Necro Gaia Is A Game Where You Play As Earth
By Nathan Grayson on July 3rd, 2012 at 10:00 am.
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Oh hey, five meteors that are bigger than the sun. Welp, guess it's the apocalypse, then.
Well, OK, technically you’re an “Earth-like planet” called Terra – a name which, since the dawn of time, has translated to “Earth, but we don’t want to call it that for some reason.” Totally-Not-Earth’s sun has decided to pack its proverbial bags (read: fire, because that is the only thing the sun owns) and relocate to another galaxy, so our largely inhabitable landmass goes along for the ride. And thus begins a wacky road comedy with appearances by the likes of Zack Galifinakis and Mercury.
OK, actually no, Necro Gaia‘s an impressively challenging arcade-y experience where the only thing you can directly control is the speed of your orbit. All the while, meteors, stars, and the like attempt to pummel your puny planet, but you can stave them off by briefly summoning other planets – one of which has a lighting shield, another fireballs, another ice blasts, etc. And then you eventually fight a giant space snake. It’s tough but fun, and you can download it for free here. Thanks, Indie Game Magazine.
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Here’s one from the ‘fifteen minutes of fun’ desk to help liven up a dreary, post-storm Sunday morning. Necro Gaia is a short, single-screen arcade shooter with a whole bunch of unique ideas. Playing as the Earth, you’re tasked with defending yourself as you hurtle through space to a new galaxy. Unfortunately, you’re being pursued by the evil cosmic serpent Necro Gaia.
So, being a planet, you don’t actually have the power to do much, other than orbit the sun, which you do. Pressing the space bar makes you orbit faster, and enemies that are caught in your shadow are slowed and weakened, but still undamaged. To defend yourself, you need to gather magical space-crystals, and use them to summon other planets to defend yourself with. Weird enough concept yet?
So, you orbit around the sun, grabbing green crystals. You then drag and drop five different kinds of defensive planets on-screen. Some of them shoot in the direction of your mouse cursor, one attracts crystals from across the screen, and the most expensive one generates extra health if you’ve taken a few hits. The planets are destroyed if hit by any enemy, though, and fade out after a while anyway, so you’re constantly juggling your summoning and gem-collecting.
The game continues until you’ve faced down and defeated Necro Gaia itself, although I do wish there was some kind of infinite survival mode. It really doesn’t make that much sense unless you play it yourself, really. So do so – it’s an 8mb download for Windows, and a cute little bit of faux-8-bit arcade gaming.
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