Graceful Explosion Machine

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  • Summary: Skillfully pilot the Graceful Explosion Machine, a fighter ship armed with a ludicrously overpowered quad-weapon array! Lost in deep space, you'll shoot, dash and combo your way through jewel-hued alien worlds, fighting crystalline enemies to find a way home. The GEM fighter is the mostSkillfully pilot the Graceful Explosion Machine, a fighter ship armed with a ludicrously overpowered quad-weapon array! Lost in deep space, you'll shoot, dash and combo your way through jewel-hued alien worlds, fighting crystalline enemies to find a way home. The GEM fighter is the most advanced single pilot fighter in the galaxy, offering precise controls, nimble movement, and devastating firepower.

    -A blisteringly intense side-scrolling arcade shooter experience
    -The quad-weapon array gives the player four unique and devastatingly powerful weapons at all times
    -30+ levels across 4 unique worlds
    -Visuals bursting with vibrant color, bold lines, and geometric enemy designs
    -Analogue and digital synthesizer driven soundtrack
    -Extensive ranking and stats for each level encourages replay to perfect the game's combo systems
    -Score attack mode: a finely-tuned experience for wracking up big scores!    … Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Digitally Downloaded
    Aug 30, 2017
    90
    Graceful Explosion Machine is simple, pure arcade fun, with a level of polish and attention to detail in the design that’s rarely seen. It’s the sort of game that you can pick up for a quick 5 minute session, and then find yourself still playing hours later.
  2. COGconnected
    Aug 11, 2017
    88
    In a time where some of the best and worst titles sell for 50 or 60 dollars, this is some of the most fun I’ve had in a while and all for a minimal hit to your wallet.
  3. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Sep 7, 2017
    80
    This is a satisfying shoot-'em-up. It won't grip you for hours on end, but its combat will keep you dipping back in occasionally to blast your friends off the leaderboards. [Oct 2017, p.87]
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  4. Video Chums
    Aug 16, 2017
    72
    Graceful Explosion Machine boasts exciting and frantic shooting action, colorful visuals, and a well implemented combo scoring system. However, it's dragged down somewhat by a lack of creative level design and too many things happening onscreen at once. That being said, it's still a generally refined and overall enjoyable shooter.
  5. PlayStation Country
    Jan 15, 2018
    70
    Graceful Explosion Machine is a cerebral shoot 'em up that offers some good action but isn't as exciting, varied or dynamic as its best contemporaries.
  6. GameCritics
    Sep 11, 2017
    70
    Overall, Graceful Explosion Machine is an amusing rainbow of geometric bombast, suffering slightly from repetitive gameplay. However, it hits the spot for those who want to turn off their brains, enjoy some colorful chaos and rack up a huge combo, and there’s certainly nothing wrong with that.
  7. TheSixthAxis
    Aug 7, 2017
    50
    There is absolutely nothing wrong with Graceful Explosion Machine, and if you enjoy chasing high scores then it will provide you with a decent challenge. For the the rest of us, it’s a dinky little shooter that you can complete in a couple of hours and will forget about in half that time.

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