's a totally wrong impression.
hard to master, very, very enjoyable game play.
explosions are deep, satisfying and somewhat chilling...
i love my zenzic copy.
Review 9
Purchased!
The visuals and music are what this game sells on.
I haven't played it much considering that I'm refunding it during the window,
but I wasn't really sold by the gameplay.
Me and my hitbox didn't get along, and I wished the game had more weapon
variation. It has variation in superweapons, but no real variation in basic
shots, excluding leveling them up and down. From what I saw from the roguelike
mode, it didn't add what depth I was hoping for.
If you reaaaaally like shoot'em'ups, bullet hells, and score attacking, you
might like this game more, but I don't really recommend it.
Review 10
Purchased!
Zenzizenzic is a beautiful game. All these minimalist shapes dancing across the
screen.. Backgrounds, enemies, bullets, everything just looks so awesome. The
gameplay's great too, takes the basics of bullet hell + twin stick madness and
adds much more to it with its mezmorizing patterns, strategic powerups, and
daunting roguelike mode, all while listening to a kick-*ss soundtrack by bignic
(EDIT: Heck, bignic's been problematic since 2022 :c Just thought I'd make that
disclaimer). Woah. If you're into Touhou, Geometry Wars, or anything remotely
similar to Zenzizenzic, go and give it a try.
Review 11
Purchased!
Twin-stick bullet-hell with an artistic twist.
Starts off fairly easily, allowing you to adjust to the hypnotic geometric art
style whilst simultaneously getting pumped to the tight soundtrack. Reminds me
of 'Every Extend Extra' (on the PSP), which shares similar traits despite being
excuted quite differently.
There is a faily tough difficulty curve after the 1st two levels. Phew ...
things get tough. However, 'getting better' never feels like it is out of reach.
The macro mode is also pretty good. Fleshes out the overall game a bit more,
giving you a more rounded experience instead of just vertical-scrolling
shooting.
It's simple; fun to play and watch; and overall atmosphere is pretty unique for
this often over-saturated genre.
Review 12
Purchased!
This is probably easily one of the best bullethell games I've ever played. The
artstyle lends itself well to indentifying everything easily and the difference
in playstyles between the two modes makes for interesting gameplay changes. Lots
of variety, lots of fun, lots of bullets.
Review 13
Purchased!
good
Review 14
Purchased!
Zenzizenzic is as insane as it's name is un-pronouncable.
Review 15
Purchased!
Anybody else play a game specifically to hear the music?
Because that's this game for me.
Seriously though, the music is top-notch, the gameplay is fast-paced and
difficult, the aesthetics are beautiful. An overall solid twin-stick bullet
hell.
Review 16
Purchased!
Great bullet hell game, very difficult and has good music. Plenty of content
despite appearing minimalist.
Review 17
Purchased!
Brutal.
10/10
Review 18
Purchased!
Zenzizenic is a pixel perfect bullet hell. Each stage you play is pretty much a
pixel perfect dodge or die dare with a kicking soundtrack. If you're up for a
epic challange give this a go. Otherwise, if you dont think you can take the
heat stay the hell away!
Review 19
Purchased!
The game costs 10 eur, so, with a discount of 90% i tought i might give it a try
for 1 eur, i tought, it will be worth at least 1 eur....i was wrong....
I asked (and already obtained, thanks Valve) a refund for this game, so, dunno
if this review will stay or maybe it will appear like if i got this game as
free, it could happens when you ask a refund cause you no more own the game,
anyway, i not feel to recommend this "game?!" to anyone, i'm sorry....
Review 20
Purchased!
Great Bullet Hell, nice soundtrack. interesting level design. The real gem is
the Rogue-like portion. It's an open-world with a countdown timer for boss
spawns. The point is to collect upgrades to be able to take down the boss before
it spawns. everything in the game feels smooth, runs great. the movement without
a controller is a bit clunky, which is not fun in a BH, but overall a great
game.
