The microscopic nano cosmos becomes your battleground on Wii U, as Shin’en Multimedia deliver through Nintendo eShop.This twin-stick shooter will immediately recall memories of Super Stardust HD on PlayStation 3 as well as Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved which hit Xbox Live Arcade, for those that have encountered either title. The general gist here is that the player must neutralise a deadly Nanostray virus, traversing micro-organisms known as cells to do so.The terrain across these varies, with four clusters (Epsilon, Zeta, Omicron and Sigma) further dividing themselves across sixteen separate levels.

Each cell has their own gravitational pull, akin to Super Mario Galaxy, with the player steering their ship across all sides of their surface as they hunt out bugs to eliminate.Along the way, you’ll be able to nab pickups, either increasing your score or enhancing your weaponry. You can acquire up to four satellites for your ship, each granting an additional gun that improves the breadth of damage you can deal. This soon becomes problematic, however, with the screen soon ablaze with laser shots firing everywhere, which, in places, can quickly become confusing with enemies blasting pink shots back in your direction.When not playing off-screen with the Wii U GamePad, you can tap the screen to bring up a menu that enables you to choose the direction in which your satellites aim.

Such customisable use of your standard weapons is a great addition, that is if you can afford to divert your attention away from the chaos on-screen.Sub-weapons grant further opportunity to gain the upper hand, diversifying the way in which you attack. These are coloured, and incorporate energy lashes or homing multi-lasers.With no pre-set choices, the difficulty across the game is as rampant as the organisms you battle across. You can move from a relatively straightforward level to another, more cluttered. It isn’t a game breaker but certainly an aspect that could easily begin to frustrate.The level exit will appear once you’ve expunged over 90% of the critters crawling around, yet completely purifying cells will yield greater reward and increase your chances of achieving those elusive high scores.

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You’ll have to be quick though, as once the exit has opened a countdown timer begins and you have just 30 seconds to make your way across to it before it closes.Bosses themselves, which take up four of the sixteen levels that the game offers, are basic and uninspired. The player required to target weak spots, whilst dodging behind terrain to take cover from incoming projectiles. These disappointingly prove far less of a challenge than the rest of the core game.Between stages you visit the Nano Shop, purchasing upgrades such as the Credit Doubler, additional Satellites, sub-weaponry, or a Nano Shield that briefly protects you from harm. These ease your progression through the game, as long as you spend wisely.Online rankings across all modes are a welcome addition for those with a competitive edge, with your remaining life, hit accuracy and the time left on the clock once you arrive at the exit providing opportunities to gain bonus points.Beyond the single-player campaign, there is a two-player co-operative mode that allows one player to use the Wii U Pro Controller with the TV whilst the other makes separate use of the Wii U GamePad.

Arcade Mode is also available, allowing you to select any individual level to play, with Missions providing further goals, such as completing an entire cluster without losing a life, for you to elongate your play time.Visually, is an astounding spectacle, and it is hard to decry boasts from the developer that the game runs at 60 frames per second. The presentation is smooth, with enemies and environments remaining continually well varied and vibrant.However, beyond its pyrotechnics sadly proves an uninspired experience that fails to elevate itself above others within the genre. Way of the samurai 2 ps2. Which is surprising, considering the usually creative output from Shin’en Multimedia.

There’s something especially shiny about Shin’en. Every game this studio puts out is so visually polished and beautiful – you just can’t look away from the graphics they’ve been able to achieve on Nintendo’s Wii and 3DS in titles like,. And now, with the Wii U’s high-definition capability in play, Shin’en’s latest release is their shiniest yet.Nano Assault Neo is an all-new sequel to the original Nano Assault, an under-the-radar hit that launched for the 3DS roughly one year ago. Like that first game, Neo once again puts you in the role of a pilot who’s been shrunken down to fly inside a human body. And, once there, it’s up to you to cleanse a series of cells from infection – by wildly blasting anything that moves to pieces with an overwhelmingly violent arsenal of lasers!

File: File:This game is a visual spectacle. Truly, wonderfully stunning.Yes, is a fast-paced twin-stick shooter that fans of that genre will adore. But it’s not just that – because its levels are free-floating 3D cells that you can travel across in any direction. Just like Super Mario Galaxy’s hovering planetoids, you can move all around these three-dimensional arenas hunting down viruses and creeping bacteria – using the GamePad’s left stick to move, and its right stick to aim your continuous laser blasts independently.It’s intense, gorgeous fun. You’re spinning around the surfaces of these cells slinging shots every which way, grabbing power-ups and credits to spend in the upgrade shop, trying to dodge all of the incoming fire these foes are sending your way at the same time – and it’s all playing out with such breathtaking visual quality that you might just need to stop and catch your breath for a minute after each level ends. Nano Assault Neo also includes bonus levels that play out like a cross between Star Fox 64’s tunnels, F-Zero GX’s hovercraft handling and Sonic the Hedgehog 2’s half-pipes, and every set of four stages is capped off with a boss battle at the end. There are leaderboards for sharing your high scores with the rest of the world and a two-player mode that lets a friend get into the action along with you.

There’s the ability to play it all off the TV on just the GamePad screen if you choose, and separate Arcade and Survival modes to attack too. That’s quite a few features for a launch day download, and they round out what is a very attractive package for just 10 dollars.If there’s any drawback here, it’s in overall length – this is the kind of game that encourages replaying its set of stages again and again to go for higher scores, but that also means there aren’t a ton of levels total. Four sets of four stages apiece, for 16 total. 20, if you want to count the bonus levels used half-way through each quartet. Still, for just $9.99, getting that number of levels is getting more than your money’s worth.THE VERDICTShin’en is a studio that’s been steadily improving its efforts on Nintendo systems over the past several years. Over a decade, even, as you can trace this latest game’s roots all the way back to on the Game Boy Advance.

Nano Assault Neo is their boldest, more beautiful shooter yet, and Wii U owners absolutely shouldn’t miss out on its shiny twin-stick shooting. By Lucas Thomas - he gave it a 9/10Here are my first impressions:This is a more tactical version of Geometry Wars. The controls uses the dual analog sticks just like Geometry Wars, the left stick moves your ship and the right stick shoots in the direction you are pointing. You can use the Classic Controller, Wiimote + Nunchuck, Wii Pad, and Pro Controller. I have only played it on my pad and it works great. No TV is needed. There is co-op and a leader board.

The music is techno as you’d expect from an arcade shooter like this.The premise of this game is you are a micro-robot flying on organic cells killing all the microbes attacking it. After you kill a number of the microbes, a portal opens that takes you to the next level, or cell. You spend most the level going through waves of small enemies that get leveled in one shot. However, among them are multiple large enemies that take more shots to kill. These large enemies are pretty cool. Some look like centipedes, some dig into the ground, and others are invisible. Most the enemies can shoot back at you so watch out.

Luckily your ship can be upgraded and can typically take three hits before you lose a life. After a few levels, you fight a boss who, after beating, unlocks the next set of levels.This game is hopelessly addicting just like Geometry Wars, but its few distinctions make it much deeper. Unlike Geometry Wars, there are several different levels. These levels have dips and bumps where you can take cover or get trapped. Also the levels are highly detailed and remind me a lot of the cell animations from my micro-biology class. It looks really cool.

The gameplay does get intense, and spinning around a sphere-shaped cell can make you feel a little dizzy, which is awesome.Co-op is a well-received addition and I would recommend this game to anyone who can handle the intensity.I give it a an 8.7.