Avoid
really bland designs, with chunks of text just thrown in there.
Not exact matches
It's
designed to stimulate our taste buds and can make
bland food taste
really good.
Unfortunately while it does show potential, the disappointing boss fights, confusing level
design and
bland environment
really dampens it as a whole.
The boards and
design of the game felt
really bland, although a lot of the minigames were pretty fun.
While not animated by hand, the cel - shaded graphics produce a reasonable enough facsimile of the look of the show with a few dropped polygons here and there, making some characters look a little
bland since there wasn't
really much in their
design to begin with.
The sound
design of this game however is
really bland and there's not much good about it.
The variety in art
design is something I
really appreciated as a lot of shooters tend to focus on somewhat
bland, military style environments or simple space station backdrops, but the gorgeous landscapes, cloudy skies and installations of Ikaruga all look and feel unique and are quite lovely at times.
The later games in particular had a weird combination of great graphics, extremely
bland level
design,
really crappy boss fights, and long, excessively difficult platforming sections.
Despite the choice of premium materials, the phone still has a somewhat
bland look, failing to
really differentiate itself from other standard rectangular slab
designs on the market.