Melbius

By: Derek Yu

On: November 4th, 2008

Arma Eater is hands-down one of my favorite artists, so finding this game on his site was a nice surprise, and I will eagerly and unabashedly take this opportunity to introduce you to his artwork. Melbius, which is on the front page of his website, is a horizontal-scrolling shoot ’em up starring Melby, a character from one of his upcoming projects. In the game you can collect and switch between one of four weapons, which charge over time.

To be honest, what I’ve played of the game thus far is slightly underwhelming. Not bad, by any means, but nothing special, in my opinion. That eyeball/crab monster is pretty awesome, though!

Posted in Browser Games, Doujin, Shoot-em-ups | Tags: ArmaEater

undertech

May not be le original, but it’s well executed, and that pleases me to no end.
http://0xdeadc0de.org/ Eclipse

plays nicely but the graphics is indeed the worst part
Gainsworth

Oh. I was wondering what happened to his site – the old one kinda disappeared. Thanks for the update.

Game’s ok, nothing special. Should at least LOOK nicer. Or be a little more unsettling.

Also, wow, front page is working.
Arvind

Hi Derek,

Man! Just how do you keep coming up with such stuff on the Interweb? Share us your bookmarks.

Thanks,
Arvind.
Stwelin

All i see is a diagram of the game keys, no place for a download or anything… ?
Al King

Stwelin, it’s a Flash game, embedded directly above the diagram of game keys.
cactus

I enjoyed it. Nice weapons.
Noah

You need to use the link sectionon the Arma Eater site boys and girls… It will blow your tops. Surfing the japanese illustrator links web is a real treat. Every artist usually has about10 – 50 links http://www.abukas.com/bukuma.html
TheSilentOne

liked it, but just used the green gun the whole time. :P
policedanceclub

I think it has awesome weird graphics.
Vallen

Reminds me of Sector Z for the NES.
iosomewhere

With some Gradius + Slamandar Level Design.Overall..nice !
Teknogames

It was kinda fun but I just had no incentive to keep playing. Maybe if hte enemies were different in level 2