Reception
| Reception | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 83% |
| Metacritic | 83/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| 1UP.com | A |
| The A.V. Club | A– |
| GameSpot | 8.0/10 |
| IGN | 7.9/10 |
| PSM3 | 79/100 |
Reviews for Everyday Shooter have been generally positive, with praise for its creative music, graphic style, and variety of gameplay. A review from 1UP.com concludes, "Everyday Shooter succeeds wildly as an engaging shooter for the art-house crowd, and a creative change of pace for the hardcore-shooter crowd." Some critics pointed out similarities to the game Rez, while The A.V. Club pointed out homages to classic arcade games such as Centipede, Robotron 2084, and Time Pilot.
Many publications have cited the game's difficulty as a source of frustration, though some have pointed out that the game's unlocking system can ease the process of getting through "Normal Play" (or, that it can be bypassed altogether by unlocking songs in "Single Play"). IGN also criticized the method of point-collecting: Points in Everyday Shooter must be physically collected by the player in the brief amount of time after they appear or else they'll quickly fade away. In IGN's review, it was noted that "flying over all the points is far less effective than it should be, since zipping through a huge clump of them will often yield only a few actual pick-ups."
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