GG Series Z-ONE review – Extra Guy
The GG Series branding on Nintendo’s DSiWare service usually represents a decent deal. For the paltry sum of two dollars you can get your hands on a bite-sized piece of gaming. Ninja Karakuri Den was a decent enough platformer with a hook unique enough to help hide its ultimately shallow nature. Z-ONE is not quite as fortunate, especially when other two dollar shooters are so much better.
Z-ONE, at its heart, is so a basic a shooter that it’s almost insulting. You fly through the miniature stages one at a time, each lasting no more than thirty seconds, destroying enemies until you reach the end. You’re given two lives to work with, and if you die you can simply continue at the beginning of the last stage you reached. Your only penalty is a big fat zero on the score board. Truth is, you can pretty much crash your way through this game.
