Excellent Space Giraffe Retrospective

[Mat]

Christian Donlan writes about Space Giraffe!
With TxK being Vita exclusive, hopefully this'll generate some new Steam traffic for Llamasoft.

[jawafour]

It is a terrific read. The game did come across as a little divisive at the time, with opinion varying wildly. The author seems to really 'get' the gameplay elements. I'm ashamed that I haven't played Space Giraffe even though I own a 360; I'll put this right.

[Yak]

it's funny, even when I was getting my head kicked in about SG back in the day I always believed that in a few years it'd be looked back on and remembered as something that was significant and far from "2/10" territory. It's nice to see that happen. In fact TxK seems to have brought quite a bit of SG love out in people judging by some comments I've seen.

[Little stoned kiwi]

I happened to have fired up SG on the 360 this morning, I haven't for ages. Fifteen minutes later I was expressing my frustration by screaming, 'Minter, you cunt!'

Take that as you will.

[gilesgoat]

I two things will always remain true about SG

1. it was NOT shit and it was NOT made to be shit there's been A LOT of work into it

2. in 30 years time there will be still people talking about it

What is also weird/interesting is that .. "a lot of things" turned out to be NOT what they were supposed to be .. in the long term quite a few things did not live up to the promise of what they should have been ..

BUT most important I think Llamasoft always kept the promise of doing what it does, and improve it

[Deckard]

Amazing zone game - as a pro robotron, star gate and defender player I tell you now it's up there with the best - an absolute classic and surely about time for some sort of follow on.......

[ozzzy189]

One of the best games I've ever played. I fired it up on my son's xbox the other day, still awesome, I'm on ps4 now, but I'll probably have a play when everyone is out. Please make a ps4 version guys, even a straight port, it's bloody amazing.

[Dave]

Please make a ps4 version guys, even a straight port, it's bloody amazing.

You can always grab it on Steam if you have a Windows box with a semi-decent video card:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/27800/

[Mayhem]

I never got on with SG, but I'd never describe it as a crap game, it just wasn't my cup of tea. Well aware it was right up the alley of a lot of other people...

[Mat]

Miracle of miracles, the comments section so far has been nothing but praise

[PVB]

Nice to see.

Although they say this:

If you're coming straight from Dave Theurer's classic or one of Minter's loving reimaginings -

As if there's been several Llamasoft web shooters before TxK. There's only been two. I've seen other reviews of TxK say the same thing.

[fog]

Nice to see.

Although they say this:

If you're coming straight from Dave Theurer's classic or one of Minter's loving reimaginings -

As if there's been several Llamasoft web shooters before TxK. There's only been two. I've seen other reviews of TxK say the same thing.

3 shirley? T2000, T3000 & Space Giraffe?

[Arnie]

Christian Donlan writes about Space Giraffe!
With TxK being Vita exclusive, hopefully this'll generate some new Steam traffic for Llamasoft.

Good review.
I don't have a vita but I do have SG on my PC. Lovely gfx and sound. I like the fact that you have to work hard at it because it means I'll probably never get bored of it. I can always start it up and enjoy a game. Not like games you just shoot your way through and forget, quickly moving on to the next game.

I also like GridRunner Revolution on the PC. Again lots of nice colours, sounds and danger all around. SG is better though

Arnie

[PVB]

Nice to see.

Although they say this:

If you're coming straight from Dave Theurer's classic or one of Minter's loving reimaginings -

As if there's been several Llamasoft web shooters before TxK. There's only been two. I've seen other reviews of TxK say the same thing.

3 shirley? T2000, T3000 & Space Giraffe?

Doh!

[Markie]

I hope that this blast of Llamasoft with shift a few more IOS downloads too ...