Frenetic Plus

By: Derek Yu

On: August 7th, 2007

Frenetic Plus is a solid 2D/3D hybrid shooter with some RPG elements to it. In between missions where you scoot around a 3D landscape killing things you can upgrade your various suits and learn more about the story.

So far I’m not entirely impressed. The game is put together and I like the atmosphere and graphics, but the missions are repetitive and fairly slow moving. And with all the “C.L.A.Y.” I’m earning killing baddies, I’m just not finding any reason to spend it yet.

There are the trappings of something cool here… I just hope it gets better as you get further into it.

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Posted in Action, Freeware, Windows

Neon

worth download?
HandCraftedRadio

It seems like it should be for the snes because of the 3d style.
http://isadorblog.blogspot.com Isador21

SNES roks, I need to try that.
Eudaimon

If you take a look at a bit of the rest of the author’s site, he made an earlier version of this game with no story, which also replaces “C.L.A.Y.” with a score, making it a bit more like an arcade game. You can find it on this page, listed as “Frenetic v1.0”:

http://fenixblade.allegronetwork.com/sn_main.htm

I think it’s pretty fun, especially because I personally wasn’t getting into the story and money systems of Plus.
shinygerbil

**”The game is put together”**

Who knew? O_O
Derek

Not a typo.
Xander

Sounds like a tech project I made for my final year of school.

“…You’re handing in four pieces of wood”

“…I could put them together”

“…you fail”

Yeah, it feels like I’m playing a game that doesn’t seem to realise what year it is. It’s just filled with archaisms, like the enemy sprites that aren’t animated beyond moving around the screen, or the main suit which simply wiggles it’s legs around. Currently, it just doesn’t feel fun enough, though I’ll definitely give it another try when it’s complete… it’s just incomplete it’s a very underwhelming experience.
King-N

“Yeah, it feels like Iâ€™m playing a game that doesnâ€™t seem to realise what year it is.”

I think that may be the Idea, you know, a retro feel.
ugh

retro? in indy gaming!?
Gr.Viper

Well, it looks retro-ish even for indy gaming.. And “dull, tedious, stuffy, boring and desperately dull”(c). It doesn’t change as you progress – same gameplay, only damage figures are going up.
Turned out I had this thing on my hard drive since November. I wonder when it was really released.
pkt-zer0

HotU (http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?gameid=4825) says 2004.

I was actually looking for this very game, for some reason. Forgot what the reason was, though.
http://isadorblog.blogspot.com Isador21

Nothing wrong with a game looking retro, I find the graphical style very pleasing, it’s just that the controls are like …
>_<
Zarquon The Mighty

You were looking for it for the music. The music rocks!