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"Physical Layer" is a top-down gun shooting game in which you control a "cute" agent disguised as a high school girl and attempt to infiltrate an enemy base by clearing stages. Use special skills such as "flip" and "object throwing" and choose the right weapon to overcome stages with ease! The appeal of this game is that it is a gun shooting game, but also has a puzzle element that allows you to instantly find the optimal solution. You can also unlock agent costumes by meeting certain conditions. Utilize three powerful abilities to overcome a total of 240 stages, filled with a variety of enemies and challenges. Aim to clear the game with your favorite agent!

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"Physical Layer" was released back in 2023 by the student-led group at RaStar Studio (developer) and Phoenixx Inc. (publisher) and created with the Unity engine. As a small and untested Doujin outlet, I didn't exactly have high expectations, but Physical Layer takes its simple premise and delivers an engaging and accessible top-down shooter with fun mechanics and various gimmicks that ease players into the mix, especially for a game that spent a very modest six months in development. As the blurb alludes to, part of the game's appeal is that while it is action first and foremost, it develops a strong puzzle-solving component as you progress as the player has three core special abilities: Reversing, Throwing and Dashing. As the nameless (?) high school super agent, you can tap into telekinesis to slow down bullets and reverse the polarity of close incoming attacks, throw objects and dash through bullets to avoid harm. You can also lock on to enemies, unlock different guns with different stats and attack patterns as well as new outfits and choose a method that suits your play style.

Where things get interesting is that the game adds enemy tracking in the form of a visual scope and positive / negative attacks (think Ikaruga) to switch things up, which requires you to sometimes think quick on your feet and adds some stealth elements as well. While there are 24 main zones, each zone is essentially a series of single-screen skirmishes that ends with a minor boss battle. While most of them are pretty easy on their own, the game incentivizes clearing stages in "Two Shot" and "One Shot" mode, which is tough when you've got to contend with shields, explosive containers, drones, tanks, barricades, polarity switching zones, positive / negative fields, infiltration tweaks, turrets and more. If at first you don't succeed, try again.

The game handles well and has serviceable audio / visuals with a fairly modest $9 pricetag. For RaStar's first game, I think they did pretty well and I wouldn't mind seeing more from them. This is a video of the game in action. You can get it at:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/22...

Enjoy.

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