#Ultionus a tale of petty revenge skin#

That much, the developers accomplished on their own. Ultionus: A Tale of Petty Revenge is a slow paced run and gun game with awesome 16-bit-esque graphics, featuring large, colourful sprites and vibrant backdrops and some pretty fantastic tunes which hearken back to the best of the early 90s PC adventure scores. It'd be one thing if our heroine was the only element lifted from Phantis, but it's not. Where do inspirations leave off and rip-offs take over? Who’s to say? Then I read up on the game and came to find out that the suit was copied wholesale along with a bunch of other design elements from Game Over II (aka Phantis) a 1987 PC title that ‘inspired’ the developer.

#Ultionus a tale of petty revenge skin#

And they got me to thinking - I get that using sex to sell games isn’t anything new (although perhaps doing so in a retro styled 2D platformer kind of is - why this particular design? The buxom blonde with skin tight violet one-piece bodysuit with the thong back. They’re the first things you see, and they're barely contained by purple spandex.

With the ridiculous premise out of the way, we can’t ignore the two elephants in the room. (To be fair, we don't know what he typed at her.) Was there no empire to tangle with? No planet-destroying weapon to tamper with? It must be peace time in the galaxy if cyber bullying is a call to arms. Serena, presumably an interstellar champion for good, traveled through space to give an online troll his comeuppance. The enemy? A douchebag prince who trolled her on Spacebook. Serena's spaceship gets shot down as she enters enemy airspace. Ultionus: A Tale of Petty Revenge (PC) review