Welcome to our review of Blink: Rogues, a top-down shooter that brings a lot of tactics to the table.
Blink: Rogues is a fast-paced top-down shooter that brings combat tactics, sharp reflexes, and multi-lane combat under the same roof. Fire rockets, shotgun or railgun, flip your ship, jump to the other lane and chase the perfect score. Steal the opponent’s power-ups or simply frag him!
Plays like a Shmup, feels like a Deathmatch! Engage in short and intense matches, flip your ship, teleport to the enemy lane, steal their loot, or simply frag for points! Own your opponent in PVP/Splitscreen!
PVP: Challenge your friends and find out who’s best by playing a 5 minutes Blink duel. Jump and frag your opponent, steal his drops, deny his kills and achieve victory by finishing the fight with the better score.
Story Mode: Put your skills to the test and play through Blink’s increasingly difficult campaign mode. Fight your way through the hand-crafted enemy waves and reach the maximum star rating for each and every level.
Survival: So you have finished the story mode, got a few stars, even. But can you complete all the missions, one after the other, with only one ship?
Co-op: You and a friend are trying to destroy increasingly difficult and increasingly faster waves of enemies. Each enemy that escapes will make you lose a bit of HP. How long can you last with only three ships?
Versus AI: Top your game by playing our well-trained AI buddy. Set the difficulty tier to your liking and master the game one step at a time.
Blink: Rogues is one of those games that you expect to be a dud but they surprise you a lot. I have been playing a few top-down shooters on mobile lately and I just loved being able to play one without touch controls for once. I was in for a surprise when I started playing Blink: Rogues as it is basically two playing fields at once.
Left and Right, but also top to bottom, a lot of tactical choices need to be made in order to really get through a level and this might be the most frustrating part, getting stars at first is rather hard, you need those in order to proceed to the next level. While I would not consider the game a bullet hell game, the tactics will make you feel like it is one. To my delight, I did get used to the controls quite quickly and was able to flip smoothly to destroy everything on both sides of the playing side.
While Blink: Rogues might be a harder one to get used to, I do recommend its purchase as this game is smart in its approach of a “been there, done that” genre. With all the garbage that is available on mobile, this sure felt like a breath of fresh air again in the genre.
In conclusion, a game that was surprisingly and unexpectedly fun!
