![]() ![]() Initially, though, it’s all about the speed, with the other features taking several more levels before you’ll need to notice and take advantage of them. Naturally you’ll want to fly straight through them and this is where Polybius begins.Įach gate is a speed boost, making the ship both fly and shoot faster, plus bumping up the bonus multiplier and even giving a 1/3-of-a-second shield of invulnerability. The only instruction is “Do what comes naturally,” and if you’ve played a game in your life then that means “hold the fire button and steer.” The first level object you see is a couple of gently curved ox horns rising straight up from the flat surface, set just far enough to comfortably fly through, right in the path of the ship. An x-winged fighter soars just above a psychedelic checkerboard surface, height and speed locked in so you only need to concern yourself with lateral movement, with enemies and level elements dropping into place in the distance. The plot of Polybius is completely nonexistent, replaced with a setting and rules you learn as you go. ![]() ![]() When Llamasoft’s Jeff Minter decided to create something new based on the myth of the brain-altering arcade game of the ’80s, he decided its feel-bad nature was an aspect that could be abandoned, and instead created a trippy, insane shooter that would be a frantic white-knuckle ride if it wasn’t near-paradoxically relaxing and uplifting. Yes, great, Orpheus screwed himself by looking back on the way out of Hades and losing Eurydice forever, but maybe not every story built on that template has to end the same way? The tales of the past are an example, not a narrative prison, and that holds true for urban legends like Polybius as well. ![]()
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