Every once in a while a game comes along that makes you play and play and play and play, until your eye's begin to bleed and your hands cramp up in agony. Who's That Flying, from Mediatonic is one of those games. You are the invincible protector of Earth, all round good guy, super cool, with awesome talent and flair, steely eyed and toting a HYPER-POWERED LASER ARM, which must be really cool as it's in capitals. However, you are up in front of the Galactic Council, protectors from each of the planets, accused of gross incompetence and a severe case of showboating for a magazine and to top it off, you have to defend Earth against the Doom Beasts, black creatures that are all mouth and who like nothing more than to tuck into a five course belly buster of Earth's most beloved cities.
Pocket Gamer: Back in the day, adrenalin junkies could count on intense twitch shooters.
Arcades were filled with fast-paced, explosion-packed shooters – the kind with so many bullets onscreen that you’d be lucky to find an empty space to hide. They were a dime a dozen, but the classic shooter seems to have died with the arcades themselves.
TouchArcade: Sony’s half-hearted effort to get into the low-cost digital downloads space with the PSP Minis initiative has been disastrous. Its lead platform has been floundering at retail, and I’ve heard from several sources that its support structure is hobbled. That blows for everyone involved, but there is reason to celebrate Minis: good games have, in fact, made it to release. One of those being the ostentatious 2D, shoot-‘em-up called “Who’s That Flying!?”
Gamesradar: It’s rather surprising how the iPhone app store has amassed a good amount of solid, old-school-styled shooters. One wouldn’t think the touch-screen would be an ideal form of control for these games, but Who’s That Flying?! Has finely tuned controls that give you pinpoint accuracy without obscuring your vision, (you may even have to turn the sensitivity down on iPhone). It’s a scrolling shooter in the vein of numerous classics of years gone by, but it adds several interesting twists on established genre formulas – including invincibility and jokes.
