When you first play it, Hypership Out of Control feels like an attempt to capture some of the classic appeal of oldshcool shoot-em-ups. After your first round or two, you’ll realize that it’s altogether different, and new. For one, there are no enemies that shoot at you, but waves of obstacles to dodge as your ship travels faster and faster. The goal of the game is not to finish, but to garner the highest score you can. In fact, finishing all of the waves will cycle you right back to the beginning where you can continue scoring. Points are gained by destroying obstacles, and collecting coins. The more coins you collect, the higher your score multiplier, and the faster you fly (up to a limit). Fast and accurate reflexes are definitely required for this game.
Relative touch, where your ship moves in relation to your touch, is the hands-down preferred method of controlling shmups, and Hypership’s is in par with the best. This is especially important for scoring, since you’ll need to sweep up fields of coins as efficiently as possible.
Retro 8-bit graphics suit the old-school aesthetics of the game, with an exception of some of the titles. They’re not excessively detailed like a lot of the SNES-era shooters, but such detail would be distracting and hard to follow when your ship reaches higher speeds.
As is fitting for a game of this style, Hypership has a great 8-bit chiptune soundtrack, and the accompanying bleeps, bloops, and white-noise explosions. My personal preference was to turn the sound effects down by a few notches, since your ship’s laser sound can get pretty annoying.
The basic amount of waves can be flown through in a relatively short amount of time, but the 4 different gameplay modes and leaderboard chasing will keep things fresh for some time. There’s the Normal mode, the 1-life Hardcore mode, a mode where your coins steadily countdown and ends when you reach zero, and a Superspeed mode where your top speed is far higher than in previous modes. If that isn’t enough, then you can enable Reverse mode, and play everything backwards.
Hypership Out of Control combines oldschool shmup aesthetics, with blisteringly fast gameplay.
App: Hypership Out of Control $0.99 (Universal)
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