8/10
Mar 12, 2018·✓ Recommended
Beat·GBA
A surprisingly good beat-em-up, Omega Factor follows the broad strokes of the plotline from the Astro Boy anime, a show about a young boy who dies and is then rebuilt as Astro, a nuclear-powered superhero robot. The spritework is pleasingly colourful, and the variety of challenges is genuinely fun! Each level follows a different arc from the show, and as you progress you grow Astro's Omega Factor, gaining upgrade points for his abilities. There's also a stunning twist halfway through the narrative that completely hit me by surprise, and is absolutely worth playing just to see it play out.
Check out my full review! The Almighty Backlog, review #13:
https://thealmightybacklog.wordpress.com/2018/03/26/astro-boy-omega-factor/
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