Fantashooting

  

A new development studio has arrived on Android going by the rather unique name Sky Carpenter Digital Entertainment and their first release onto Google Play is a rather great looking dual-stick shooter called Fantashooting. The name comes from combining Fantasy and Shooting and has no affiliation with the soda that used to have weird commercials on TV.
Some titles don’t really need explaining. Some games just simply throw you into the action and give you the experience you’re after right out of the gate. Fantashooting is one of those games and, following its example, I’m going to get right on with the review.

Fantashooting is a ‘dual-joystick’ shooter where instead of joysticks you use the touchscreen. Most of you will know how this works, but for those that don’t be aware that there are two on-screen ‘joysticks’ that you move around by touching the screen. One joystick moves the character and the other shoots a weapon or throws a magic spell.

Shooting at what and magic spells at who? Well, quite simply, you’re killing monsters. A lot of them. Fantashooting is simply a wave survival game where you aim to kill as many monsters as you can before being killed yourself. The more you kill, the more money and points you get. Some of you may have guessed this already – the money and points can be spent on upgrading your character.

Upgrades consist of faster movement, faster shooting, a better lock-on ability and so on. There’s quite a lot to unlock within the game as a whole. A large selection of characters and levels are all here for you to get to grips with but my main issue was that it got very repetitive very quickly.

In Fantashooting, you will be one of the apprentices at Fantasy Hero Institute who is about to take his final test of Mori. Surrounding the Institute of Mori are a wide range of enemies that will continuously come at you and to pass this test, you must survive as long as possible. Luckily you are packing some serious weaponry and the ability to upgrade weapons on the fly.
 As a prerequisite for graduation, apprentices at Fantasy Hero Institute must survive the final test of Mori. Around the Mori Institute are scary monsters, magic bombs, goblins, insects, piranhas, I’ll scare myself if I go any further! If you dare, follow the apprentices into the mysterious and unpredictable forrest and help them survive the trials of the forest allowing them to graduate! Game Features:?3D dual stick shooter game.?A light-hearted action game - bang ~ bang ~ bang, spray ~ spray ~ spray.?A wealth of weapons - enjoy the wacky weapons that fall serendipitously from the sky and entertain you on your journey!?Interactive environment - Seemingly harmless objects will cause unexpected interference or damage.?Severe Weather - Abrupt changes in weather conditions bring new challenges to each level.?Powerful Runes - Carry up to three runes to summon magical creatures who can quickly defuse critical situations.

Description:

-Fantashooting is a dual-stick shooting game of fantastic world.

-Beautiful characters and great effects of weapons.
-Real time upgrade your weapon in battle.
-Inexplicable Monster Madness.
-Thrilling shooting experience.
-Various and funny Items.
-Friendly game interface.


FEATURES:
3D & 360 degree third person shooting game!
Finger-friendly game control with a standard dual-joystick!
Choose a character to play with unique skills from two main classes: Mage & Shooter!
Meet tons of monsters and fantastic boss fights during your adventure!
Equip your favorite passive skills and build your unique character!
High AI monsters! Maybe there is someone controlling them?

Game Features:
★ 3D dual stick shooter game.
★ A light-hearted action game - bang ~ bang ~ bang, spray ~ spray ~ spray.
★ Play as a wizard or a shooter.  Your choice!
★ Choose your favorite abilities for each character and train them to perfection!
★ Each Character has its own unique skill.  Challenge yourself by adeptly mastering them all!
★ A variety of characters for the selection. Pick the wizard or shooter as you please.
★ A wealth of weapons - enjoy the wacky weapons that fall serendipitously from the sky and entertain you on your journey!
★ Interactive environment - Seemingly harmless objects will cause unexpected interference or damage.
★ Severe Weather - Abrupt changes in weather conditions bring new challenges to each level.
★ Powerful Runes - Carry up to three runes to summon magical creatures who can quickly defuse critical situations.
★ Inexplicable Monster Madness - Keep a close eye on monsters as some will suddenly inflict damage, spray you with gold coins, or simply go crazy!
★ Incredible game graphics.

Although each character has their own special ability, they all pretty much play the same. Wizard or hunter, they all shoot the enemy in the same manner and there’s no real skill involved. Get close enough to the enemy so that your lock-on activates yet stay far enough away so that you don’t get it hit. Pretty simple.

As well as characters to unlock, there are levels too, but they suffer from the same problem. In the first level, you battle slimes and then in the second you unlock you’ll fight pumpkins. The only thing that changes is the models and textures you fight. Attack patterns all remain the same and no change in strategy is required.

It’s also annoying that make you battle worthwhile, i.e. get enough points to upgrade something, you’ll need to be spending at least 5 minutes in a single wave. These types of games are better suited to short and sharp wave combat, but it seems that Fantashooting wants you to have each play session last for a fair amount of time. Combine the fact that levelling takes a while and combat’s pretty dull and it’s hard to get too excited by Fantashooting.

Fantashooting is packed with content and works well. It’s just not that combat’s not exciting and different enemies or characters don’t result in different challenges or strategies.