I was itching to play a frantic 2D shooter, something like Metal Slug, these past few days and became a bit obsessed with Alien Hominid. I had read about the game somewhere before, but didn’t really give it much thought until a few nights ago. After playing the flash verison of the game, I was hooked. I had to have it.

After about four or five phone calls to various game stores and a lot of searching online, I finally located a store somewhat close to my house that I could get it from. Sure, I could have ordered it online, but I wanted to play it now. The bad news: the store didn’t have any new copies. The good news: I got a used copy for $17 instead of paying $30 for a new copy.

So what is Alien Hominid? It’s a 2d side-scrolling shooter where there are countless enemies and a bunch of mini-bosses and bosses. It may seem like repetitive button mashing, but there’s a lot of variety in the game including a few different types of weapon upgrades to choose from as well as mini-bosses and bosses which require some thinking to beat (kind of like the bosses in Megaman). My favorite boss so far is the one with the vulnerable point at his head, but you wouldn’t know it unless you read the sign that says “Warning! Do not shoot the head!” written on the chess of that boss-robot.

What made me buy this game instead of any other 2d shooter was that Alien Hominid wasn’t made by some giant, well-known game developer. It was independently developed by a few guys who really just liked making the game. The detailed backgrounds, including humorous graffiti on the walls, the death animations, all the little things, proved that these people really cared about the game.

I’d recommend this to anyone who likes Metal Slug, or anyone who has always wanted to jump on top of an FBI officer’s shoulder’s, force him to run around blindly, and then bite off his head in front of his comrades.

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